<p>But that's not a ranking question. If it were just up to preferences, my top 3 would be:</p>
<p>Berkeley
UCSB
UCSD</p>
<p>Really...</p>
<p>But in terms of the question:</p>
<p>Berkeley
Caltech
Stanford</p>
<p>Texas:</p>
<p>Rice
UT-Austin
Trinity OR SMU</p>
<p>I was under the impression Baylor was pretty good in Texas...</p>
<p>Where's that fall?</p>
<p>Bed Head...if I ranked all the top-level schools in Texas, it would look something like this</p>
<p>Rice
UT-Austin
Trinity & SMU - basically the same level
Texas A&M
Baylor & TCU - basically the same level
UT-Dallas
Texas Tech</p>
<p>All of those schools are quite good. Baylor is a pretty good school, and if you get into one of their stronger programs, it can be very good.</p>
<p>I'd think that on most criteria, Pomona would be a clearly better undergrad experience than Berkeley. The only areas in which Berkeley would be better would be those which require large size - highly technical or specialized majors, PAC-10 athletics, etc. The academic qualifications of the Pomona student body wold be considerably more selective and elite than those of Berkeley's.</p>
<p>^Yeah I second that. The same thing can be said for HMC too except it offers less majors than pomona.</p>
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<p>Baylor is overpriced for the education one could get at UT, A&M, or Rice (all cheaper). Baylor's medical school, however, is excellent, but for some reason people get that confused with the undergraduate college, which is nothing impressive and the easiest of these schools (UT, A&M, Rice, Baylor) to get into.</p>
<p>California</p>
<p>What about:</p>
<p>Chico,
Humbolt,
&
Monterey Bay</p>
<p>Best Schools in DC/Baltimore Metro Area </p>
<p>Georgetown
JHU
US Naval</p>
<p>North Carolina</p>
<p>Duke
Davidson
Wake Forest</p>
<p>Virginia</p>
<p>William & Mary
Washington & Lee
UVirginia</p>
<p>swish: I agree with Duke and Davidson, but I'd put UNC-CH way, way above Wake Forest. So, in alphabetical order . . .</p>
<p>Davidson
Duke
UNC-CH</p>
<p>Mass.</p>
<ol>
<li>MIT
T2. Amherst
T2. Williams</li>
<li>Harvard</li>
<li>Olin</li>
<li>Wellesley</li>
<li>Tufts
T8. BC
T8. Brandeis</li>
<li>Mt. Holyoke</li>
</ol>
<p>what is this stuff with BU in the top 10 come on</p>
<p>NC</p>
<ol>
<li>Duke</li>
<li>Wake</li>
<li>UNC</li>
<li>Davidson </li>
<li>Elon</li>
</ol>
<p>NY</p>
<ol>
<li>Columbia</li>
<li>Cornell</li>
<li>West Point</li>
<li>Vassar</li>
<li>Colgate</li>
<li>NYU</li>
<li>Hamilton</li>
<li>SUNY Binghamton</li>
<li>SUNY Stony Brook</li>
<li>SUNY Geneseo</li>
</ol>
<p>VA</p>
<ol>
<li>UVA</li>
<li>W&M</li>
<li>W&L</li>
<li>UofR</li>
<li>VT</li>
</ol>
<p>usc would beat berkeley</p>
<p>I notice that for all the Cali debates, Deep Springs hasn't been mentioned once. It's the most selective of all!</p>
<p>Deep Springs is also a 2 year institution.</p>
<p>usc doesn't beat berkeley. I think the only debatable schools for cali are pomona vs. berkeley. </p>
<p>The other two are stanford and caltech.</p>
<p>hahah usc over berkeley thats funny</p>
<p>I would say in a heartbeat that Pomona is a better undergraduate institution than Berkeley. I would also venture to guess that most graduate schools would agree, that a graduate from Pomona recieved a more thorough and more detailed education than that of a Berkeley graduate. I'm not going to argue that Pomona is better than Stanford and Caltech(although i do think it's kind of impossible to compare a school like Pomona with Caltech), but I think that Pomona is a significantly better undergraduate school than Berkeley.</p>
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Baylor is overpriced for the education one could get at UT, A&M, or Rice (all cheaper). Baylor's medical school, however, is excellent, but for some reason people get that confused with the undergraduate college, which is nothing impressive and the easiest of these schools (UT, A&M, Rice, Baylor) to get into.
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<p>Actually, brand_182, the Baylor College of Medicine is not even associated with Baylor University. It makes things very confusing.</p>