What top colleges actually weigh
Acceptance rates, Early Decision advantages, test policies, and how each school rates the factors in your application, pulled from the colleges’ own Common Data Set filings and verified against official sources.

Harvard University
3.6%
acceptance rate
Harvard College offers no undergraduate business major; business-minded students typically concentrate in Economics (often paired with Statistics o...
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Columbia University
3.9%
acceptance rate
3.4x
early decision odds
Columbia has no undergraduate business school, so business-minded undergrads typically major in economics or financial economics at Columbia Colleg...
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Princeton University
4.4%
acceptance rate
Princeton has no undergraduate business school or business major; students aiming for business careers typically major in Economics (A.B.) or Opera...
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MIT
4.5%
acceptance rate
MIT's undergrad business path runs through the Sloan School of Management via Course 15 majors (Management, Business Analytics, Finance), which stu...
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Yale University
4.7%
acceptance rate
Yale has no undergraduate business major; students aiming at business typically major in Economics or Ethics, Politics, and Economics and draw on Y...
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University of Pennsylvania
5.4%
acceptance rate
2.6x
early decision odds
Penn is one of the few elite schools with a direct-admit undergraduate business school: the Wharton School's BS in Economics, offering 21 concentra...
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Dartmouth College
6%
acceptance rate
3.6x
early decision odds
Dartmouth has no undergraduate business major; aspiring business students typically major in economics (or engineering modified with economics) and...
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Northwestern University
7.7%
acceptance rate
3x
early decision odds
Northwestern has no undergraduate business school or business major; business-minded students typically major in economics (or Industrial Engineeri...
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All figures come from each school’s own Common Data Set (edition noted on each profile). More colleges are being added as their data is verified.