Business Insider’s August 2018 article The 50 Smartest Colleges in America mistakenly used the undergraduate student population of Boston University (18,080) for Boston College (approximately 9,300).
I think these lists (by SAT score & by size of undergraduate student population) helps one to place these colleges & universities in a useful perspective. Plus, I find it fascinating that large universities can attract a city full of bright minds into their communities.
(Personally speaking, if I could redo my undergraduate years, I might target the University of Michigan as my first choice school due to the breadth & diversity & quality of the student community. I think that such an environment would be exciting & add an important dimension to one’s learning experience at the undergraduate level.)
Any of HYPS can take Caltech’s place atop of the “Smartest College” if they want to given the abundance of applicants with perfect SAT scores that knock on their gates each year for entrance. But they purposely don’t, so what’s the point of such rankings when top colleges don’t “participate”? Given Caltech’s admission yield of 44%, those students who went elsewhere to less smart colleges must be some dumb kids.
^ or take faculty children, legacies and/or sports recruits? 
As could Chicago, Northwestern, Duke, etc.
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