Curtis Institute of Music

Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 4.8 %

Juilliard School

Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 7.7 %

Harvard University

Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 9.2 %

Princeton University

Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 9.7 %

Yale University

Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 9.9 %

Stanford University

Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 10.3 %

Columbia University

Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 10.6 %

Cooper Union

Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 10.7 %

United States Naval Academy

Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 11.8 %

College of the Ozarks

Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 11.8 %

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 12.5 %

Brown University

Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 14.0 %

National-Louis University

Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 14.3 %

United States Military Academy

Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 15.0 %

Dartmouth College

Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 15.3 %

University of Pennsylvania

Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 16.0 %

Claremont McKenna College

Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 16.2 %

Pomona College

Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 16.3 %

California Institute of Technology

Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 16.9 %

Washington University in St. Louis

Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 17.3 %

United States Air Force Academy

Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 17.5 %

Amherst College

Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 17.6 %

Swarthmore College

Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 17.7 %

Williams College

Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 18.4 %

Brigham Young University--Hawaii

Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 18.9 %

Bowdoin College

Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 19.0 %

Middlebury College

Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 20.6 %

Georgetown University

Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 20.8 %

Cornell University

Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 21.4 %

Duke University

Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 23.0 %

University of California--Berkeley

Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 23.3 %

University of California--Los Angeles

Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 23.6 %

Crichton College

Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 24.1 %

Johns Hopkins University

Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 24.3 %

University of Notre Dame

Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 24.5 %

Bethune-Cookman University

Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 24.8 %

Rice University

Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 25.1 %

Haverford College

Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 25.1 %

University of Southern California

Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 25.3 %

Mississippi Valley State University

Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 25.4 %

Colgate University

Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 25.6 %

CUNY--Baruch College

Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 25.8 %

Pitzer College

Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 26.2 %

United States Merchant Marine Academy

Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 26.3 %

United States Coast Guard Academy

Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 26.5 %

Northwestern University

Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 26.8 %

Bard College

Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 27.1 %

SUNY--Purchase College

Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 27.1 %

Emory University

Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 27.2 %

Boston College

Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 27.3 %

Washington and Lee University

Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 27.4 %

Wesleyan University

Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 27.4 %

Tufts University

Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 27.5 %

Hamilton College

Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 27.7 %

San Francisco Art Institute

Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 27.9 %

Carnegie Mellon University

Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 28.0 %

Harvey Mudd College

Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 28.1 %

Davidson College

Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 28.2 %

Manhattan School of Music

Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 28.4 %

Vassar College

Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 28.6 %

Albany State University

Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 28.7 %

Barnard College

Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 28.8 %

Lake Erie College

Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 28.9 %

Delta State University

Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 29.2 %

Kenyon College

Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 29.2 %

Berea College

Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 29.3 %

Grambling State University

Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 29.5 %

Bates College

Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 29.6 %

Carleton College

Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 29.8 %

Bucknell University

Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 29.9 %

CUNY--Hunter College

Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 30.2 %

Philander Smith College

Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 30.3 %

Lane College

Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 30.3 %

Life University

Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 30.4 %

Webb Institute

Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 30.5 %

Rhode Island School of Design

Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 31.1 %

Oberlin College

Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 31.3 %

Edward Waters College

Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 31.3 %

CUNY--Lehman College

Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 31.6 %

Colby College

Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 31.8 %

Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical University

Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 31.8 %

Colorado College

Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 31.9 %

Lehigh University

Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 31.9 %

Berklee College of Music

Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 32.2 %

California Institute of the Arts

Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 32.3 %

Vanderbilt University

Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 32.8 %

Spelman College

Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 33.0 %

College of the Holy Cross

Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 33.0 %

Myers University

Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 33.3 %

College of William and Mary

Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 33.7 %

Morgan State University

Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 33.7 %

Trinity College

Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 34.2 %

Washington and Jefferson College

Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 34.3 %

Reed College

Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 34.3 %

Brandeis University

Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 34.4 %

Connecticut College

Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 34.5 %

Cleveland Institute of Music

Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 34.6 %

University of Chicago

Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 34.7 %

Pepperdine University

Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 34.8 %

University of North Carolina--Chapel Hill

Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 34.8 %