This College Is The Hardest Of The Forbes ‘New Ivies’ To Get Into

Forbes released its “New Ivies” list Tuesday, a compendium of 20 public and private universities that are outpacing Ivy League schools in the eyes of employers.

They are all top-tier schools that only accept the best applicants with high SAT scores. And even then, acceptance rates can vary. Of the 20 schools, Vanderbilt University, a private college in Nashville, admits only 6 percent of applicants. The University of Pittsburgh, a public school, has the highest acceptance rate of 50 percent.

Among public universities, only about 14 percent of applicants get into the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York. Among non-military schools, Georgia Institute of Technology-Atlanta has an acceptance rate of 16 percent.

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Forbes said a survey of its C-suite executives showed growing disillusionment with Ivy League graduates as they sought to fill positions before President Donald Trump began an assault on the nation’s oldest and most venerable schools over their DEI — diversity, equity and inclusion — policies.

Here’s the list of the New Ivies, along with their acceptance rates:

Public Institutions

• Georgia Institute of Technology-Atlanta campus (16 percent)
• Purdue University-West Lafayette (Indiana) campus (50 percent)
• University of Texas at Austin (29 percent)
• United States Military Academy. West Point, New York (14 percent)
• University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (44 percent)
• University of Michigan-Ann Arbor (18 percent)
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (19 percent)
• University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (50 percent)
• University of Virginia-Charlottesville (17 percent)
• William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia (33 percent)

Private Institutions

• Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh (11 percent)
• Emory University, Atlanta (11 percent)
• Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. (13 percent)
• Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore (8 percent)
• Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois (7 percent)
• Rice University, Houston (8 percent)
• Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts (10 percent)
• University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana (12 percent)
• Vanderbilt University, Nashville (6 percent)
• Washington University in St. Louis (12 percent)

According to Forbes, about 37 percent of 380 executives surveyed said they were less likely than they were five years ago to hire an Ivy League graduate, and 2 percent said outright they would never hire a graduate from the “original eight” schools. They cited issues with attitude and lack of humility among graduates of those schools, Forbes said.

“These colleges are highly selective—applicants have a one in seven chance, or slimmer, to gain admission to one of the private New Ivies, and a 50% chance or less to enroll at one of the 10 mostly large public universities,” Forbes said on its website. “And, they accept the best—the private New Ivies admit students with a median SAT score of 1530—slightly higher than the nation’s largest Ivy, Cornell University, which has a median SAT score of 1520. The public universities, which educate a combined 396,000 students, admit students with a median SAT score of 1410.