<p>I’m from Wisconsin, I’d say St. Olafs is nowhere close to UMTC. Not that St. Olafs is a bad school (I have family who went there) but the major State schools in the Midwest carry a pretty special prestige among the people of the state. In Minnesota, you can say “the U” and people will know what you’re talking about.</p>
<p>Wisconsin:</p>
<p>UW-Madison</p>
<p>Big Gap</p>
<p>Marquette
UW-La Crosse</p>
<p>Ohio: </p>
<ol>
<li>Case Western</li>
<li>Ohio State</li>
<li>Oberlin, with Miami, Kenyon and Denison nipping at its heels.</li>
</ol>
<p>Indiana</p>
<p>U of Notre Dame
DePauw
Wabash</p>
<p>NY:</p>
<p>columbia
cornell
vassar</p>
<p>[Top</a> Ranked Schools by State](<a href=“USA University College Directory - U.S. University Directory - State Universities and College Rankings”>Top Ranked Schools by State)</p>
<p>Georgia:</p>
<p>Emory
Georgia Tech
U Georgia</p>
<p>South:</p>
<p>Duke
Emory/Rice
Davidson/Vanderbilt</p>
<p>Ontario (province but close enough)
-U. Toronto
-Queens
-Mcmaster</p>
<p>Alam, Davidson, Emory, Rice, UNC, UVa and Vanderbilt are all equally good.</p>
<p>TK, once again you surprise me with information I was never aware of. That link to state by state college rankings is so refreshing. They rank using all the traditional methods MINUS any of the highly contestable peer assessments.</p>
<p>NJ:</p>
<p>Princeton
Rutgers - New Brunswick, Newark
Stevens Institute of Tech</p>
<p>CT -
Yale
Connecticut College or Wesleyan (I really don’t know much about these schools anyhow)
UConn</p>
<p>You might be interested in this thread which ranks schools in each state by SAT score beginning on the second page.</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/563455-most-selective-colleges-based-sats.html?highlight=selective[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/563455-most-selective-colleges-based-sats.html?highlight=selective</a></p>