<p><a href="http://www.princetonreview.com/footer/pressreleases/pressrelease_032106.asp%5B/url%5D">http://www.princetonreview.com/footer/pressreleases/pressrelease_032106.asp</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.yaledailynews.com/article.asp?AID=32244%5B/url%5D">http://www.yaledailynews.com/article.asp?AID=32244</a></p>
<p>The Princeton Review (no affiliation with Princeton University) has released the results of its 2006 survey of approximately 4,000 high school students and 1,000 parents. When asked to name their "Dream College" if admissions and cost were not an issue, they responded in the following way. Obviously this is a simple popularity contest and I have no comment on the methodology, but the results are interesting. A survey of 4,000 (assuming it's a relatively random selection) is a very large sample size as polling goes. NYU continues to be extremely popular among high school students but doesn't even appear in the top ten in the survey of parents.</p>
<p>The dream schools as ranked by high school students:</p>
<p>1-New York Univ.
2-Harvard Univ.
3-Princeton Univ.
4-Stanford Univ.
5-Yale Univ.
6-Brown Univ.
7-Columbia Univ.
8-Duke Univ.
9-Cornell Univ.
10-Univ. of California Los Angeles. </p>
<p>The schools as parents ranked them: </p>
<p>1-Princeton Univ.
2-Stanford Univ.
3-Harvard Univ.
4-Univ. of Notre Dame
5-Duke Univ.
6-Yale Univ.
7-Boston College
8-Brown Univ.
9-Cornell Univ.
10-Massachusetts Institute of Technology.</p>
<p>Interesting find PGrad. What is missing is a survey of college students themselves. A national student survey organization this past year canvassed students nationwide, then placed hundreds of schools in tiers based on how happy/satisfied college students were with their school's academic environment. The top tier (of six tiers) contained only three schools:</p>
<p>Princeton
Stanford
MIT</p>
<p>The second tier listed 16 schools and the 3rd tier contained an even larger number.</p>
<p>altovoice,</p>
<p>Do you have a link to that study?</p>
<p>Hi Cami, the ranking is produced annually by a national college survey guide. I believe the rules here prevent posting the link. Sorry.</p>
<p>I'm a little surprised that MIT is in that top happiness tier. After some of the high profile suicides I've heard about over there, I got the impression that students there weren't all that happy.</p>
<p>Maybe engineers just come with more creative ways to kill themselves.</p>
<p>As usual, "Byer ly" etc etc etc is prevaricating, since nobody cares about his whining about how Harvard should be placed on the top whatsover, which is why he is here being a troll and why he fails to explain his reasons, and by not providing any evidence or logic to support his random rantings and disaccedation of anything that doesn't place Harvard at the top. :)</p>
<p>Byerly, As you know, the survey, is referred to by the Guide Book as an "academic ranking". That is a fact. If you have a problem with their terminology, I suggest you take it up with them!</p>
<p>You know the Guide Book Nycfan and you know the rules. If you wish to publish the link, then please by all means.</p>
<p>Thankyou Kjoodles. It is nice to see that so many of you know his game.</p>