If I’ve kept track, wouldn’t the addition of Michigan, Reed and Pitzer bump Mines, Holy Cross and Trinity?
^ Yes.
75 on my list is now Whitman College.
(Although it’s possible that I still haven’t accounted for a couple schools more selective than Whitman.)
Why stop at 75 (beside the generous allocation of time this must have required, of course).
Why not top 80, for instance? Or Top 100?
Just curious.
Connecticut College might take a slot.
@MYOS1634: The only cut-offs which would not seem arbitrary to me would be fifty, equal to the number of states, and possibly 100, one undergraduate-focused college and one university, on average, per state. In the case of @tk2176’s (generously offered) list, it appears that the figure 75 was chosen because of precedent on CC.
^ That’s exactly right. I wanted to rebuild a list created by another poster in 2009. For whatever reason, he listed 75 schools.
Thank you tk21769, for your answer, and for this very interesting list. It must have taken you a long time and it’s very useful!
Is it possible to add the colleges that didn’t make the list but nearly did, perhaps underneath the ranked ones/unranked?
^ Yes, that’s possible. I’d like to scrub some of these numbers a little more before posting a complete updated list (possibly in its own thread).
As I go off the bottom edge of the original 2009 list … and off the bottom edge of some of the other sources I cited … I become less confident I’m catching all the right schools. I think it does need to be bigger than 75. For example, I’d like to be able to capture all ~60 of the so-called “full need” schools.The least selective off them (Trinity, Holy Cross, Conn College) are now a bit past that 75 mark.
Olin and Cooper Union are 2 schools that will belong pretty high up in a revised list.
The only complication in general for any lists of this type is that some schools cheat or fudge when they report. (Claremont McKenna, Emory, Bucknell, Iona and George Washington have done so in the past. Washington & Lee essentially does so currently. Others that the public is not aware of may do so.)
Yep. Because schools may lie when it comes to inputs, I prefer looking at outputs (which are essentially impossible to lie about when tabulated by a third-party).
Bringing this thread back to life and giving everyone an update! The student finally applied ED2 to Pomona College and got accepted there as an football player. I guess the idea of going ED to a very top LAC out rated applying to top Universities like U Chi. He told my daughter she inspired him to do this. Yay to another top LAC getting some recognition!
Congrats–great news! @kchendds
@marvin100 Yay,congrats to my daughter’s friend! Thank you on behalf of his family 