the 3 best colleges in each state

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<p>New England States: (just my opinion)</p>

<p>Maine:
1) Bates
2) Bowdoin
3) Colby</p>

<p>New Hampshire:
1) Dartmouth
2) UNH
3) St. Anselm</p>

<p>Vermont:
1) Middlebury
2) UVM
3) Marlboro</p>

<p>Massachusetts:
1) Harvard
2) MIT
3) Amherst
(4-Williams; 5-Wellesley; 6-Olin; 7-Tufts; 8-BC; 9-Smith; 10-Mt. Holyoke, etc. So many! Holy Cross, BU, UMass, Northeastern, Emerson, Suffolk, etc.)</p>

<p>Connecticut:
1) Yale
2) Wesleyan
3) Trinity
(4-Connecticut College; 5-UConn.)</p>

<p>Rhode Island:
1) Brown
2) RISD
3) Providence</p>

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<p>New York:
1) Columbia
2) Cornell
3) West Point
(4-Vassar; 5-Colgate; 6-Bard; 7-Union, etc. Many great colleges! Oh, Cooper Union too! Probably before Vassar.)</p>

<p>Illinois:
1) Northwestern
2) UChicago
3) UIUC</p>

<p>California:
1) Stanford
2) Berkeley
3) Claremont Colleges</p>

<p>Ohio:
1) Oberlin
2) Case Western
3) Kenyon</p>

<p>Wisconsin:
1) UW-Madison
2) Lawrence
3) Marquette</p>

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<p>I would say that Hamilton, RPI, URochester are all more highly regarded than Bard or Union.</p>

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<p>good call, gellino. I agree. Sorry, I forgot those schools... after bard and union, syracuse, skidmore, st. lawrence, sarah lawrence, RIT, SUNY-Binghampton--tons of great schools in NY.</p>

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<p>hey could anyone rate best undergrad business schools in texas most preferably houston and dallas?</p>

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<p>Mass-Harvard,MIT,Amherst,Williams,Wellesley,Tufts,Olin,Smith,Holy Cross, Mt.Holyoke. Penn-Upenn, Swarthmore, Haverford, Bucknell,Lehigh,Lafayette,Villanova.California-Stanford, CalTech,Berk,UCLA,USC. Illinois-UChicago, NU, Illinois.</p>

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<p>Virginia:</p>

<ol>
<li>University of Virginia</li>
<li>William and Mary</li>
<li>Virginia Tech</li>
</ol>

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<p>Virginia is interesting. I think it might be the only state where arguably the three best schools are state run public schools.</p>

<p>But since this is CC I am sure there will be 8 billion people telling me how wrong I am.</p>

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<p>California:
1. UC Berkeley
2. Stanford
3. CalTech</p>

<p>New York:
1. Columbia
2. Cornell
3. NYU</p>

<p>Mass:
1. Harvard
2. MIT
3 Amherst</p>

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<p>Cal-Tech
Stanford
UC Berkeley</p>

<p>The Claremonts are great and all but they are getting a bit overrated on these boards. There is no way i would put them in front of a school like Berkeley.</p>

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<p>If we were to separate them by undergrad and grad, then:</p>

<p>California (undergrad):</p>

<p>Stanford
Cal-Tech
Pomona</p>

<p>Calfornia (grad):</p>

<p>Stanford
Berkeley
CalTech</p>

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<p>Washington</p>

<p>UW- There is no doubt that UW kicks arse for the sciences. Medicine, and such are its strong suits. Undergraduate programs are intense and difficult. Driven freshman will do fine. </p>

<p>Whitman-A superb unknown liberal arts college, that simply is incredible for anyone wanting a liberal arts education.</p>

<p>From here on out the list is harder. Seattle University, University of Puget Sound, and Gonzaga are all distinctly different but great. Seattle U is an urban school. All 3 are very good in education, and the real differences are more location and atmosphere. SU has the most "mature" atmosphere, due to a large portion of older students. Gonzaga is a great Division I school, with a lot of people and an experience more like UW. UPS is an incredible school, located in a beautiful part of the state, and with good programs.</p>

<p>But that's just me. And I'm going off what people from these schools have told me.</p>

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<p>The Claremonts are in no way overrated ucchris.</p>

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<p>penn st. before swat, haverford, lehigh, etc.? i don't think so.

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<p>Earth probably does though.</p>

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<p>According to what's been done by the universities recently...
California:
UC Berkeley
UC Los Angeles
UC San Diego</p>

<p>If you don't believe, see the Washington Post's rankings.
GO SD!</p>

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<p>What about Stanford, CalTech, Pomona, Claremont McKenna or even USC?</p>

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<p>yo, ithemachine is a noob</p>

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<p>Virginia</p>

<p>William & Mary
Washington & Lee
U of Virginia/U of Richmond</p>

<p>North Carolina</p>

<p>Duke
Davidson
Wake Forest</p>

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<ol>
<li>JHU</li>
<li>Gerogetown</li>
<li>UMCP</li>
</ol>

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<p>Washington:</p>

<p>UW
Seattle Pacific
Whitman
(why are there so few private colleges in Washington?)</p>

<p>Let's face it, with 35+ million people, California is a country, not a state. Los Angeles County alone has more people than Washington state. I'm going to break it into thirds:</p>

<p>Southern Cal:</p>

<p>Claremont Colleges
UCLA
California Institute of Technology
(Honorable mention to USC)</p>

<p>Central Coast and Inland:</p>

<p>UC Santa Barbara
UC Davis
Cal Poly San Luis Obispo</p>

<p>Northern California:</p>

<p>Berkeley
Stanford
San Jose State?
hmmm... you would think the San Francisco area would have more schools, wouldn't you?</p>