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2 of the Top 20 Hardest Colleges to Get Into are in Pennsylvania

If you got into one of these colleges on the list pat yourself on the back because they were just named the Hardest Colleges in America to Get Into in…

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If you got into one of these colleges on the list pat yourself on the back because they were just named the Hardest Colleges in America to Get Into in 2023 by Niche.

If one of these colleges or universities is your dream school don't let this list deter you from applying!

Niche used The acceptance rates and SAT/ACT test score data from the U.S. Department of Education to determine the rankings. A large percentage (80%) of the ranking was based on acceptance rate.

It doesn't really come as a shock that the eight ivy league institutions made the cut as these are often viewed as the most prestigious of universities.

So where did they fall on the list? And where did the two that reside in our state land? Check out the top twenty hardest colleges list below:

20. Cornell University - Ithaca, NY

19. Vanderbilt University - Nashville, TN

18. John Hopkins University - Baltimore, MD

17. Bowdoin College - Brunswick, ME

16. Swarthmore College - Swarthmore, PA

15. Rice University - Houston, TX

14. Pomona College - Claremont, CA

13. Dartmouth College - Hanover, NH

12. Northwestern University - Evanston, IL

11. University of Pennsylvania - Philadelphia, PA

10. Brown University - Providence, RI

9. Duke University - Durham, NC

8. Columbia University - New York, NY

7. University of Chicago - Chicago, IL

6. Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Cambridge, MA

5. Yale University - New Haven, CT

California Institute of Technology - Pasadena, CA

3. Princeton University - Princeton, NJ

2. Stanford University - Stanford, CA

1. Harvard University - Cambridge, MA