Town & Country, which recently featured Ivy Coach in a piece on why college applicants should not try to secure letters of recommendation from famous people, is out with a new piece on universities outside of the Ivy League at which admission has become increasingly competitive over the past four or five years. So which highly selective universities made the list of schools Town & Country deems the Alt-Ivies (their term, not ours)? Wonder no more!

As reported by Leena Kim for Town & Country in a piece entitled “The Hottest College in Boston Is… Northeastern?,” “Northeastern University’s admission rate has fallen from 27.44% in 2017 to 6.79% in 2022. During this time, applications have spiked 67.85%. Georgia Tech’s admission rate, during this same period, fell from 23.4% in 2017 to 17% in 2022 as applications rose a dramatic 60.65%. University of Texas at Austin’s admission rate dropped from 2017 to 2021 from 36.49% to 28.75% as applications rose by a margin of 29.41%. At University of Virginia, the admission rate dropped from 27.35% in 2017 to 18.68% in 2021 as applications spiked 38.56%. Howard University’s acceptance rate plummeted from 41.42% in 2017 to 35.26% in 2022 with applications rising 74.79% over the four year period. Tulane University’s acceptance rate dropped from 21.5% in 2017 to 8.5% in 2022 as applications climbed 17.91%.

University of Miami’s admission rate dropped from 2017 to 2021 from 37.71% to 28.49% as applications rose by a margin of 50.65%. At Colgate University, the admission rate dropped from 28.14% in 2017 to 17.19% in 2021 as applications spiked an astonishing 148.89% from 2017 – 2022. Wellesley College’s acceptance rate plummeted from 28.59% in 2017 to 13% in 2022 as applications rose 79.23%. At University of Michigan, the admit rate dropped from 26.5% in 2017 to 20.15% in 2021 with applications up by a margin of 40.27% between 2017 and 2022. New York University’s acceptance rate fell from 27.66% in 2017 to 12.2% in 2022 as 64.04% more students applied.

In 2017, Oberlin’s acceptance rate stood at 33.72%, dropping to 9.23% in 2022 with 33.21% more applications. At University of California – Irvine, the 2017 acceptance rate stood at 36.5%, dropping to 28.96% in 2022 as applications climbed 66.86% between 2017 and 2022. Boston College’s acceptance rate dropped from 32% in 2017 to 16% in 2022 with applications spiking by a margin of 42.03%. And at Emory University, the acceptance rate plummeted from 21.8% in 2017 to 15.82% in 2022 as applications rose by 38.99%.

Think another school should have been featured for its diminishing admission rate along with the aforementioned universities by Town & Country? Let us know your thoughts by posting a comment below. We look forward to hearing from you!