College Acceptances
College Acceptances

HBA College Acceptances From 2020 to 2025
Rankings from U.S. News and Forbes 2025
ELITE Universities (Top 30) Less than 15% Acceptance Rate
- Stanford
- Northwestern
- Dartmouth
- U.C.L.A.
- Emory
- U.S.C. (4 recent grads)
- UC Berkeley (6 recent grads)
- US San Diego
- University of Virginia
- New York University
- University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
- Clairemont McKenna
- Pomona
- Carnegie Mellon
- University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
- University of Waterloo (Canada)
- University of Edinburgh (U.K.)
Highly Competitive Universities (top 50)
- University of Illinois, Champagne-Urbana
- UC Santa Barbara
- Tufts
- UC Irvine
- Boston College
- UC San Diego
- UC Davis
- Rutgers – New Brunswick
- University of Maryland
- Northeastern
- Ohio State
- Santa Clara
- Syracuse
- University of Miami
- Purdue
- University of Washington
- Case Western Reserve
- Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
- American University
Competitive Universities (top 100)
- Colorado School of Mines
- SUNY Stony Brook
- TCU Texas Christian
- Gonzaga
- Loyola Marymount
- Johnson & Wales
- SUNY Stony Brook
- UC Riverside
- University of Iowa
- University of San Diego
- University of Colorado, Boulder
- University of Denver
- University of San Francisco
- University of Arizona
- UC Santa Cruz
- UC Merced
- Clemson
- Southern Christian University
- Fordham
- Pepperdine
- Stevens Institute of Technology
- George Washington
- Baylor
National Liberal Arts Colleges:
- Amherst (10% acceptance rate)
- Carleton College
- Colby
- Colgate (12% acceptance rate)
- Middlebury (10% acceptance rate)
- Scripps College
- Brandeis
Popular Schools:
- Arizona State
- Univ of Oregon
- Univ of Western Washington
- Univ of San Francisco
- Chapman
- San Diego State
- University of Hawaii, Mānoa
- Cal State San Marcos
- Sonoma State
- San Jose State
- Cal State Long Beach
- Drexel University