list of east coast colleges that arent ivy league

College Search & Selection
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<p>so im going to be applying to cornell for early acceptance, and if im not accepted id like to know what great, not so well known schools there are that are just a tiiiiiny bit (but not alot) easier to get into/prestigious there are in the area. if you want to know how competitive of a student i am, think of the exact UCLA&/orCAL 50th percentile of acceptance student</p>

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<p>University of Rochester
Tufts University
Carnegie Mellon
Boston College</p>

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<p>Rochester, BC, Lehigh, Brandeis, Tufts, Villanova, Bucknell, Trinity College, Wake Forest (not really the coast), Bates, Colby, Holy Cross, UNC, NYU, and more.</p>

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<p>Just about any LAC in roughly the USNWR #10 - #30 ought to meet your criteria. Haverford, Middlebury, Bowdoin, Wesleyan, Hamilton, Vassar, Colgate, etc.</p>

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<p>Middlebury and Bowdoin are #5 and #6, respectively. Thier stats place them in the same league as Cornell.</p>

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<p>Williams
Amherst
Smith
Middlebury
Vassar
Bowdoin
Boston College
Boston University
Northeastern University
Villanova
Bucknell
Trinity College
Bates
Colgate
Wesleyan
etc.</p>

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<p>Again, many of the schools listed above are as competitive or even more competitive than Cornell. He’s looking for schools that are easier to get into.</p>

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<p>i would like to know too! thanks alot :)</p>

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<p>NYU, GW, Tufts, Brandeis, Lehigh, Bucknell, Villanova, U of Rochester, SUNY Binghamton (especially if $ is a criteria).</p>

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<p>OP, this is a pretty question to answer on your own … why don’t you look up the admission rates for the schools ranked #15-50 on the USNews Research U list and on the LAC list?</p>

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<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/687793-selectivity-ranking-national-us-lacs-combined-usnews-method.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/687793-selectivity-ranking-national-us-lacs-combined-usnews-method.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>This is 2.5 years old, but the pecking order probably has not changed much.
Haverford, Middlebury, Bowdoin, Wesleyan, Hamilton, Vassar, and Colgate, in that order, were all at least a tiiiiiny bit less selective than Cornell (by PapaChicken’s calculations, anyway). By enough of a margin to make the OP comfortable? If not, take it down a notch.</p>

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<p>They’re all pretty close. These are the numbers for the class entering last fall:</p>

<p>Cornell:
SAT (90% submitting):
Reading Middle 50%: 640 - 730
Math Middle 50%: 670 - 770
ACT Middle 50% (37% submitting): 29 - 33
Students in Top Tenth of HS Class: 90%
Acceptance Rate: 18.3%</p>

<p>Middlebury:
SAT (79% submitting):
Reading Middle 50%: 640 - 740
Math Middle 50%: 650 - 740<br>
ACT Middle 50% (39% submitting): 30 - 33
Students in Top Tenth of HS Class: 86%
Acceptance Rate: 17.2%</p>

<p>Bowdoin:
SAT (70% submitting):
Reading Middle 50%: 650 - 750
Math Middle 50%: 660 - 750
ACT Middle 50% (33% submitting): 30 - 33
Students in Top Tenth of HS Class: 83%
Acceptance Rate: 19.6</p>

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<p>Holy Cross, Colgate.</p>