These are 20 universities with low acceptance rates for 2008. Some of these are record rates such as Harvard’s 7.1%.
Harvard University – 7.1%
Yale University – 8.3%
Princeton University – 9.5%
Stanford University – 9.5%
Columbia University – 10%
Massachusetts Institute of Technology – 12%
Dartmouth University – 13.2%
Brown University – 13.3%
Washington and Lee – 15%
Swarthmore University – 15%
University of Pennsylvania – 16.4%
Bowdoin University – 18%
Georgetown University – 18%
Duke University – 19%
University of Southern California – 21%
University of California, Berkeley – 21.5%
University of California, Los Angeles – 22.1%
Cornell University – 22.9%
Vanderbilt University – 23.1%
New York University – 24%