College Admissions
Highly Selective Admissions
If your college goals include admission to a highly selective college or university, please connect with your school counselor to discuss the unique approach you'll need to take to customize your application and stand out among applicants.
Information Sessions
Seniors, juniors and their families will be invited to a session on highly selective admissions in spring and fall. In the last three years, 22-28% of Orono seniors applied to highly selective colleges. Here are some helpful resources to help you get started.
References
- Tips for Success in Selective Admissions - University of Chicago
- Highly Selective College Admissions 101 - College Transitions
- Guide to Highly Selective Colleges - College Matchpoint
Fee-based Resource
- Applying to Highly Selective Colleges & Universities - College Essay Guy (on-demand online video course)
Highly Selective Schools - OHS Acceptance & Attending Statistics
Key to symbols:
* Highly selective colleges and universities (acceptance rate below 25%)
♦ Top National Universities, U.S. News & World Report
∆ Top Liberal Arts Colleges, U.S. News & World Report
College/university names in BOLD indicate ACCEPTED and ATTENDING. College/university names in normal type indicate ACCEPTED, but not attending. The following data is compiled for Orono High School in MaiaLearning.
| College/University |
| Amherst College∆ |
| Bates*∆ |
| Boston College♦ |
| Boston University* |
| Bowdoin College*∆ |
| Brown University*♦ |
| Bryn Mawr∆ |
| Bucknell∆ |
| California Institute of Technology♦ |
| Carleton College*∆ |
| Carnegie-Mellon*♦ |
| Colby College*∆ |
| Colgate University∆ |
| College of the Holy Cross∆ |
| Colorado College*∆ |
| Columbia University*♦ |
| Cornell University*♦ |
| Dartmouth College*♦ |
| Davidson College*∆ |
| Denison University∆ |
| Duke*♦ |
| Emory University*♦ |
| Oxford College of Emory University* |
| Franklin Olin College of Engineering* |
| Franklin & Marshall∆ |
| Georgetown University*♦ |
| Georgia Institute of Technology*♦ |
| Grinnell College*∆ |
| Hamilton*∆ |
| Harvard College*♦ |
| Howard* |
| Harvey Mudd*∆ |
| College/University |
| Haverford College*∆ |
| Hillsdale College∆ |
| Johns Hopkins*♦ |
| Lafayette∆ |
| Macalester College∆ |
| Middlebury College*∆ |
| Mount Holyoke College∆ |
| New York University*♦ |
| Northeastern University* |
| Northwestern University♦ |
| Notre Dame♦ |
| Occidental∆ |
| Pomona College∆ |
| Princeton*♦ |
| Rice University*♦ |
| Rutgers University–New Brunswick♦ |
| Scripps College∆ |
| Skidmore∆ |
| Smith∆ |
| Swarthmore College∆ |
| Tufts* |
| Tulane* |
| United States Air Force Academy*∆ |
| United States Military Academy West Point*∆ |
| United States Naval Academy*∆ |
| University of California, Berkeley*♦ |
| University of California, Davis♦ |
| University of California, Irvine♦ |
| University of California, Los Angeles*♦ |
| University of California, San Diego♦ |
| University of California, Santa Barbara♦ |
| College/University |
| University of Chicago*♦ |
| University of Florida♦ |
| University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| University of Michigan - Ann Arbor♦ |
| University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill♦ |
| University of Notre Dame* |
| University of Pennsylvania*♦ |
| University of Richmond∆ |
| University of Southern California*♦ |
| University of Texas at Austin♦ |
| University of Virginia*♦ |
| University of Wisconsin-Madison♦ |
| Vanderbilt University*♦ |
| Washington & Lee University∆ |
| Washington University in St. Louis*♦ |
| Wellesley College*∆ |
| Wesleyan University∆ |
| Yale University* |
International
*Highly selective international colleges and universities with an acceptance rate below 25%.
| International College/University |
| King's College London (United Kingdom)* |
| McGill University (Canada)* |
| New York University Abu Dhabi |
| University of Edinburgh (Scotland)* |
| University of St. Andrews (Scotland)* |
| London School of Economics and Political Science (United Kingdom)* |