<p>let's make a thread of the 3 best colleges in each state because I'm bored...</p>
<p>Ill start off with one that won't be too disputed..</p>
<p>maryland:</p>
<p>johns hopkins
U MD college park
idk.. maybe US naval academy? or loyola..</p>
<p>massachusetts:</p>
<p>harvard
MIT
tufts??</p>
<p>etc
now add to the thread!</p>
<p>I think this has been done...but why the hell not. I'll evaluate my residency:</p>
<p>Texas:
Rice University
University of Texas - Austin
University of Texas - Dallas</p>
<p>Yeah I'm sure that's not how most people see it...colleges in Texas for the most part suck. Gettin outta here!</p>
<p>Massachusetts (IMO):
Harvard
MIT
Amherst</p>
<p>okay, i hate to admit it, but Texas A&M is probably a better school than UT Dallas.</p>
<p>IL:
U of Chicago
Northwestern U
UIUC</p>
<p>CA:
Stanford
CalTech
Berkeley</p>
<p>lol saw that coming! Ok maybe, but I just hate to put TAMU in the top 3 schools of Texas...it really makes me realize how sad the situation has become.</p>
<p>IL:
NORTHWESTERN!
Chicago
Illinois </p>
<p>Also, this was done like a week ago. LOL</p>
<p>Alabama:
Samford University
Auburn University
Jacksonville State University</p>
<p>Wow that was painful.</p>
<p>Alaska (hehe):</p>
<p>Alaska Pacific University
University of Alaska Southeast
University of Alaska Fairbanks</p>
<p>Arizona:
University of Arizona
Arizona State University
Northern Arizona University </p>
<p>Arkansas:
Hendrix College
University of Arkansas
Harding </p>
<p>California:
Stanford
California Institute of Tech.
UC - Berkeley</p>
<p>Colorado:
Colorado College
Colorado School of Mines
University of Colorado - Boulder</p>
<p>Virginia:</p>
<p>College of William and Mary
University of Virginia
Washington and Lee</p>
<p>NY
Cornell
Columbia
U Rochester
runner-up RPI</p>
<p>LACs
Colgate
Hamilton
Vassar</p>
<p>Connecticut:
Yale (duh)
Wesleyan
Trinity </p>
<p>Delaware:
University of Delaware
Wesley College
Delaware State University
(also painful)</p>
<p>Florida:
New College of Florida
Florida State University
University of Miami</p>
<p>Georgia:
Emory University
Georgia Institute of Technology
University of Georgia</p>
<p>Hawaii:
Hawaii Pacific College
Brigham Young University - Hawaii
University of Hawaii - something who knows who cares</p>
<p>Idaho:
Idaho State
University of Idaho
Brigham Young University - Idaho</p>
<p>Illinois:
University of Chicago
Northwestern
University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign</p>
<p>Indiana:
University of Notre Dame
Holy Cross College
Purdue University</p>
<p>Iowa:
Grinnell
Iowa State
University of Iowa</p>
<p>Kansas:
University of Kansas
Kansas State University
Wichita State University</p>
<p>Kentucky:
University of Kentucky
Transylvania
??????</p>
<p>Nebraska:</p>
<p>University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Creighton University
University of Nebraska - Omaha</p>
<p>Pennsylvania:
Penn
Carnegie Mellon
Haverford or Lehigh</p>
<p>North Carolina:
Duke
Chapel Hill tied w/Wake Forest</p>
<p>District of Columbia:
G'town
GW
American</p>
<p>Centre is definitely in Kentucky's top 3.</p>
<p>I agree w/ Raindrop. I believe that Centre's more selective than UK.
3rd is so far in the basement, I can't think of any.</p>
<p>Connecticut:
Yale
Wesleyan
Connecticut College</p>
<p>Mass:
MIT
Harvard
Williams/Amherst</p>
<p>RI:
Brown
Providence College
URI?</p>
<p>I'm not really educated on Kentucky's colleges...please correct my list when you feel necessary...I'm just bored. :)</p>
<p>Mass:
Harvard
MIT
Amherst/Williams</p>
<p>Utah:
Brigham-Young University
University of Utah
Utah State University</p>
<p>Michigan:
University of Michigan - Ann Harbor
Kalamazoo
Michigan State</p>
<p>Missourri:
Washington University in St. Louis
?????
?????</p>
<p>New York:
Columbia
Cornell
NYU</p>
<p>with honors recognition going to Colgate and Vassar.</p>