In 1999, Vanderbilt received under 10,000 applications and sported an acceptance rate of 61%. The turn of the millennium saw annual incremental increases in selectivity that led to Vandy’s acceptance rate hitting an all-time low…

Like many other elite private colleges, Johns Hopkins University has fared quite well in higher education’s selectivity arms race since the start of the present millennium. As the Baltimore Sun reported back in 1996, the…

Houston, Texas is home to one of the nation’s finest private research institutions—Rice University. No matter how you measure Rice’s performance, this school of roughly 4,000 undergraduates comes out shining bright. The university is consistently…

NYU has a reputation for world-class academics with an international flair. In fact, the 26,000 undergraduates situated in Greenwich Village include the highest number of international students of any school in the U.S. as well…

When you look at a list of the lowest college acceptance rates in the country and your dream school occupies the number one position, this is hardly cause for celebration. Stanford University, with its 4.3%…