Anonymous
Post 05/12/2026 23:19     Subject: Prestigious but High Acceptance Rate Schools?
The answer to this question is an easy exercise. Let X represent the acceptance rate that you consider to be high enough. Starting with Princeton at number 1, go down the U.S. News ranking until you find the first school (or first few) whose acceptance rate is higher than X. For example, if X is 15%, the answer is Michigan.
Anonymous
Post 05/12/2026 23:13     Subject: Prestigious but High Acceptance Rate Schools?
Mount Holyoke, Bryn Mawr, Bucknell, Skidmore, GW, Wesleyan, Oberlin, University of Rochester, Kenyon, Dickinson, Wake Forest
Anonymous
Post 05/12/2026 23:13     Subject: Prestigious but High Acceptance Rate Schools?
Anonymous wrote:TCU, Santa Clara University, Occidental, NYU.


NYU is an easy admit, nowadays?
Anonymous
Post 05/12/2026 23:10     Subject: Prestigious but High Acceptance Rate Schools?
Vassar’s acceptance rate is higher than that of most of its peers, recently at 21%.
Anonymous
Post 05/12/2026 23:09     Subject: Prestigious but High Acceptance Rate Schools?
TCU, Santa Clara University, Occidental, NYU.
Anonymous
Post 05/12/2026 22:59     Subject: Prestigious but High Acceptance Rate Schools?
Syracuse
Fordham
Trinity College
Anonymous
Post 05/12/2026 22:50     Subject: Prestigious but High Acceptance Rate Schools?
Anonymous wrote:UC Merced has a 90% acceptance rate, 9% yield, 49% 4 year graduation rate, pre-covid/test banned SAT

25%-50%-75%
990-1080-1180

It is the 25th ranked public college in the United States according to US News. That should be plenty prestigious. It is a better school than any New England public, including UMass, UConn, URI, UVM, UNH.


Um. You don't make a very good case for it. Clearly US News is very flawed
Anonymous
Post 05/12/2026 22:45     Subject: Prestigious but High Acceptance Rate Schools?
Anonymous wrote:someone started this thread a few days ago. Not prestigious... but respected or something like that. And responses were similarly mean.

In my opinion: Macalaster and Oberlin and Bryn Mawr. For state school Rutgers, UConn, and Delaware


So Prestigious but High Acceptance Rate and expensive?

Rutgers, UConn and Delaware are not prestigious by any stretch of the imagination
Anonymous
Post 05/12/2026 21:41     Subject: Prestigious but High Acceptance Rate Schools?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Trinity in Connecticut is old school preppy, has a pretty campus albeit it fenced in by the ghetto, allegedly has a great alumni network in NYC, and is practically open enrollment these days.


+1 lots of solid 2nd tier schools in New England New York like Union, HWS, Conn, or Skidmore

Also Catholics like Fordham, Fairfield, Scranton or Loyola(s)


Fairfield’s admit rate has plummeted.


That’s just yield protection
Anonymous
Post 05/12/2026 20:39     Subject: Prestigious but High Acceptance Rate Schools?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Seeking to make a list of schools that are generally well-known, respected, or have strong “name recognition” but are not ultra-selective.

I’ve heard Penn State and Purdue are two. What are others?


Most Midwestern flagships.

But they may make up for loose admissions standards by weeding many students out.


Agree with this.

Also, while not always high, plenty of top publics have in-state acceptance rates much higher than the single digit rates that generally come along with prestige.
Anonymous
Post 05/12/2026 20:37     Subject: Prestigious but High Acceptance Rate Schools?
STEM (e.g. CS, Physics) for UMD.
Anonymous
Post 05/12/2026 20:25     Subject: Prestigious but High Acceptance Rate Schools?
Bryn Mawr
Smith
Anonymous
Post 05/12/2026 19:21     Subject: Prestigious but High Acceptance Rate Schools?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Trinity in Connecticut is old school preppy, has a pretty campus albeit it fenced in by the ghetto, allegedly has a great alumni network in NYC, and is practically open enrollment these days.


+1 lots of solid 2nd tier schools in New England New York like Union, HWS, Conn, or Skidmore

Also Catholics like Fordham, Fairfield, Scranton or Loyola(s)


Fairfield’s admit rate has plummeted.
Anonymous
Post 05/12/2026 19:20     Subject: Re:Prestigious but High Acceptance Rate Schools?
University of Washington
Anonymous
Post 05/12/2026 19:19     Subject: Prestigious but High Acceptance Rate Schools?
Anonymous wrote:CWRU is on TIME’s top 25 Univ in the world recently and Forbes’ new private Ivy’s April 2026


I keep seeing this school on here and social media. Is Forbes the deal with recent popularity?