How popular top colleges are to CCers

<p>For the most part, yea.</p>

<p>It seems like some of the bigger schools might have far more current students and parents replying to all those 'chances' threads and such.</p>

<p>If you take into account size (which you probably shouldn't), you get:</p>

<p>Princeton 73,517 4,710 15.6087
Caltech 9,173 913 10.0471
Harvard 60,603 6,613 9.1642
Yale 48,578 5,349 9.0817
Columbia 36,138 4,225 8.5534
MIT 30,713 4,053 7.5779
Penn 66,836 9,841 6.7916
Chicago 26,310 4,638 5.6727
Dartmouth 22,145 3,991 5.5487
Brown 31,380 5,927 5.2944
Stanford 32,393 6,491 4.9904
Cornell 66,084 13,474 4.9049
Rice 13,055 2,988 4.3691
Duke 21,320 6,259 3.4063
Johns Hopkins 12,947 4,306 3.0067
Georgetown 15,715 6,395 2.4574
Northwestern 16,144 7,902 2.0430
Carnegie Mellon 10,674 5,494 1.9428
Berkeley 38,135 23,447 1.6264
WashU 9,807 6,495 1.5099
Emory 8,127 6,378 1.2742
UCLA 27,223 24,811 1.0972
UVA 13,839 13,387 1.0338
UMich 25,408 25,282 1.0050
Vandy 5,029 6,286 .80000
Notre Dame 6,231 8,266 .7538
UNC 5,178 16,278 .3181</p>

<p>And if you are curious about the top schools in order of size (assuming smaller is better):</p>

<p>Caltech 913
Rice 2,988<br>
Dartmouth 3,991<br>
MIT 4,053<br>
Columbia 4,225<br>
Johns Hopkins 4,306<br>
Chicago 4,638<br>
Princeton 4,710<br>
Yale 5,349<br>
Carnegie Mellon 5,494<br>
Brown 5,927<br>
Duke 6,259<br>
Vandy 6,286<br>
Georgetown 6,395<br>
Emory 6,378<br>
Stanford 6,491<br>
WashU 6,495<br>
Harvard 6,613<br>
Northwestern 7,902<br>
Notre Dame 8,266<br>
Penn 9,841<br>
Cornell 13,474<br>
UVA 13,387<br>
UNC 16,278<br>
Berkeley 23,447<br>
UCLA 24,811<br>
UMich 25,282</p>