<p>In its 2008 The Best 361 Colleges, The Princeton Review awarded Dartmouth a 96/100 academic rating, one of the highest awarded nationwide.</p>
<p>That's nice.</p>
<p>Princeton Review awarded the following:</p>
<p>99
Harvard
Princeton
MIT
Stanford
Chicago
Grinnell
Swarthmore
Deep Springs</p>
<p>98
Williams
Bowdoin
Carleton
Reed
Middlebury
Pomona
Vassar
WUStL
Wellesley</p>
<p>97
Amherst</p>
<p>96
Dartmouth
Bates
Columbia
Rice
Wesleyan
Macalester
Smith</p>
<p>95
Yale
Oberlin
Duke</p>
<p>94
Saint Olaf</p>
<p>93
Penn
Coby</p>
<p>92
Cornell
Trinity (CT)</p>
<p>85
Brown</p>
<p>PR books tend to be very kind to Dartmouth. The PR college book I have gives dartmouth tied for highest student satisfactory rate of 96% with one other college in the nation, from the middle of nowhere. My book's a few years old, so that might've changed a bit. Anyways, Harvard's student satisfactory rating was like 80%, which totally makes sense, because too many people go there for name over fit. I think Dartmouth has way less of that, and therefore, they get a higher amount of students applying who are well matched for the school.</p>
<p>In its 2008 edition of The Best 361 Colleges, The Princeton Review awarded Holy Cross a 98/100 academic rating - the highest of any Catholic institution of higher education.</p>
<p>pamplemoose, I adore your username! :D</p>
<p>Interesting that colleges that seem totally not as good as Dartmouth (Grinnell, Carleton, Deep Springs (which I actually have never heard of), Bowdoin) are rated higher.</p>
<p>And I would have thought Brown would be much higher on the list. Any explanations there?</p>
<p>Kristina, take a look at Deep Springs. It's a two-year men-only college in the mountains of CA/NV, where everyone works the ranch as well as studies. After two years there, the guys transfer to the tippy-top schools. Only about 27 students. </p>
<p>Unique.</p>
<p>Unique and FREE!</p>
<p>In the recent past, the Princeton Review academic rating has been wildly inappropriate for many schools; for example, for a couple of years recently, the academically challenging & intense Georgia Tech scored a sixty-one (61) PR academic rating. Basically PR, I think, relies on self reported stats, although I am not certain of this. But, I am certain, that PR's academic rating is worth just about what you paid, or less, to read it here.(For Georgia Tech grads, that means nothing or less than nothing).</p>
<p>I read about Deep Springs. Wow, that sounds really cool! Were I not female, I would regret not having known about the college in time to apply.</p>
<p>icy, the 61 does not refer to the actual academic rating. schools who fail to submit information on time receive a 61. bowdoin failed to one year a few years ago and it received the same score. </p>
<p>i don't think the PR rating is wildly inappropriate, although their rankings are based upon student surveys and not upon a stated methodology.</p>