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2026 Top College Acceptances

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Acceptances to the nation’s top colleges and universities

2 Students accepted to Harvard
9 Acceptances to Penn
3 Students accepted to Duke
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RANK* UNIVERSITY 2026
#1 Princeton University 1
#2 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 6
#3 Harvard University 2
#4 Stanford University 5
#4 Yale University 2
#6 University of Chicago 6
#7 Johns Hopkins University 8
#7 Northwestern University 6
#7 University of Pennsylvania 9
#7 Duke 3
#12 Cornell University 16
#13 Brown University 7
#13 Dartmouth College 1
#15 Columbia University 7
#15 University of California, Berkeley 13
#17 Rice University 12
#17 Vanderbilt University 9
#17 University of California, Los Angeles 18
#20 Carnegie Mellon University 16
#20 University of Notre Dame 16
#20 Washington University in St. Louis 8
#20 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 42
#24 Emory University 23
#24 Georgetown University 5
#26 University of Virginia 12
RANK* UNIVERSITY 2026
#26 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 24
#28 University of Southern California 19
#29 University of California, San Diego 18
#30 The University of Texas at Austin 12
#30 University of Florida 217
#32 Georgia Institute of Technology 13
#32 New York University 34
#32 University of California, Davis 29
#32 University of California, Irvine 19
#36 Boston College 9
#36 Tufts University 3
#36 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 24
#36 University of Wisconsin, Madison 17
#40 University of California, Santa Barbara 24
#41 The Ohio State University 44
#42 Boston University 32
#42 University of Maryland, College Park 42
#42 University of Washington 16
#42 Rutgers University, New Brunswick 32
#46 Lehigh University  7
#46 Northeastern University 105
#46 University of Georgia 24
#46 University of Rochester 13
#46 Purdue University 37
#51 Florida State University 243
 

* Rankings are based on Top 50 institutions from U.S. News and World's Report's National Universities

 

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