3 Ivies among top 10 schools with highest standards

Applying to College
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https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2019/09/11/hardest-colleges-to-get-into/40090323/

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50 Hardest Colleges To Get Into:

  1. CalTech

  2. MIT

  3. Harvard

  4. UChicago

  5. Yale

  6. Rice

  7. JHU

  8. Olin Coll. of Eng.

  9. Harvey Mudd

  10. Princeton

  11. Vanderbilt

  12. UPenn

  13. Stanford

  14. Brown

  15. Northwestern

  16. Columbia

  17. WashUStL

  18. Williams College

  19. Amherst College

  20. Duke

  21. Dartmouth College

  22. CMU

  23. Cornell

  24. Swarthmore College

  25. Tufts

  26. Pomona College

  27. Notre Dame

  28. Haverford College

  29. Claremont McKenna College

  30. Georgetown

  31. Carleton College

  32. Northeastern (Boston)

  33. Colby College

  34. Middlebury College

  35. Cooper Union

  36. USC

  37. Wellesley College

  38. Webb Institute

  39. Barnard College

  40. Hamilton College

  41. Emory

  42. Wash & Lee

  43. UCal-Berkeley (low SAT scores 1260 - 1480 & student teacher ratio of 20:1)

  44. Tulane

  45. Vassar College

  46. Davidson College

  47. Grinnell College

  48. Michigan

  49. Colgate University

  50. Case Western Reserve

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Last year’s numbers. Plus the stats are more important than the raw acceptance number. Schools have different levels of general applicants.

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There are schools flat out missing on here. This list isn’t complete.

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@AriBenSion Cutting hairs here but the stats for all these schools are pretty good.

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Is there really a need for yet another thread full of mind-numbing statistics that serves only to lead to a debate over splitting hairs? I’m thinking not. Closing.