<p>I thought that many of you might be interested in this ranking of schools from Barron's Profiles of American Colleges (1969). Things sure have changed!</p>
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Most Competitive
Most Competitive, as defined by Barron’s, include “schools in the country whose admission standards are most rigorous, and in which the intellectual caliber of the student body appears to be the highest. In general, these schools want students who rank in the top 10-25 percent of their graduating class; median SAT scores of 675-800; A to B+ average. Usually, also, these colleges can admit only a small percentage of those applying.” </p>
<p>Amherst College, Mass.
Bryn Mawr College, Pa.
California Institute of Technology, Calif.
Columbia College of Columbia University, N.Y.
Dartmouth College, N. H.
Harvard University, Mass.
Jackson College for Women, Mass.
John Hopkins University, Md.
Massachusetts Inst. of Technology, Mass.
Mount Holyoke College, Mass.
New College, Fla.
Pembroke College of Brown University, R.I.
Pomona College, Calif.
Princeton University, N.J.
Radcliffe College, Mass.
Rice University, Tex.
Smith Coll., Mass.
Stanford University, Calif.
Swarthmore College, Pa.
Webb Institute of Naval Architecture, N.Y.
Wellesley Coll., Mass.
Wesleyan University, Conn.
Williams College, Mass.</p>
<h2>Yale University, Conn. </h2>
<p>Highly Competitive
Highly Competitive include colleges with students who are in “at least the top 20 to 30 percent of their class; SAT medians range from 600 to 675; and the high school averages are usually at last B+ (or slightly lower averages are counterbalanced by particularly high exam scores).” Furthermore, to provide for finer distinctions within this category, plusses (+) have been added before some entries. “Schools so marked have the most stringent admission criteria in the group; most were almost in the ‘Most Competitive’ category.</p>
<p>Alleghemy College, Pa.
Antioch College, Ohio
Bard College, N.Y.
+ Barnard Coll., N.Y.
Bates College, Me
Bennington College, Vt.
Boston College, Mass.
Bowdoin College, Me.
+ Brandeis University, Mass.
+ Brown University, Mass.
Bucknell University, Pa.
+ Carleton College, Minn.
+ Carnegie Mellon University, Pa.
+ Case Inst. Of Technology, Ohio
Claremont Men’s Coll., Calif.
Clark University, Mass.
Colby College, Me.
Colgate University, N.Y.
College of the Holy Cross, Mass.
Connecticut College, Conn.
Cornell University, N.Y.
Davidson College, N.C.
Denison University, Ohio
Dickinson College, Pa.
Duke University, N.C.
General Motors Inst., Mich.
Georgetown Univ., Washington, D.C.
Goucher College, Md.
Grinnell College, Iowa
Hamilton College, N.Y.
Harpur Coll., N.Y. (State University of N.Y. at Binghamton)
+ Harvey Mudd College, Calif.
+ Haverford College, Pa.
Hobart Coll., N.Y.
Illinois Institute of Technology, Ill.
Kalamazoo College, Mich.
Kenyon College, Ohio
Lafayette College, Pa.
Lawrence University, Wis.
+ Lehigh University, Pa.
Manhattanville College of the Sacred Heart, N.Y.
+ Middlebury College, Vt.
Northwestern University, Ill.
+ Oberlin College, Ohio
Occidental College, Calif.
+ Reed College, Ore.
Rensseaer Polytechnic Inst., N.Y.
+ St. John’s College, Md.
Sarah Lawrence College, N.Y.
School of Engineering & Applied Science of Columbia University, N.Y.
Shimer College, Ill.
Skidmore College, N.Y.
State University of New York at Albany, N.Y.
State University of New York College at Stony Brook, N.Y.
Trinity College, Conn.
Trinity College, Washington, D.C.
Tufts College of Tufts University, Mass.
Union College, N.Y.
U.S. Air Force Academy, Colo.
U.S. Coast Guard Academy, Conn.
U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, N.Y.
U.S. Military Academy, N.Y.
U.S. Naval Academy, Md.
+ University of Chicago, Ill.
+ University of Pennsylvania, Pa.
University of Rochester, N.Y.
University of Virginia, Va.
Vanderbilt University, Tenn.
+ Vassar College, N.Y.
Washington & Lee University, Va.
Washington Univ., Mo.
Wells College, N.Y.
Wheaton College, Mass.
William Smith College, N.Y.
Worchester Polytechnic Inst., Mass.
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