<p>If you believe the ivies are the top schools in the country, you’re just wrong. There is no absolute causation between an institution’s acceptance rate and its quality of education, albeit there is often a correlation. The grade inflation of the ivies alone is enough to show that it is nothing more than elitism rather than a true reflection of the quality of education.</p>
<p>Academic rigor? Caltech, MIT, Reed, Haverford, UChicago, Harvey Mudd, Swarthmore, etc.</p>