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Rounding out the top five most competitive schools are Stanford University, with a 7.1 percent acceptance rate; Yale University, at 7.4 percent, and Princeton University, 8.4 percent. Below, see the acceptance rates of 17 highly selective colleges.We'll be updating this slideshow as more numbers come in.arvard University saw its acceptance rate drop to an all-time low of 6.2 percent from a record-setting pool of 35,000 applicants. Columbia University, which saw its applicant pool balloon by 32 percent this year, accepted a mere 6.4 percent of prospective students.