日前学术教育网站Niche根据SAT、ACT分数及各大学录取率，整理出全美各州最难进入的大学列表，当中哈佛以仅仅5%的录取率、1430至1600的SAT分数，荣登全美最难进大学榜首。以下则为全美各州最难进大学的摘要：(详细计算方式可按此参考)
Alabama: Spring Hill College / 录取率：44% / SAT 25th-75th %：1000-1190
Alaska: University of Alaska Southeast / 录取率：49% / SAT 25th-75th %：N/A
Arizona: Grand Canyon University / 录取率：57% / SAT 25th-75th %：N/A
Arkansas: University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff / 录取率：42% / SAT 25th-75th %：838-1065
California: Stanford University / 录取率：5% / SAT 25th-75th %：1380-1580
Colorado: United States Air Force Academy / 录取率：15% / SAT 25th-75th %：1220-1410
Connecticut: Yale University / 录取率：6% / SAT 25th-75th %：1420-1600
Delaware: Delaware State University / 录取率：41% / SAT 25th-75th %：820-970
District of Columbia (DC): Georgetown University / 录取率：17% / SAT 25th-75th %：1320-1520
Florida: University of Miami / 录取率：38% / SAT 25th-75th %：1210-1390
Georgia: Georgia Institute of Technology / 录取率：26% / SAT 25th-75th %：1320-1500
Hawaii: Brigham Young University at Hawaii / 录取率：27% / SAT 25th-75th %：973-1158
Idaho: Northwest Nazarene University / 录取率：56% / SAT 25th-75th %：1000-1240
Illinois: University of Chicago / 录取率：8% / SAT 25th-75th %：1450-1600
Indiana: University of Notre Dame / 录取率：19% / SAT 25th-75th %：1350-1540
Iowa: Grinnell College / 录取率：20% / SAT 25th-75th %：1320-1530
Kansas: Sterling College-Kansas / 录取率：37% / SAT 25th-75th %：880-1030
Kentucky: Alice Lloyd College / 录取率：22% / SAT 25th-75th %：910-1130
Louisiana: Tulane University / 录取率：26% / SAT 25th-75th %：1240-1410
Maine: Bowdoin College / 录取率：15% / SAT 25th-75th %：1360-1510
Maryland: Johns Hopkins University / 录取率：13% / SAT 25th-75th %：1400-1570
Massachusetts: Harvard University / 录取率：5% / SAT 25th-75th %：1430-1600
Michigan: University of Michigan at Ann Arbor / 录取率：29% / SAT 25th-75th %：1310-1500
Minnesota: Carleton College / 录取率：23% / SAT 25th-75th %：1320-1540
Mississippi: Belhaven University / 录取率：43% / SAT 25th-75th %：902-1180
Missouri: Washington University in St. Louis / 录取率：17% / SAT 25th-75th %：1400-1570
Montana: Rocky Mountain College / 录取率：62% / SAT 25th-75th %：878-1106
Nebraska: College of St. Mary / 录取率：60% / SAT 25th-75th %：N/A
Nevada: University of Nevada, Reno / 录取率：83% / SAT 25th-75th %：970-1200
New Hampshire: Dartmouth College / 录取率：11% / SAT 25th-75th %：1350-1560
New Jersey: Princeton University / 录取率：7% / SAT 25th-75th %：1400-1590
New Mexico: New Mexico Institute of Mining & Technology / 录取率：23% / SAT 25th-75th %：1110-1350
New York: Columbia University / 录取率：7% / SAT 25th-75th %：1410-1590
North Carolina: Duke University / 录取率：11% / SAT 25th-75th %：1380-1570
North Dakota: University of Jamestown / 录取率：57% / SAT 25th-75th %：890-1140
Ohio: Kenyon College / 录取率：27% / SAT 25th-75th %：1230-1440
Oklahoma: University of Tulsa / 录取率：40% / SAT 25th-75th %：1100-1390
Oregon: Reed College / 录取率：31% / SAT 25th-75th %：1280-1480
Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania / 录取率：9% / SAT 25th-75th %：1380-1570
Rhode Island: Brown University / 录取率：9% / SAT 25th-75th %：1370-1570
South Carolina: Clemson University / 录取率：51% / SAT 25th-75th %：1150-1340
South Dakota: Augustana University / 录取率：69% / SAT 25th-75th %：930-1230
Tennessee: Vanderbilt University / 录取率：11% / SAT 25th-75th %：1420-1590
Texas: Rice University / 录取率：15% / SAT 25th-75th %：1410-1570
Utah: Brigham Young University / 录取率：51% / SAT 25th-75th %：1160-1380
Vermont: Middlebury College / 录取率：16% / SAT 25th-75th %：1280-1495
Virginia: Washington & Lee University / 录取率：24% / SAT 25th-75th %：1320-1460
Washington: University of Washington / 录取率：45% / SAT 25th-75th %：1120-1370
West Virginia: Alderson Broaddus College / 录取率：41% / SAT 25th-75th %：870-1030
Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin / 录取率：53% / SAT 25th-75th %：1200-1420
Wyoming: University of Wyoming / 录取率：95% / SAT 25th-75th %：960-1210
