The hardest colleges to get into for 2023, ranked

By Natasha Dado
Published: 03:00 PM August 19, 2021
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What's the hardest college to get into right now?

What's the hardest college to get into right now?

Here's an in-depth look at Niche's 2023 list of the hardest colleges to get into in America. 

Niche, which runs a ranking and review website, used several criteria, including acceptance rates, standardized test scores and other factors. (As a result, some colleges in this list have the same acceptance rate but different overall rankings.)

Not surprisingly, all eight Ivy League schools made the list — but some other colleges on the list are tougher to get into than Ivy League schools, according to Niche's data. 

Here is a look at Niche's 50 toughest colleges to get into and the competitive acceptance rates that make them so prestigious.