The average person's Top 25

I am taking the original top 25 and the “not make the cut list” and re-ordering based on my biases having lived in the northeast, midwest and south.

  1. Harvard
  2. Yale
  3. Princeton
  4. MIT
  5. Stanford
  6. Columbia
  7. Duke
  8. UC Berkeley
  9. UVA
  10. Caltech
  11. UPenn
  12. Cornell
  13. Dartmouth
  14. Northwestern
  15. UCLA
  16. Michigan
  17. UNC Chapel Hill
  18. Georgetown
  19. Brown
  20. BC
  21. Johns Hopkins
  22. Wash U.
  23. Wisconsin ​Madison
  24. Vandy
  25. Notre Dame

A few top schools I think would be forgotten/wouldn’t make the cut:
Chicago
Penn State
BU
NYU
Rice