Top 25 schools that impress *you*

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No order (some have departments that’d doubly impress me if someone made the cut for it; others are noted for their difficulty for OOS students to get into):

Northwestern
Ohio State
UCB
UCLA
UMich OOS
Harvard
Stanford
Yale
Princeton
MIT
Brown
Dartmouth
Columbia
UNC-CH OOS
Cornell (CoE)
UPenn (Wharton)
Rutgers
Florida State
Notre Dame
Georgetown
Villanova
NYU Tisch
Syracuse
WUSTL
Vanderbilt

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**The World’s Most Admired Universities
Susan Adams Forbes Staff **

http://www3.forbes.com/leadership/the-worlds-most-admired-universities/2/

How does you list match up with Forbes “World’s Most Admired Universities”?

  1. Harvard
    • 2. University of Cambridge
    • 3. University of Oxford
  2. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  3. Stanford **6. University of California, Berkeley
    1. Princeton University
    2. Yale
    3. California Institute of Technology
    4. Columbia University
    5. University of Chicago 12. University of Tokyo *13. University of California, Los Angeles *14. Imperial College, London *15. ETH Zurich – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich *16. University of Toronto *17. University College London
    6. Johns Hopkins University **19. University of Michigan
    7. Cornell University (tie)
    8. New York University (tie)
  • Non-US Universities

** US Public University

US Only

  1. Harvard
  2. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  3. Stanford
  4. University of California, Berkeley
  5. Princeton University
  6. Yale
  7. California Institute of Technology
  8. Columbia University
  9. University of Chicago
  10. University of California, Los Angeles
  11. Johns Hopkins University
  12. University of Michigan
  13. Cornell University (tie)
  14. New York University (tie)
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No particular order -

  1. George Washington
  2. Emory
  3. Vanderbilt
  4. Harvard
  5. Yale
  6. Princeton
  7. Penn
  8. Stanford
  9. Williams
  10. Georgia Tech
  11. Tulane
  12. Duke
  13. MIT
  14. Dartmouth
  15. Wellesley
  16. Swarthmore
  17. UGA
  18. Auburn
  19. Harvey Mudd
  20. Rhodes
  21. Sewanee
  22. Georgetown
  23. William and Mary
  24. Samford
  25. Belmont

Definitely a lot of noticeable geographical biases and personal biases, just from personally knowing students of high caliber having gone to certain schools on that^ list. I did struggle with thinking of 25 schools off the top of my head. So there are some on here that I’m impressed moreso with the caliber of the student body than the rarity/selectivity of.

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Grouped together, but not in order within groups:

  1. MIT
  2. Caltech
  3. Deep Springs
  4. Princeton
  5. Stanford
  6. Yale
  7. Harvard
  8. Columbia
  9. Chicago
  10. Dartmouth
  11. Williams
  12. Swarthmore
  13. Penn
  14. Duke
  15. Cornell
  16. Pomona
  17. Harvey Mudd
  18. Vanderbilt
  19. Northwestern
  20. Rice
  21. Brown
  22. Amherst
  23. Berkeley
  24. Olin
  25. USC
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^^^^ same here, Grouped together, but not in order within groups (the groups are ordered):

West Point
Coast Guard Academy
Naval Academy
Air Force Academy
Virginia Military Institute
Caltech (California Institute of Technology)
Penn-Wharton

MIT
Shimer College
Reed College
Marlboro College
St. John’s College (Annapolis or Santa Fe)

U.Chicago
Harvey Mudd
Harvard
Northwestern
Stanford

Duke
U.Michigan
UNC-Chapel Hill

Georgia Tech
Notre Dame
Colorado College
Claremont McKenna
Xavier University of Louisiana

I won’t be meeting anybody who is attending Deep Springs (odds are about 5,000,000 to 1, so neither will you), thus I left it off my list. Plus it’s a two-year “junior college.”