Rank top 10 national universities and LACs in the same list

College Search & Selection
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<p>No order</p>

<p>Harvard
Yale
Princeton
Williams
Swathmore
Chicago
Caltech
Mit
Stanford
Pomona </p>

<p>Penn
UCLA
Dartmouth
Amherst
Hopkins</p>

<p>Also, why is Reed getting some loving here?</p>

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<p>Fugliest student body:

  1. Carnegie Mellon
  2. Caltech
  3. MIT
  4. Williams
  5. Swarthmore
  6. Carleton
  7. Allegheny
  8. Beloit
  9. Case Western
  10. Lawrence
  11. Grinnell
  12. Wesleyan</p>
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<p>I’ll edit my top 20:</p>

<ol>
<li>Harvard, Stanford, MIT</li>
<li>Princeton</li>
<li>Yale, Berkeley, Caltech</li>
<li><p>Northwestern, JHU, UPenn, Columbia, Duke</p></li>
<li><p>Cornell, Michigan, Rice, Chicago</p></li>
<li><p>Mudd, Williams, Amherst</p></li>
<li><p>CMU, Georgia Tech, Swarthmore, UVA </p></li>
</ol>

<p>

from my orientation, yes. I didn’t even consider Yale, quite honestly, as I was applying for computer science, back then, and Berkeley is so much better than Yale for comsci, whether you agree with me or not. So, if there’s anything ridiculous here–it’s your comment.</p>

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<p>RML - No Dartmouth in the top 20?</p>

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<p>^ no Dartmouth and no Brown in my personal list. it’s just my personal list.</p>

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<p>No order ( just top 15 listed), base on education etc… ( and some guidance from USNEWS since I couldn’t possibly dig up all the information myself in a short time):</p>

<p>Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Pennslyvania, Stanford, Swarthmore, Columbia, Duke, Chicago, Dartmouth, Cornell, Washington University in St.Louis, Massachuettes Insititute of Technology, Brown, New York University</p>

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<p>

If I had to give an ideal of my ranking, it would be:

  1. Harvard, Princeton, Yale
  2. Stanford
  3. Pennslyvania, Swarthmore
  4. Columbia
  5. Chicago, Duke
  6. Dartmouth, Cornell
  7. New York University, Washington University in St. Louis
  8. Massachuettes Institute of Technology, Brown</p>
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<p>fugliest CC screennames</p>

<ol>
<li>tortilinguist</li>
<li>2hot4u</li>
<li>vinnyli</li>
<li>dmvmom</li>
<li>stuckbisquit</li>
<li>snappl80</li>
<li>twisteddad</li>
<li>dubyalvr</li>
<li>crumblsonimpact</li>
<li>gitwittaprogram</li>
</ol>

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<p>I think my screen name is a bit underrated. It should be ranked at number 2, at least lol. And that list of ugly student body wasn’t by me, btw. It was by college pr_owler.</p>

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<p>I’ll limit it to 10, since that’s all you’re asking for. Not tiered, just a list that pairs together similar schools.</p>

<p>Yale
Princeton</p>

<p>Stanford
Notre Dame</p>

<p>Columbia</p>

<p>Georgetown</p>

<p>Dartmouth
Williams</p>

<p>Brown
Amherst</p>

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<p>that’s okay. i made up most of the names. :p</p>

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<p>I saw someone say “AWSP” for LACs, but I would suggest the more memorable “WASP”. Not saying Williams is better but WASP sounds much better than AWSP.</p>

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<p>^^ Sounds kinda WASPY though.</p>

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<p>^^^Is that a bad thing?</p>

35

<p>Harvard/ Yale/ Princeton
MIT/ Caltech
Columbia/ Dartmouth/ Amherst/ Williams/ Brown/ Penn</p>

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<p>Stanford and Notre Dame together? Georgetown on the list. You must have some Catholic/Jesuit thing going on.</p>

<p>Harvard
Stanford
Yale
Prince
MIT
Williams
Amherst
Columbia
Pomona
Penn</p>

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<p>Princeton
MIT
Stanford
Harvard
Dartmouth
Yale
Swarthmore
Brown
Amherst
Caltech</p>

<p>It’s difficult to make this list because I believe the best schools are often those that are most polarized towards a particular area, so some of these schools lean towards opposite directions but they are common in that most of them lean in some direction.</p>

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<p>My top 10 personally, for undergrad.</p>

<p>Princeton
MIT
Yale
Stanford
Chicago
Swarthmore
Dartmouth
Williams
Amherst
Columbia</p>

<p>I also admire Deep Springs quite a lot and almost applied, but it was excluded since its curriculum is not comparable to other universities…</p>

<p>I excluded Caltech because (again, in my opinion) a truly great college should be able to offer education in diverse fields.</p>

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<p>"I’ll limit it to 10, since that’s all you’re asking for. Not tiered, just a list that pairs together similar schools.</p>

<p>Yale
Princeton</p>

<p>Stanford
Notre Dame</p>

<p>Columbia</p>

<p>Georgetown</p>

<p>Dartmouth
Williams</p>

<p>Brown
Amherst"</p>

<p>Some of these pairings are ODD (pun intended), to say the least.</p>

<p>Kind of insulting to Stanford, IMHO.</p>

<p>Except for the fact that they play football against each other yearly, Stanford and Notre Dame have almost nothing in common.</p>

<p>Also, Brown seems more “hippy slacker,” whereas Amherst seems more “preppy jock.”</p>

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<p>Amherst
Carleton
Chicago
Dartmouth
Harvard
Northwestern
Princeton
Stanford
Washington U
Williams</p>