Pecking Order

Colleges and Universities A-Z Columbia University
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<p>This data is a couple of years old but still interesting:</p>

<p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2006/09/17/weekinreview/20060917_LEONHARDT_CHART.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2006/09/17/weekinreview/20060917_LEONHARDT_CHART.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>The order of preference seems to be:</p>

<p>number of cross admit battles won - college</p>

<p>16 - Harvard
15 - Yale
14 - MIT
13 - Stanford
12 - Princeton
11 - Brown
10 - Columbia
9 - Dartmouth
8 - Penn
7 - Cornell
6 - Georgetown
5 - Duke
4 - Virginia
3 - Northwestern
2 - UC-Berkeley
1 - UCLA
0 - Tufts</p>

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<p>Interesting indeed...and I'm sure Harvard and Yale still top the list, but it would be interesting to see how much the gap between them and other schools has widened this year thanks to the superior financial aid options at those two.</p>

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<p>Note that this is derived directly from the Revealed</a> Preference Rankings, a study (cited at the bottom of that NYT link) which was done in the 04-05 school year, published in Dec 05, and has not been updated since. So it's more than 3 years old at this point. I wish they'd do it again, frankly, since it's my favorite method of comparison (the only one that really makes sense, frankly) and I'm an Applied Math geek so i'm naturally drawn.</p>