<p>What is the rationale for putting Bates as #1? I'm not criticizing your choice (I'm interested in all three schools); I'm just wondering why you'd put Bates ahead of Bowdoin and Colby?</p>
<p>North Carolina:</p>
<ol>
<li>DUKE</li>
<li>Wake Forest</li>
<li>UNC</li>
</ol>
<p>okay, so maybe you can swap 2 and 3 lol</p>
<p>Arkansas
1. Hendrix College
2. University of Arkansas
3. Lyon College</p>
<p>Hmmm I agree with your selections, b'smom, but I'd say Maine's order would be changed a bit....</p>
<ol>
<li>Bowdoin College</li>
<li>Colby College</li>
<li>Bates College</li>
</ol>
<p>Arcata 07
Indiana:
IU
Purdue
Notre Dame</p>
<p>IU and Purdue over ND? Id like what your smoking please.</p>
<p>NH (My State)</p>
<p>Dartmouth
UNH
?????</p>
<p>I'm splitting California into North South and other</p>
<p>For undergrad:</p>
<p>North
Stanford
Cal
Santa Clara</p>
<p>South
UCLA
Claremont Colleges
USC</p>
<p>Other (Central and inland)
UC Davis
Cal Poly
UCSB</p>
<p>^^ good idea for splitting it up, but Cal Poly and UCSB are technically southern California. I live a little higher up (Mojave Desert) and my town's still considered to be in socal. I dunno why Caltech isn't even a contender in any of your lists, though.</p>
<p>Whoops replace USC with Caltech then. I always seem to forget Cal tech. I don't seem to know why it's an amazing university.</p>
<p>New Jersrey:
Princeton
Rutgers
NJIT</p>
<p>New York:
Cornell
Columbia
NYU</p>
<p>Rhode Island:
Brown University
University of Rhode Island
Johnson and Wales University</p>
<p>FSU has no spot in FL's top 3</p>
<p>UF
Rollins
UMiami or New College</p>
<p>Providence College over JWU in Rhode Island, I'd say -- unless re: culinary arts.</p>
<p>xanthom, if you look at student data like median SAT, % of students in top 10% of hs class on princeton review or collegedata, you will see that NYU is lower than Colgate, Vassar, Hamilton, RPI, URochester.</p>
<p>Georgia:
Emory
Georgia Tech
University of Georgia</p>
<p>California:
Caltech
Stanford
Pomona or Harvey Mudd</p>
<p>Illinois:</p>
<p>Northwestern
UChicago
UIUC</p>
<p>Illinois:
northwestern
uchicago
uiuc</p>
<p>texas:
rice
ut-austin
SMU</p>
<p>california:
caltech
stanford
pomona</p>
<p>new york:
columbia
cornell
urochester</p>
<p>
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xanthom, if you look at student data like median SAT, % of students in top 10% of hs class on princeton review or collegedata, you will see that NYU is lower than Colgate, Vassar, Hamilton, RPI, URochester.
[/quote]
</p>
<p>So you mean better in the sense that the average student there got better grades on the SATs and is in a higher percentile in his/her class? Fair enough. But I just want to say, don't assume that for all of NYU's schools. The average student in the College of Arts and Sciences and Stern are probably at least on par with the students at those schools. The TISCH students probably lower the stats for NYU a bit, because grades don't matter nearly as much as a good portfolio for them.</p>
<p>Plus, if you want to do a comparison of the actual education, I'm sure many of NYU's graduate schools (e.g. law) are much more prestigious than Vassar, Colgate, etc.</p>
<p>Pennsylvania rankings should be broken up into major universities and LACs.</p>
<h2>Major Universities</h2>
<ol>
<li>University of Pennsylvania</li>
<li>Carnegie Mellon University</li>
<li>University of Pittsburgh</li>
</ol>
<h2>Liberal Arts Colleges</h2>
<ol>
<li>Swarthmore College </li>
<li>Haverford College</li>
<li>Grove City College</li>
</ol>
<p>Lehigh University is also a great school that doesn't really fit either category.</p>