Top Tier Admissions
Rice University, a private research university in Houston, Texas, anchors undergraduate life in a residential college system that houses students for all four years and maintains a roughly 6-to-1 student-faculty ratio. The university admitted 2,984 of 38,603 applicants to the Class of 2030 for an overall acceptance rate of 7.7%, according to the Rice Thresher. […]
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, ranks No. 2 among national universities and No. 1 for undergraduate engineering, according to U.S. News & World Report 2026 Best Colleges rankings. For the Class of 2030, MIT admitted 1,299 of 28,349 applicants for an overall acceptance rate of 4.58% — a slight […]
Georgia Tech, a public research university in Atlanta long considered both a “New Ivy” and a “Public Ivy,” admitted 8,715 students to the Class of 2030 from a record 67,985 first-year applications—an overall acceptance rate of 12.8%, according to the university’s Office of Undergraduate Admission. That figure caps a five-year stretch in which Georgia Tech’s […]
Duke University, located in Durham, North Carolina, is consistently ranked among the top 10 national universities and is widely regarded as one of the Southern Ivies. For the Class of 2030, Duke received a record-high 61,935 applications and admitted 2,930 students for an overall acceptance rate of 4.7%, holding near last year’s all-time low, according […]
Vanderbilt University, a private research university in Nashville, Tennessee, is distinctive among elite institutions for housing four undergraduate schools under a single application. The university admitted just 2.8% of Regular Decision applicants to the Class of 2030, a record low, down from 3.3% the prior cycle, according to the Vanderbilt Hustler. Vanderbilt Acceptance Rate: Class […]
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