<p>PR has released the results of its college hopes survey which, in an admittedly unscientific poll, tabulates the answers to questions posed to students and parents online about their dream colleges. Princeton fell a bit in the survey this year but still does well. Stanford and Harvard came away with the top two spots and Columbia was the third most frequently named dream college among students. This ranking is mostly for fun but its still interesting to see the results.</p>
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<p>For the survey's only fill-in-the-blank question, "What 'dream college' do you wish you (your child) could attend if acceptance or cost weren't issues?", respondents wrote in the names of more than 700 institutions from Alaska Pacific University to Yale.</p>
<p>The schools most named by students as their "Dream Colleges" were:</p>
<pre><code>1/ Stanford
2/ Harvard
3/ Columbia
4/ Princeton
5/ New York University
6/ Yale
7/ University of California--Los Angeles,
8/ Massachusetts Institute of Technology
9/ University of Southern California,
10/ University of California--Berkeley
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<p>The schools most named by parents as their "Dream Colleges" were:</p>
<pre><code>1/ Harvard
2/ Stanford
3/ Princeton
4/ University of Notre Dame
5/ Yale
6/ New York University
7/ University of California--Los Angeles
8/ Duke
9/ University of Southern California
10/ Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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