2013年赴美国留学的学生依然是非常多的，以下是2013年美国本科新生秋季入学的录取率信息，没有特别说明的都是指总录取率。录取率低于 25% 的任何学校对于任何申请人而言都非保底校或者安全校，不论申请的绩点有多高，标准化考试是否接近满分。所以这个层级的学校任何背景的人申请都不要轻言“容易”，托福和SAT满分也一样不会十拿九稳说会被录取。
注：红色表示竞争惨烈，总体录取率均低于 25%;蓝色表示竞争高度激烈，录取率介于 26% – 40%;粉色表示竞争非常激烈，总录取率介于 41%- 55% 之间;绿色表示竞争激烈，总录取率超过 50%。
竞争惨烈的学校：
· Amherst College：13.6% overall; 39% early decision; 13.67% regular decision
· Bates College： 23.65% overall; 39.7% early decision; 20.1% regular decision
· Barnard College： 20.5% overall; 42.6% early decision; 17.9% regular decision
· Bowdoin College： 14.5% overall; 12.3% regular decision
· Brown University： 9%
· California Institute of Technology：10.55% overall; 15% early decision; 8% regular
· Carleton College：20.98% overall; 29.7% early decision; 20% regular decision
· Carnegie Mellon University：25%
· Claremont McKenna College：11.7% overall; 28% early decision
· Colorado College：22% overall; 12% regular decision; 29% early action; 39% early decision
· Columbia University：6.89%
· Cooper Union：7.27% overall; 12% early; 6% regular decision
· Cornell University：15.2%
· Dartmouth College：10%
· Duke University：11.58% overall; 29.65% early decision; 10% regular decision
· Emory University：25.95% overall; 35% early decision
· Georgetown University：16.6% regular decision, 12.9% early action
· Harvard College：5.8%
· Haverford College：23.26% overall; 45% early decision
· Johns Hopkins：16.8% overall; 36.68% early decision; 15.31% regular decision
· Massachusetts Institute of Technology：8.2%
· Middlebury College：19% overall; 17% regular decision; 35% early decision
· Northwestern University：13.9%
· Olin College of Engineering：16.19%
· Pitzer College：14.54% overall; 42% early decision; 13% regular decision
· Pomona College：12.89% overall; 19.46% early decision; 11.96% regular decision
· Princeton University：regular decision: 5.44%, overall admit rate 7.9%
· Rice University：17% overall; 25% early; 16% regular decision
· Stanford University：5.69%
· Swarthmore College：14%
· Tufts University：18.7%
· University of California Berkeley：20.8% overall; California applicants, 21.4%; out of state applicants, 24.5%; international applicants, 14.6%
· University of California Los Angeles：20.1% overall; California applicants, 17.4%; out of state applicants, 32.6%; international applicants, 19.6%
· University of Chicago：8.8%
· University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill：25.33% overall; 35.8% early; 13.3% regular decision
· University of Pennsylvania：12.1%
· University of Southern California：19.6%
· Vanderbilt University：11.97% overall; 21.6% early decision; 10.84% regular decision
· Washington University in St. Louis：15% overall; 26.6% early decision; 13.7% regular decision
· Wellesley College：28%
· Wesleyan University：19.37% overall; 41% early decision; 17% regular decision
· Williams College：17%
· Yale University：6.72%
竞争高度激烈的学校：
· Babson College：28.1% overall; 34.25 early decision; 19.96% regular decision
· Boston University：36%
· Bryn Mawr College：39%
· Bucknell University：28.98% overall; 54.8% early decision; 25.8% regular decision
· Case Western Reserve University：39.13%
· Colgate University：26%
· College of the Holy Cross：32.39% overall; 67% early decision; 29% regular decision
· College of William and Mary：32.5%
· Connecticut College：35%
· George Washington University：33%
· Georgia Institute of Technology：39.37% overall; 53% early; 18% regular decision
· Hamilton College：27%
· Kenyon College：32.9%
· Lafayette College：33.65% overall; 53% early decision; 32% regular decision
· Lehigh University：30.48 overall; 54.9% early decision; 28.9% regular decision
· Macalester College：34%
· New York University：39% (anticipated, final count not in)
· Skidmore College：35%
· Trinity College (CT)：31% overall; 50% early decision; 29% regular decision
· Union College (NY)：37%
· University of California Davis：39.4% overall; California applicants, 37%; out of state applicants 54.6%; international applicants, 47.4%
· University of California San Diego：36.8% overall; California applicants, 32.7%; out of state applicants, 58.4%; international applicants, 42.5%
· University of California Santa Barbara：38.8% overall; California applicants, 38.5% out of state applicants, 58.4%; international applicants, 33.9%
· University of Richmond：30.7% overall; 45% early decision; 29% regular decision
· University of Rochester：31% overall; 46.9% early decision; 30.2% regular decision
· University of Texas Austin：overall admit rate approx. 39.4%; note: due to Texas state law, 66% of admitted students were automatically admitted for being in top 9% of their high schools; only 3,000 students admitted from out of state.
· University of Virginia：Overall: 29.4%; non-resident admit rate 24.46%; Virginia resident admit rate: 40.7%
竞争非常激烈的学校：
· Denison University：45.5%
· Dickinson College：44.2%
· Occidental College：42%
· Rensselear Polytechnic Institute：41%
· St. Lawrence University：45.93% overall; 89% early decision; 43% regular decision
· St. Olaf College：47.5%
· University of California Irvine：41.1% overall; California applicants, 38.9%; out of state applicants, 55.3%; international applicants, 50.3%
· University of California Santa Cruz：48.6% overall; California applicants, 46%; out of state applicants, 79.2%; international applicants, 60%
· University of Florida：44%
· University of Maryland, College Park：46.91%
竞争激烈的学校：
· DePaul University：58%
· Elon University：53% overall; 53% early; 50% regular decision
· George Mason University：60%
· Ithaca College：64%
· Lewis & Clark College：62.17% overall; 75% early; 55% regular decision
· Ohio Wesleyan University：70%
· State University of New York Canton：55.8%
· University of California Merced：65.6% overall; California applicants, 66.8%; out of state applicants 48.3%; international applicants, 41.9%
· University of California Riverside：54.7% overall; California applicants, 55.5%; out of state applicants 54.2%; international applicants 43.7%
· University of Rhode Island：approx. 75% overall
· University of Wisconsin, Madison：51%
· University of Georgia：53%
