Liberal Arts Schools with High Acceptance Rates

The majority of our school specific blog posts focus on schools with an acceptance rate of less than 30%, but we decided to flip the script and put together a list of the top 100 liberal arts schools that had an acceptance rate of 35% and above for the class of 2022.

  • Soka University of America: 37%

  • Bryn Mawr College: 38%

  • Macalester College: 41%

  • Mount Holyoke College: 51%

  • Oberlin College: 39%

  • College of the Holy Cross: 38%

  • Franklin and Marshall College: 35%

  • Occidental College 37% 

  • Union College: 38%

  • Thomas Aquinas College: 72%

  • Whitman College: 52%

  • Centre College: 76%

  • Connecticut College: 38%

  • Gettysburg College: 45%

  • Sewanee – University of the South: 47%

  • Agnes Scott College: 66%

  • Dickinson College 49%

  • Furman University: 61% 

  • Rhodes College: 51%

  • Spelman College: 40% 

  • DePauw University: 67%

  • St. Lawrence University: 48%

  • Lawrence University: 61%

  • Wabash College: 63%

  • Berea College: 35%

  • St. John’s College (MD): 55%

  • St. Olaf College: 43%

  • Wheaton College (IL): 85%

  • Kalamazoo College: 73%

  • Sarah Lawrence College: 53%

  • College of Wooster: 56% 

  • Beloit College: 54%

  • Hobart and William Smith Colleges: 61%

  • Knox College: 72%

  • Lewis & Clark College: 55%

  • Illinois Wesleyan University: 61%

  • St. John’s College (NM): 63%

  • University of Puget Sound: 84%

  • Wofford College: 69%

  • Allegheny College: 68%

  • Hendrix College: 80%

  • Hillsdale College: 41%

  • Transylvania University: 95%

  • Willamette University: 89%

  • Cornell College: 71%

  • Earlham College: 52%

  • Muhlenberg College: 48%

  • Principia College: 91%

  • Virginia Military Institute: 53%

  • College of St. Benedict: 91%

  • Juniata College: 71% 

  • Wheaton College (MA): 48%

  • Luther College: 65%

  • Gustavus Adolphus College: 68%

  • New College of Florida: 69%

  • Reed College: 36%

  • Southwestern University: 43%

  • Ursinus College: 78%

  • Augustana College: 59% 

  • Bennington College: 57%

  • College of the Atlantic: 68% 

  • Ohio Wesleyan University: 71%

  • St. Anslem College: 76%

  • Saint John’s University (MN): 90% 

  • St. Mary’s College (IN): 82%

  • St. Mary's College of Maryland: 82%

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