Today’s college acceptance rates

It’s that time of year again when the acceptances and rejections start rolling in; let’s hope they are mostly acceptances. With the number of students going to college at an all time high and continuing to increase, the percentage of acceptances is steadily decreasing. It is now harder than ever to get into the school of your dreams. Here’s a look by the numbers of the acceptance rates of some of the most prestigious colleges.

Stanford: 5%

Princeton: 7%

Harvard: 5.9%

Brown: 9.5%

Yale: 6.3%

Northwestern: 12.9%

CAL: 16.9%

UCLA: 17.3%

UC Davis: 40%

UC Santa Barbara: 36.1%

UC Santa Cruz: 57%

UC Irvine: 38.7%

UC Riverside: 58%

UC Merced: 76%

NYU: 31%

Columbia: 6.1%

American University: 35%

Georgetown: 16.4%