<p>CONNECTICUT (undisputable)
1. Yale
2. Wesleyan
3. US Coast Guard Academy
4. Connecticut College
5. Trinity College
6. UCONN
7. Quinnipiac
8. Fairfield
9. Sacred Heart
10. Univ. of Hartford
10. Central CT SU</p>
<p>MA:
1) Harvard
2) MIT
3) Amherst/Williams (Diff cat though --> LAC)
4) Tufts
5) Wellesley (Diff cat though --> LAC)
6) BC
7) BU
8) Babson/Emerson
9) Northeastern</p>
<p>This being said, I still think it's difficult to be ranking LAC's with specialties (i.e. MIT & Wellesley) with research universities (i.e. Harvard, Tufts).</p>
<p>Ohio</p>
<ol>
<li>Kenyon</li>
<li>Case Western</li>
<li>Oberlin</li>
<li>Ohio State</li>
<li>Miami U.</li>
</ol>
<p>Oregon:
Reed College
Lewis and Clark College
Willamette University
Oregon Health Sciences University
University of Portland
University of Oregon
Oregon State University
Portland State University</p>
<p>Illinois
1. Northwestern
2. University of Chicago.
3. University of Illinois (champaign-urbana)
4. Loyola
5. University of Illinois-Chicago or Illinois State</p>
<p>New Jeresey
1) Princeton
2) TCNJ
3) College of New Jersey
4) Stevens I. T.
5) Drew</p>
<p>NC
1) Duke
2) Davidson
3) Wake Forest
4) UNC-CH
5) NC State</p>
<p>Illinois (what I think)</p>
<ol>
<li>University of Chicago</li>
<li>Northwestern</li>
<li>UIUC</li>
<li>Illinois Wesl</li>
<li>Depaul</li>
<li>UIC</li>
<li>Loyola</li>
<li>Illinois State
9 & 10. EIU, SIU, WIU, NIU (there all about the same)</li>
</ol>
<p>my version of IL</p>
<ol>
<li>UChicago</li>
<li>Northwestern</li>
<li>UIUC</li>
<li>IL Wesleyan</li>
<li>ISU</li>
<li>DePaul</li>
<li>Loyola</li>
<li>SIU</li>
<li>UIC</li>
<li>UI-Springfield?</li>
</ol>
<p>My IL
1/2. U Chicago-Northwestern (depends on
3. U of I Urbana
4. Illinois Institute of Technology (Based on Av ACT Score)
5. Bradley University (underrated, in general)
6. Loyola University
7. Knox College (Best liberal acts school in IL)
8. Illinois Wesleyan
9. Depaul
10. ISU or UIC</p>
<p>VA</p>
<ol>
<li>W&L </li>
<li>UVA</li>
<li>W&M</li>
<li>URichmond</li>
<li>JMU</li>
</ol>
<p>NY</p>
<ol>
<li>Columbia</li>
<li>Cornell</li>
<li>Colgate</li>
<li>Vassar</li>
<li>Hamilton</li>
</ol>
<p>MA</p>
<ol>
<li>Harvard</li>
<li>MIT</li>
<li>Amherst</li>
<li>Williams</li>
<li>Tufts</li>
</ol>
<p>PA</p>
<ol>
<li>Penn</li>
<li>Swat</li>
<li>Haverford</li>
<li>CMU</li>
<li>Bucknell</li>
</ol>
<p>CA</p>
<ol>
<li>Stanford</li>
<li>Pomona</li>
<li>Cal-Berk.</li>
<li>UCLA</li>
<li>CMC</li>
</ol>
<p>CT</p>
<ol>
<li>Yale</li>
<li>Wesleyan</li>
<li>Conn College</li>
<li>Trinity</li>
<li>UConn</li>
</ol>
<p>NC</p>
<ol>
<li>Duke</li>
<li>Davidson</li>
<li>WFU</li>
<li>UNC</li>
<li>NC St.</li>
</ol>
<p>TN</p>
<ol>
<li>Vanderbilt</li>
<li>Rhodes</li>
<li>University of the South
4,5,6,7,8,9,10. Here be dragons...</li>
</ol>
<p>IA
1. Grinnell College
2. Iowa State
3. Iowa
4. Drake University
5. U of Northern Iowa</p>
<p>Drake could go higher, but I'm not familiar with it (even though I live 20 minutes away). Iowa State and Iowa could go either way, depending on what you look at. Iowa State is strong in the physical sciences (physics, chemistry, and especially engineering). Iowa is strong in thing such as journalism, pre-med, biological sciences. And I'm biased towards ISU :)</p>
<p>Wyoming is going to be tough.</p>
<p>Hawaii:</p>
<ol>
<li>U of Hawaii Manoa</li>
<li>Chaminade U of Honolulu (I'm biased because I actually got a second bachelor's degree there while in the Navy)</li>
<li>BYU-Hawaii</li>
<li>Hawaii Pacific U.</li>
<li>U of Hawaii-Hilo</li>
</ol>
<p>California:
Stanford
Cal Tech
Pomona
UCB
UCLA</p>
<p>New York</p>
<ol>
<li>Columbia</li>
<li>Cornell</li>
<li>NYU</li>
<li>Barnard</li>
<li>Vassar</li>
<li>Colgate</li>
<li>CUNY Honors (price and opportunities... also, CUNY sophie davis medical school, amazing)</li>
<li>U Rochester</li>
<li>Webb
10 Binghamton</li>
</ol>
<p>If Juilliard can go on this list, I'd put it third and drop everything else down one.</p>
<p>Rhode Island is easy:</p>
<ol>
<li>Brown</li>
</ol>
<p>(big drop)</p>
<ol>
<li>Providence College</li>
<li>URI</li>
<li>Rhode Island College
Salve Regina
Roger Williams</li>
</ol>
<p>what about RISD for Rhode island?</p>
<p>No specialty schools.</p>
<p>For Maryland, I'd say...</p>
<h1>1 - Johns Hopkins</h1>
<h1>2 - US Naval Academy</h1>
<h1>3 - University of Maryland - College Park</h1>
<h1>4 - St. Mary's College of Maryland</h1>
<h1>5 - Loyola</h1>
<h1>6 - University of Maryland - Baltimore County</h1>
<h1>7 - St. John's College</h1>
<h1>8 - Goucher College</h1>
<h1>9 - Washington College</h1>
<h1>10 - Salisbury University</h1>
<p>Vermont (easy enough, eh? Purely by in-state reputation)</p>
<ol>
<li>Middlebury</li>
<li>UVM</li>
<li>Marlboro College</li>
<li>Norwich</li>
<li>um...Green Mountain? </li>
</ol>
<p>alright, harder than I thought, weird.</p>
<p>Maine:</p>
<ol>
<li>Bowdoin</li>
<li>Colby</li>
<li>Bates</li>
<li>
5.</li>
</ol>
<p>University of Maine anyone??</p>
<p>MA:
1. Harvard
2. MIT
3. Williams
4. Amherst
5. Wellesley</p>