<p>Princeton Review has each college and university rated from 60-99 on selectivity. I've looked in vain to find on their website a listing of schools by rating, thinking it would be a useful tool in deciding whether to consider a given school to be a reach, a target, or a safety. Since the PR website doesn't have such a list, I made my own groupings using USNWR's top 50 universities and top 50 LACs. I certainly wouldn't treat it as gospel, but in the event that you all find it useful, or at least interesting, here's the list:</p>
<p>99 - Harvard
Yale
Princeton
Penn
Columbia (?)
Brown
Duke
Stanford
MIT
Cal Tech
Wash U. St. L.
Williams
Swarthmore
Pomona
Middlebury</p>
<p>97 - Cornell
Northwestern
U. of Chicago
Vanderbilt
U. of Virginia
William & Mary
Southern Cal
Brandeis
Boston College
Wellesley
Carleton
Wesleyan U.
Vassar
Washington & Lee
Colgate
Oberlin</p>
<p>96 - Carnegie Mellon
Michigan
UNC-Chapel Hill
Lehigh
UC-San Diego
NYU
Grinnell
Hamilton
Colby
Bates
Scripps
Kenyon
Reed
Harvey Mudd</p>
<p>95 - Wake Forest
U. of Rochester (?)
UC-Irvine
U. of Washington
Smith
Macalester
Bucknell
Colorado College
Lafayette
U. of Richmond
Connecticut College
Whitman
Bard
Furman</p>
<p>94 - Tulane
UC-Santa Barbara
UC-Davis
U. of Florida
Bryn Mawr
Trinity College
Holy Cross
Union
Gettysburg</p>
<p>93 - Mt. Holyoke
Occidental
Rhodes</p>
<p>92 - U. of Wisconsin
Franklin & Marshall
Centre
Skidmore
Dickinson
DePauw</p>
<p>91 - Case Western Reserve
Georgia Tech (?)
Rensselaer Polytechnic (?)
Syracuse
Sewanee</p>
<p>97 -
Northwestern
U. of Chicago
Vanderbilt
U. of Virginia
William & Mary
Southern Cal
Brandeis
Boston College
Wellesley
Carleton
Wesleyan U.
Vassar
Barnard
Washington & Lee
Colgate
Oberlin</p>
<p>Note that this isn't my own opinion. It's the selectivity rating for each school that Princeton Review shows on its "Statistics" link off each school's profile.</p>
<p>99 - Harvard
Yale
Princeton
Penn
Columbia
Brown
Stanford
MIT
Cal Tech
Dartmouth</p>
<p>98 -
Cornell
Duke
Johns Hopkins
Rice
Notre Dame
Georgetown
Amherst
Wash U. St. L.
Williams
Swarthmore
Pomona</p>
<p>97 -
Northwestern
U. of Chicago
Vanderbilt
UC-Berkeley
Emory
Middlebury
U. of Virginia</p>
<p>96
William & Mary
Southern Cal
Brandeis
Boston College
Wellesley
Carleton
Wesleyan U.
Vassar
Barnard
Washington & Lee
Colgate
Oberlin
Bowdoin
Haverford
Claremont McKenna
Davidson
UCLA
Tufts</p>
<p>These are the top 20 this year (deleting some state schools for obvious reasons)</p>
<ol>
<li>HARVARD UNIVERSITY 19,690 2,054 10.4%</li>
<li>YALE UNIVERSITY 17,735 2,014 11.4%</li>
<li>PRINCETON UNIVERSITY 13,695 1,733 12.7%</li>
<li>STANFORD UNIVERSITY 19,172 2,486 13.0%</li>
<li>COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK 17,258 2,275 13.2%</li>
<li>MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 10,466 1,665 15.9%</li>
<li>BROWN UNIVERSITY 15,285 2,505 16.4%</li>
<li>DARTMOUTH COLLEGE 11,734 2,173 18.5%</li>
<li>WILLIAMS COLLEGE 5,705 1,093 19.2%</li>
<li>AMHERST COLLEGE 5,489 1,136 20.7%</li>
<li>UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA 18,282 3,878 21.2%</li>
<li>DUKE UNIVERSITY 17,749 3,804 21.4%</li>
<li>GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY 14,828 3,243 21.9%</li>
<li>WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS 19,822 4,400 22.2%</li>
<li>RICE UNIVERSITY 8,106 1,802 22.2%</li>
<li>MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE 5,702 1,286 22.6%</li>
<li>UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-LOS ANGELES 44,981 10,577 23.5%</li>
<li>UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-BERKELEY 37,001 8,833 23.9%</li>
<li>BOWDOIN COLLEGE 4,853 1,186 24.4%</li>
<li>DAVIDSON COLLEGE 4,154 1,108 26.7%</li>
</ol>
<p>Bear in mind that acceptance percentages aren't necessarily an index of selectivity, if the qualifications of the candidate pools differ among institutions. Accepting 20% of applicants from among an A+ candidate pool probably makes a university more selective than one which accepts 15% from a B-grade pool.</p>
<p>The USNWR Selectivity methodology is as follows:
50% Standardized Test Scores
40% % of Students coming from Top 10% and Top 25% of a high school class
10% Admittance Rate</p>
<p>Can someone please post the PR methodology? Thanks.</p>