But prestige comes with a price: An acceptance rate of just 4.8% ... applicants are evaluated comprehensively. MIT requires all first-year and transfer applicants to submit the Scholastic ...

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The average transfer acceptance rate at these schools was 64%. Meanwhile, the 20 colleges with the biggest transfer student populations each had more than 2,860 new transfer students. The average ...

Harvard leads with the highest overall score of 97.5, closely followed by Stanford at 96.4, and MIT at 96.2. MIT excels in ...