These GA Colleges Among Hardest To Get Into: See List

GEORGIA — The hardest Georgia college to get into is Emory University in Atlanta, according to a recent ranking that looks at admission rates and other factors to determine exclusivity.

Georgia has six colleges on the 2025 Hardest Colleges To Get Into list from Niche, whose rankings focus on education and the best places to live.

Those schools and their acceptance rates are:

• Emory University, No. 35, Atlanta (11 percent acceptance): also ninth for Best Professors in America; A+ overall grade
• Georgia Institute of Technology, No. 59, Atlanta (17 percent acceptance): also fourth for Top Public Universities in America; A+ overall grade
• Point University, No. 79, West Point (24 percent acceptance): B- overall grade
• Spelman College, No. 93, Atlanta (28 percent acceptance): also fourth in Best HBCU Schools in America; B+ overall grade
• Thomas University, unranked, Thomasville (46 percent acceptance): also ninth in Best Colleges in Georgia; B overall grade
• Andrew College, unranked, Cuthbert (50 percent acceptance): B- overall grade

Niche said ACT and SAT scores have been removed in this year’s rankings “to reflect a general de-emphasis on test scores in the college admissions process.”

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Nationally, the hardest schools to get into are:

1. Minerva University, San Francisco (1 percent)
2. California Institute of Technology, Pasadena (3 percent),
3. Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (3 percent)
4. Stanford University, Stanford, California (4 percent)
5. Columbia University, New York City (4 percent)
6. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge (4 percent)
7. Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut (5 percent)
8. Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island (5 percent)
9. University of Chicago (5 percent)
10. Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey (6 percent)
11. Duke University, Durham, North Carolina (6 percent)
12. Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire (6 percent)
13. University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (7 percent)
14. Vanderbilt University, Nashville (7 percent)
15. Northeastern University, Boston (7 percent)
16. Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania (7 percent)
17. Pomona College, Claremont, California (7 percent)
18. Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois (7 percent)
19. Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore (7 percent)
20. Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts (7 percent)

Three of those schools — Johns Hopkins University, Northwestern University and Vanderbilt University — are what Forbes calls “the New Ivies,” 20 public and private schools that offer good job prospects to graduates as employers turn away from the nation’s oldest and most venerable schools.

• Related: Forbes Names 20 Colleges ‘New Ivies,’ Says Employers Prefer Them