TOP 10 American Colleges/Universities

College Search & Selection
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<p>Take the previously posted list, knock off the weakest school and replace it with your nomination. If you're motivated, you can rank strongest to weakest. I'd love to go deeper than 10, but we're a Top 10 culture and chances are same schools will be climbing onto the list and then getting relegated to the scrapheap. Forget US News and World Report because you know some schools just game it, although the academic reputation (on a 5 scale) in far left column would approximate this list. For example, Chicago can't really expect to stay top 10 with a 40% accept rate, and neither can a Big Ten school (Northwestern, Michigan) when they take 100 000 students each.<br>
Harvard
Yale
Princeton
Williams
Stanford
Amherst
Dartmouth
Duke
MIT
CalTech</p>

<p>No Penn (BSchool+, The Donald --, Ivanka-)
CalTech and MIT grudgingly (might as well throw Swarthmore in as well then). Columbia, just miss. Chicago, no Milton Friedman. Brown, too many kids from Choate, but as close as anyone. Cornell, for hockey only - until this year. Middlebury for getting ranked so high (weren't they a party school way back when, sort of like Brown, but you had a criminal record) and Bowdoin for captivating the liberal arts spirit. Honorable mention to Reed College for refusing to answer USNewsWorldReport survey, but still getting fair treatment...not...and 53 ranking. And to Tufts for having to overcome low peer ratings even though it s a top 20 school. And Cal is up there but this 'based on test scores' anti Asian thing, I don't get it...Cal could easily be top 10. Have fun.</p>

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<p>Let's not.</p>

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<p>This seems a little unnecessary.. there's way too many factors to list out before you can start ranking schools. Some schools are better for a particular major than another.</p>

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<p>lol people will kill each other lol, all top 100 schools are great =D</p>

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all top 100 schools are great

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<p>Well, I wouldn't say all 100.</p>

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<p>How about let's not do this? HAHA</p>

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<p>I would say Tier 1 and Tier 2 schools as ranked are well above average colleges and universities. Keep in mind, there are over 6000 colleges and universities in the US. Top 100-125 is pretty solid.</p>

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<p>Collegeboard only lists 4000 of them (including community colleges).
Where did you find the number of 6000?</p>

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<p>Well perhaps only 4000. I was told it was actually closer to 6500.</p>

<p>Either way top 100-125/4000 is still good.</p>

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<p>U of Chicago is obviously an outstanding school.
You cannot judge a school on its acceptance percentage. There are alot of really good schools Tier 1 and 2, that accept alot of the applicants merely because everyone that applies is a good match for it.</p>

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<p>amherst does not belong on there whatsoever. try Berkeley</p>

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<p>Talk about taking yourself too seriously...okay UChicago is exempt...I give them an honorary Top 10 permanent position...Yea you're right I've posted to often and out of turn...I'll go to Pokerstars or Nascar or TheBears web site and turn my life around.</p>

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<p>By the way, the applicants at UChic are, like Caltech, very self-selecting, which is why it seems UChic has lower standards, but it doesn't.</p>

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<p>Ball State is clearly a top 10 school. Jeez.</p>

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<ol>
<li>Harvard (cant argue with that)</li>
<li>Yale</li>
<li>Princeton</li>
<li>Dartmouth</li>
<li>Amherst</li>
<li>Stanford</li>
<li>Williams</li>
<li>MIT</li>
<li>Cal Tech</li>
<li>Middlebury</li>
</ol>

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<p>ill through mine in their....</p>

<ol>
<li>Princeton</li>
<li>Harvard</li>
<li>Yale</li>
<li>Stanford</li>
<li>Dartmouth</li>
<li>MIT
7.Amherst</li>
<li>Columbia</li>
<li>Cal Tech</li>
<li>The University of Notre Dame bias</li>
</ol>

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<p>Imo UChic's high acceptance rate is not so much due to its "self-selecting applicant pool" (if you believe in that) but due to its low yield rate... only like 30%, which tells us that its not the first choice of most successful applicants. With a yield rate of about 60% (like Stanford), its acceptance rate would be in the 20-25% range instead of 40%.</p>

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<ol>
<li>WashU</li>
<li>Harvard</li>
<li>Yale</li>
<li>Stanford</li>
<li>Dartmouth</li>
<li>MIT
7.Amherst</li>
<li>Columbia</li>
<li>Cal Tech</li>
<li>The University of Notre Dame</li>
</ol>

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<p>Don't even see why WashU should be top of the list</p>

<ol>
<li>Harvard </li>
<li>Yale</li>
<li>Princeton</li>
<li>MIT</li>
<li>Williams</li>
<li>Stanford</li>
<li>U of Penn</li>
<li>Dartmouth</li>
<li>Cal Tech</li>
<li>Amherst</li>
</ol>

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<p>hi, just want to input on something hehe...so many people on this forum keep on saying that blah has a percent rise in apps and it is harder to get in, however, one should note that it is possible that despite the rise in apps and the lowered admit rate the overall quality pool could have decreased...therfore i think that uchic although has such a high admit rate and low yield rate are still admiting students who have already self selected themselves, although the pool may not be as impressive as stanford's it is still extremely good =D</p>