<p>I got this idea from another thread entitled state flagship universities.</p>
<p>I wanted to open the door up for debate as the best overall colleges by state based on selectivity, graduation/retention, endowment, SAT scores, prestige, etc.</p>
<p>Have fun deciding on who wins Massachusetts!</p>
<p>Well there already was a long thread like this...</p>
<p>But seeing as I just got to my college campus yesterday, I'll put in my two cents regarding Mass:</p>
<ol>
<li>Amherst College</li>
<li>Harvard</li>
<li>MIT
...
1,000,000. Williams College</li>
</ol>
<p>; )</p>
<p>I don't think anyone can really argue about south carolina:</p>
<ol>
<li>Furman University</li>
<li>Wofford College</li>
<li>Clemson University</li>
</ol>
<p>one could argue that clemson is better than wofford, but I do not believe so.</p>
<p>North Carolina:</p>
<ol>
<li>Duke</li>
<li>Davidson</li>
<li>UNC</li>
<li>Wake Forest</li>
<li>Elon</li>
<li><p>NC State</p></li>
<li><p>The others.</p></li>
</ol>
<p>Virginia</p>
<ol>
<li>William & Mary</li>
<li>UVa</li>
<li>Virginia Tech</li>
<li><p>University of Richmond</p></li>
<li><p>The rest</p></li>
</ol>
<p>Connecticut:</p>
<ol>
<li>Yale</li>
<li>Wesleyan
US Coast Guard Academy</li>
<li>Connecticut College</li>
<li>Trinity College</li>
<li>UConn</li>
</ol>
<p>Rhode Island:
1. Brown
2. Providence College
URI</p>
<p>New York:
1. Cornell
2. NYU
3. I want to say Colgate or Vasser...but I really don't know..</p>
<p>Publics:
1.Geneseo</p>
<p>California:
Undergrad:
Stanford
Caltech
Harvey Mudd
Pomona
Berkeley
Claremont-Mckenna
UCLA</p>
<p>Overall:
Stanford
Berkeley
Caltech
UCLA
UCSD</p>
<p>
[quote]
New York:
1. Cornell
2. NYU
3. I want to say Colgate or Vasser...but I really don't know..</p>
<p>Publics:
1.Geneseo
[/quote]
I'd place Columbia and the Cooper Union between Cornell and NYU. Binghampton, Buffalo, and Stony Brook are all pretty good publics.</p>
<p>Louisiana...ha.</p>
<p>Oh well, I'll play along.
My vote's on Tulane.</p>
<p>Have to disagree on VA...</p>
<p>1.) William and Mary
2.) University of Virginia
3.) Washington and Lee
4.) University of Richmond
5.) Virginia Tech
6.) James Madison University</p>
<p>Had trouble deciding b/w W&M and U.Va for #1... such different schools! It seems like W&M has more prestige for Virginians, but U.Va has more prestige for non-Virginians.</p>
<p>cherokeejew: I agree with California except I would just lump all the Claremont colleges together and place them where you have Harvey Mudd, and I would place USC right below them and above Berkeley. USC has a higher range of SAT scores for admitted students than Berkeley.</p>
<p>I'll start with some preliminaries</p>
<p>Maine: Bowdoin College
New Hampshire: Dartmouth College
Massachusetts: MIT/Harvard College/Williams College/Amherst
Rhode Island: Brown University
Vermont: Middlebury College
Connecticut: Yale University
New York: Columbia University/Cornell University/Cooper Union/U.S. Military Academy
Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania/Swarthmore
New Jersey: Princeton University
Delaware:
Maryland: University of Maryland/Johns Hopkins/U.S. Naval Academy
Washington DC: Georgetown University
Virginia: University of Virginia/College of William and Mary
North Carolina: Duke University
South Carolina: Furman University
Georgia: Emory University
Indiana: Notre Dame
Illinois: Northwestern University/University of Chicago
Kentucky: Berea College
Minnesota: Carleton College
Ohio: Kenyon College/Oberlin College
Arizona: Northern Arizona University
Tennessee: Vanderbilt University
Missouri: Washington University at St. Louis
California: Stanford/Pamona/Cal Tech
Colorado: Colorado College/U.S. Air Force Academy
Texas: Rice University
Louisiana: Tulane University
Iowa: Vennard College
Oregon: Reed College
Florida: University of Miami
Michigan: University of Michigan</p>
<p>That's all for now.</p>
<p>^Give Delaware the UDel- it's the only school in Delaware that I even know of.</p>
<p>New York:</p>
<ol>
<li>Cornell</li>
<li>Columbia/Barnard</li>
<li>NYU</li>
<li>Cooper Union</li>
<li>Colgate</li>
<li>Vassar</li>
<li>Juliard School (I don't really know if this applies tho).</li>
</ol>
<p>Publics:</p>
<ol>
<li>United States Military Academy at West Point</li>
<li>SUNY Geneseo</li>
<li>SUNY Binghamton</li>
<li>SUNY Albany</li>
</ol>
<p>Washington State:</p>
<p>1) University of Washington
2) The rest</p>
<p>It's sad, but true.</p>
<p>i never understood why people continuously argue that w&m is better than uva. Any objective look leads you to the opposite conclusion. I hate to say it again, but the only people who think w&m is better than uva are people who have a connection to w&m.</p>
<p>California Privates: Stanford, USC, Pepperdine, Santa Clara, University of San Diego, Loyola Marymount.</p>
<p>California LACs: Pomona, Claremont McKenna, Harvey Mudd, Scripps, Pitzer, Occidental. </p>
<p>California Publics: UC Berkeley, UCLA, UCSD, UCSB, UCD, UCI, Cal Poly SLO, UCSC, UCR, San Diego State.</p>
<p>"I would just lump all the Claremont colleges together and place them where you have Harvey Mudd, and I would place USC right below them and above Berkeley."</p>
<p>hahahahhahahaha. hillarious.</p>
<p>Vennard college in iowa? NO WAY! Grinnell for sure.</p>