除了最佳大学排名，Niche还根据录取率、SAT/ACT成绩的高低整理了2017最难申请的美国大学。录取率权重占60%，录取学生的SAT/ACT成绩占40%。根据这份榜单，美国最难申的大学是加州理工学院。哈佛还比加州理工好进些。

    这个表单将综合大u和文理学院合在了一起比较，通过对比，我们也可以看到在USNews榜单排名第一的文理学院威廉姆斯学院比很多大学都容易申请。详细榜单见下表。

2017申请，不要求SAT/ACT成绩的美国大学TOP50

1.Bowdoin College

2.Bates College

3.Wake Forest University

4.Smith College

5.College of the Holy Cross

6.Bryn Mawr College

7.Wesleyan University

8.Worcester Polytechnic Institute

9.Franklin & Marshall College

10.Mount Holyoke College

11.Pitzer College

12.Skidmore College

13.St. Lawrence University

14.George Washington University

15.Lawrence University

16.Providence College

17.Drake University

18.Clark University

19.Temple University

20.Muhlenberg College

21.Loyola University Maryland

22.Allegheny College

23.Stonehill College

24.Transylvania University

25.Willamette University

26.Kalamazoo College

27.Ithaca College

28.Beloit College

29.Hobart & William Smith Colleges

30.Baldwin Wallace University

31.Connecticut College

32.Trinity College - Connecticut

33.Wittenberg University

34.California Institute of the Arts

35.Catholic University of America

36.The College of Idaho

37.University of Puget Sound

38.Fairfield University

39.University of Massachusetts - Lowell

40.Cornell College

41.Remington College - Dallas

42.Saint Joseph's University

43.Bryant University

44.St. John's University - New York

45.Bay Path College

46.Le Moyne College

47.Nazareth College

48.Walsh University

49.Quinnipiac University

50.Bard College