Princeton Review's Dream Colleges

College Search & Selection
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<p>Princeton</a> Review's College Hopes & Worries 2008 Survey Reports Top 10 Dream Colleges of Student Applicants and of Parents</p>

<p>Top 10 Dream Colleges
For the survey's only fill-in-the-blank question, "What 'dream college' do you wish you could attend (or see your child attend) if acceptance or cost weren't issues?":</p>

<p>The schools students most named were:</p>

<p>Harvard
Stanford
Princeton
New York Univ.
Yale
Brown
Columbia
Cornell
Univ. of Southern California
UCLA </p>

<p>The schools parents most named were:</p>

<p>Princeton
Stanford
Harvard
New York Univ.
Notre Dame
Cornell
Duke
Yale
MIT
Brown</p>

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<p>I'm shocked that Cornell made both lists. I thought the bitter cold weather would be a factor.</p>

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<p>Definitely I would never had thought Cornell would make the list. I don't think I would want to send my child to a school where academics are so brutal. Not to mention the extent their pre-med kids go to get good grades (i.e tear out pages out the college library books and leave the next borrower hopeless)</p>

<p>I wonder what makes Univ. Of southern Cali students dream school</p>

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<p>USC -- California dreaming. Palm trees, beaches, the SoCal mystique. Great football tradition. Top-notch film school and the Hollywood connection. Good private school with an attractive student body.</p>

<p>Actually, it is the kids who named USC a dream school. But if more parents had, those are some of the things they would be thinking, right or wrong.</p>

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<p>i guess Berkeley is not so desirable. well it's true there all hippies there</p>

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<p>^ Nah Berkeley's too tough academically...kids want all glamour and no hard work these days.</p>

<p>Sad, sad times...I worry for our country.</p>

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<p>The only ivy not present on either list is Penn....interesting</p>

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<p>^yeah i was intrigued by that...
in the philadelphia area there are a wealth of parents/students who would give their arm to have any connection to Penn...</p>

<p>its a good school...i like it anyway...</p>

<p>DARTMOUTH wasn't on the list either :(</p>

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<p>I imagine Cornell/MIT showed up on the list for the students/parents that were into engineering and science. Only schools on either list I looked at for undgrad/grad, too.</p>

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<p>yeah notre dame!
why would brown be on both lists?</p>