<p>After surviving from rigorous college selection war this year, what are the new top25 universities on your list? Based on many articles I read recently, Brown appears to be the hottest ivy with a total number of 26000 applicants (a20% increase of 2008s total). HYPS remain the toughest schools to get in with single digit acceptance rates. Caltech and MT, the most prestigious two Techs and other ivies were as selective as before by keeping their acceptance rates down to sub20s. In the south, both Duke and Vanderbilt registered impressive record-low acceptance rates of 17 and 19, respectively. For the public universities, UVA, Berkeley, and UCLA demonstrated their popularity as public ivies by rejecting greater than 70% of their applicants. What a challenging year we had!</p>
<p>Isn’t Brown’s increase due to now accepting the common app? It’s Stanford’s 20% rise in applications that I’ve not heard explained.</p>
<p>^ increase in student graduating pop + Stanford’s financial aid policies, weather, and campus beauty + prestige. perfect mix.</p>
<p>The Harvard, Princeton, and Yale high numbers can also be accorded to great financial aid policies.</p>
<p>Georgetown’s still at 18% 
Harvard down to 7%, that’s intense, it’s like medical school acceptance.</p>
<p>My list of new top 25 universities:</p>
<p>1-5 five-way tie
HYPSM</p>
<p>6-20 15-way tie
5 other ivies, Duke, Vanderbilt, Georgetown, UWSTL, UVA, Berkeley, UCLA, Amherst, Swarthmore, and Williams</p>
<p>21-33 13-way tie
Chicago, Northwestern, JHU, Emory, Rice, Notre Dame, NYU, UNC, Michigan, Baldwin, Smith, Wellesley, and Wesleyan </p>
<p>What are your top 25?</p>
<p>Georgetown’s 18% acceptance is for a school that does not accept the common application, requires 3 Sat IIs and an evaluative interview and has an early action program with a May 1 reply date. What is so impressive about Georgetown, is that it maintains its position without playing the ratings game at all. Georgetown lets other schools fall all over themselves as they do everything possible to stimulate their statistics. </p>
<p>Thousands of high scoring potential Georgetown applicants would love to have a Hoya frisbee but will not get one in the mail.</p>
<p>^ a large part of that comes from the location. Why else do you think NYU and Columbia are so respectively booming? USC? </p>
<p>But yes, Georgetown is a wonderful school. If we moved it to, let’s say, Detroit, Michigan, I am willing to bet it wouldn’t continue to do so hot ;)</p>
<p>I agree, schools like Georgetown and NYU definitely get a boost from their location. Whereas schools like Cornell, Rice, and Emory are hurt by theirs. Also from 6-20 I wouldn’t include Georgetown, UCLA, or Vanderbilt in lieu of U Chicago (which you put in the 21-30 group)</p>
<p>I got rejected by Michigan…their admissions are pretty treacherous. Probably didn’t help that I am not from Michigan.</p>
<p>And how can you even consider putting the locations of Emory and Rice with Cornell? That is so amazingly ignorant. Wow. Rice is in the middle of Houston, the nation’s fourth largest city, and probably the best job market in the country for recent college graduates right now. Emory is in the middle of Atlanta…you know, that little town known as the Capitol of the South? Cornell is in rural upstate New York. So similar.</p>
<p>An updated list of new top 30 universities:</p>
<p>1-5 five-way tie
HYPSM</p>
<p>6-19 14-way tie
5 other ivies, Caltech, Duke, Georgetown, UWSTL, UVA, Berkeley, Amherst, Swarthmore, and Williams</p>
<p>20-25 six-way tie
Chicago, Northwestern, JHU, Vanderbilt, UCLA, and Wellesley</p>
<p>26-35 10-way tie
Emory, Rice, Notre Dame, NYU, USC, UNC, Michigan, Baldwin, Smith, and Wesleyan </p>
<p>What are your top 30?</p>
<p>HYPSM?</p>
<p>Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, and ______ ?</p>
<p>For one thing, I am positive that Johns Hopkins’ location: baltimore, hurts it to most people who only hear rumors…along with the pre-med cutthroat rumors lol. But it still fairs very well :D</p>
<p>M is for MIT.</p>
<p>NYU’s location has definitely helped it increase in prestige and selectivity. NYU recieves the most apps per year of any private university. Everybody wants to go to NYC and if you want to go to a good school in NYC your choices are Columbia (the fact that it’s an Ivy reduces it’s # of apps), Barnard (if you’re a girl), Cooper Union (who gets in? seriously lol), NYU, and Fordham. So it’s only natural that NYU has steadily increased in rankings.</p>
<p>modelingliao- I disagree with WUSTL and UVA being so high, among others. Chicago should be definitely higher IMO, as should Rice.</p>
<p>^I agree. I’m sorry but they are just glorified state schools.</p>
<p>OSUCowboys: I meant no disrespect, I actually love both Houston and Atlanta. I’m just talking about the east coast bias, a lot of students want to go to school in the major eastern cities (Boston, NYC, Philadelphia, DC, etc…) because they think that is where all the action and recruiting are. I actually am going to Cornell next year, and if I hadn’t got in ED I was definitely going to apply to Rice and Emory for sure. Totally agree with the Houston recruiting too, I heard at a Rice info session that Houston has almost as many Fortune 500 companies as NYC</p>
<p>I’m not going to include LACs because this list is about top 25 UNIVERSITIES.
with that said:</p>
<p>1-5 five-way tie
HYPSM</p>
<p>6-15 10-way tie
5 other ivies, Caltech, Duke, Chicago, Northwestern, JHU</p>
<p>16-21 six-way tie
WUSTL, Vanderbilt, UCBerkeley, Rice, Michigan, UVA</p>
<p>22-28 7-way tie
Emory, NYU, USC, UCLA, UNC, Tufts, Carnegie Mellon</p>
<p>1-5
Harvard, Yale, Princeton, MIT, Stanford</p>
<p>6-10
Dartmouth, Columbia, Penn, Caltech, Chicago</p>
<p>11-18
Duke, Brown, Cornell, Northwestern, Johns Hopkins, WashU, Georgetown, Rice</p>
<p>19-23
Vanderbilt, Notre Dame, UC Berkeley, Michigan, Virginia</p>
<p>Penn dropped I think, Brown rose b/c of their adopting of the common app</p>