Dreaming of going to Yale, Harvard, Princeton, or Dartmouth University? Getting into an Ivy League school is difficult, so it wouldn’t hurt to take a quick “reality check moment”. The top schools in the US have very low acceptance rates-–usually below 4%. Beat the odds and got accepted? Great. Next problem: getting into these schools can be prohibitively expensive in many cases–with annual tuition and boarding soaring up to the six-figures per year it’s no wonder student loans and loan refinancing is at an all time high. Lastly , once students get in, they have to rigorously maintain their grade so that they remain in the program until graduation. Here is 2018’s toughest 15 colleges to get into: