<p>Ohio:
Oberlin
Kenyon
CWRU/OSU Honors</p>
<p>Lol.... somehow even this thread got hijacked.....its now a "world class universities" thread</p>
<p>Btw...I thought the list for NY would consistantly have Columbia, Cornell and NYU.... but NYU doesn't seem to be so popular.... why?</p>
<p>Virgina-(Not considering liberal art colleges, because they should be in another category)
UVA
William and Mary
and Virginia Tech in my opinion</p>
<p>I am wondering why you would put Marlboro above Bennington in Vermont? I believe they are both good schools, but Bennington is top tier according to USnews, as opposed to Marlboro which is 3rd tier. Bennington's SAT scores are higher, graduation rate is higher, and has better name recognition. What criteria are you going on?</p>
<p>Sorry, the above post was directed to JuJu</p>
<p>
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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.
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You obviously don't know much about KY then, so probably shouldn't talk about it. </p>
<p>I am a graduate of the Univ. of Louisville, and it is a fine school. All of the people I know of who graduated there have successful careers including my H and I, who majored in computer engineering well before most uni's even had a computer engr program; we were recruited by large out of state corporations. UofL has medical, dental, and law schools, and a huge number of PhD programs. A classmate of mine is now head of oncology at a Los Angeles hospital. UofL's Speed Art Museum is first-class. </p>
<p>Another thread recently used UofL as their example of a place of "sports with a school attached" or something like that. I was annoyed, didn't respond then. Now I feel compelled. I don't remember sports being an especially big deal as a student. However, KY has no professional sports teams, so the university system fills that void for the general population. Considering the fact that the city I live in now is regularly held financial hostage by the local professional sports team owners ("build-us-a-new-stadium-or-we-will-leave"), maybe KY's way is better. </p>
<p>According to collegeboard, the middle 50% ACT at UofL is 21-27; and at highly touted Purdue (where a much higher percent of the students are in engineering) it is 23-28. Not much difference, huh?</p>
<p>My H and I are proud to send in our alumni donations, because we know we have UofL to thank for our success.</p>
<p>By region:</p>
<p>Midwest:
Uchicago
Northwestern
WUSTL</p>
<p>West:
Stanford
CalTech
Pomona-Berkeley</p>
<p>East:
Harvard-Yale-Princeton-MIT
Brown-Columbia-Dartmouth-Amherst-Swarthmore-Williams
Cornell</p>
<p>South:
Duke
Georgetown (Not sure if DC counts as south)
Rice</p>
<p><a href="http://www.berkeley.edu/about/honors/grad/%5B/url%5D">http://www.berkeley.edu/about/honors/grad/</a></p>
<p>Like Cornell (but less true so Cornell), Berkeley has a lot of great graduate programs outside of the sciences which do quite well.</p>
<p>allthosethings,
Admittedly, no criteria--just writing what came to mind... Bennington could go there just as easily as Marlboro, for sure.</p>
<p>I'd include Michigan in Midwest.</p>
<p>I live in New Jersey. From what I've seen, Rutgers - New Brunswick is more highly regarded than TCNJ.</p>
<ol>
<li>Princeton</li>
<li>Rutgers - New Brunswick</li>
<li>TCNJ</li>
</ol>
<p>I'd take TCNJ over Rutgers any day.</p>
<p>What's with all these Noobs ranking cali schools so horribly?</p>
<p>This is legit:</p>
<p>West:
Stanford
CalTech
Pomona/Harvey Mudd</p>
<p>silly gooses...</p>
<p>Virginia
College of William and Mary
UVA
Virginia Tech</p>
<p>Kentucky
Centre
UK
Louisville</p>
<p>Texas
Rice
UT Austin
University of Dallas</p>
<p>Ohio
Miami of Ohio
The Ohio State University
Xavier</p>
<p>Yeah noob. Any West/Cali/whatever list w/o UCB is n00bish.</p>
<p>Texas
Rice
UT Austin
University of Dallas</p>
<p>Ohio
Miami of Ohio
The Ohio State University
Xavier</p>
<p>Ever heard of SMU, Baylor, Trinity, TAMU, Austin College, Oberlin, CWRU, Wooster, Kenyon, Denison???</p>
<p>Yeah, I'd have to agree that University of Dallas (Did you mean UT-Dallas? Actually, that would make little difference) is out of place on that list for Texas.</p>
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Yeah noob. Any West/Cali/whatever list w/o UCB is n00bish.
[/quote]
</p>
<p>Berkeley would be 4th. The Claremont Consortium is better for undergraduate education. Most knowledgeable people would agree with that. If Caltech is in the top 3, then there's no reason why Pomona/HMC shouldn't be as well. Pomona/HMC are less focused schools than Caltech because of the Consortium, so they shouldn't be left out because they are "too specialized". However, for graduate education Berkeley is definitely in the top 3.</p>
<p>
[quote]
Ohio
Miami of Ohio
The Ohio State University
Xavier
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</p>
<p>Completely false!!!! Those three schools don't even belong in the top 3. Ever heard of Oberlin, Kenyon, and Case? </p>
<p>Xavier? Give me a break.....</p>
<p>
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I'd take TCNJ over Rutgers any day.
[/quote]
I graduated from high school last year, and the smartest kids in my class all went to Rutgers - about 20-30. Only a few went to TCNJ.</p>
<p>Washington
1. Whitman
2. University of Puget Sound
3. UW</p>