search for the elites

College Search & Selection
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<p>could anyone suggest me with the name of some of the elites colleges. are elites n ivy differrent?</p>

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<p>Ivies
Stanford
MIT
Caltech
Duke
Johns Hopkins
Swarthmore
Haverford
Pomona
Carleton
Middlebury
Williams
Amherst
Bowdoin</p>

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<p>Elites?</p>

<p>Well there is no definite list. The Ivies are elite. They aren't really "different".</p>

<p>Ivies
MIT
Stanford
Caltech
Duke
Northwestern
Rice
U Chicago</p>

<p>And some LAC's</p>

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<p>I'd say top 20 NUs and top 15 LACs would be included in a general reference. Any school with a 1350+ avg SAT and below 30% acceptance rate.</p>

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<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivy_League%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivy_League&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>"Elite" is a very elusive term. I think gellino comes fairly close with his definition of a school with a SAT average (CR and Math) of 1350 or higher and 30% admissions rate, but that would leave out such world-class institutions as the University of California Berkeley, the University of Michigan, and the University of Virginia.</p>

<p>Here is my list, and I freely admit that is is certainly incomplete.</p>

<p>Reknowned research institutions with extremely talented student bodies:</p>

<p>Harvard
Yale
Princeton
Cornell
Columbia
Duke University
Stanford University
The University of Pennsylvania
MIT
CalTech
Johns Hopkins
University of Chicago
Northwestern University</p>

<p>Reknowned research institutions with very talented student bodies:</p>

<p>University of Michigan
University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Los Angeles
University of Virginia
University of Wisconsin
University of Texas
University of North Carolina</p>

<p>Large universities with extremely talented student bodies that are not as well-known for research:</p>

<p>Washington University in St. Louis
Carnegie Mellon
Vanderbilt
Emory
Brown
Dartmouth
Georgetown
Notre Dame</p>

<p>Small colleges (liberal arts colleges) with extremely talented student bodies:</p>

<p>Amherst
Williams
Wesleyan
Bowdoin
Pomona
Claremont McKenna
Harvey Mudd (engineering)
Vassar
Barnard (women)
Wellesley (women)
Bryn Mawr (women)
Swarthmore
Mt. Holyoke (women)
Haverford
Reed
Carleton
Grinnell</p>

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<p>That's a pretty good list, but would certainly include Rice and Tufts if you include Notre Dame.</p>

<p>Reed and Grinnell are the self-selecting type of places with high SATs, but also relatively high acceptance rates. I would certainly add Middlebury, Colgate, Washington & Lee, Hamilton, Colby, Bates to the list of LACs.</p>

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<p>I agree w/ Gellino - Rice, Middlebury, & Tufts need to be added to any list of "elite" universities/colleges.</p>

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<p>it's funny, I don't think of Rice as elite. Smart students, great academics, selective, definitely... but elite makes me think of East Coast schools established before Texas was a state.</p>

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<p>Same would go for Northwestern, Stanford, Chicago, WashU, Caltech etc.</p>

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<p>i don't really think of them as elite either (except maybe Stanford). I just commented on Rice because that's where I'll be attending next year.</p>

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<p>theres got to be objective criteria in there somewhere: i like the idea of any school that has an average SAT over 1350, and/or acceptance rate under 1/3 of applicants.</p>

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<p>and gellino- if hamilton, colby and bates are on there, you cant leave out conn and trinity!!!</p>

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<p>Raindrop, elite has nothing to do with age. Chicago, Cornell, Johns Hopkins, MIT, Northwestern and Stanford were all founded well after 1850 and all of them are elite. Rice is elite too if you ask me.</p>

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<p>searching for the elites? hows about the people on this thread lol</p>

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<p>Elite:</p>

<p>Just take the Top CC Universities</p>

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<p>the CC list is out-of-date; I agree w/ Gellino that schools over a 1350 (I would say over a 1390/1400, but who cares) and @/under a 30% rate can be considered "elite". At that point nearly every applicant is top quality. Also, both Rice and Tufts definitely need to be added to the above list.</p>

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<p>okie thax i've already added them to my list. i so much hope that i end up getting into one of them.</p>

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<p>"I'd say top 20 NUs and top 15 LACs would be included in a general reference. Any school with a 1350+ avg SAT and below 30% acceptance rate."</p>

<p>chicago has an acceptance rate over 30%</p>

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<p>Acceptance rate is jaded when you are comparing a small university to a large university. But I definitely do agree with the places listed.</p>