<p>m2ck, I would put Birmingham Southern ahead of UAH or UAB:</p>
<p>Alabama
Auburn
Birmingham Southern</p>
<p>Michigan:</p>
<p>Michigan
Kalamazoo
Grand Valley/MSU</p>
<p>CT:
- Yale
- Wesleyan
- Connecticut College/Trinity</p>
<p>MA:
- Harvard/MIT
- Williams/Amherst/Wellesley
- Tufts/Boston College/Brandeis</p>
<p>Florida:
- Florida State
- UF
- University of Miami</p>
<p>Listed in order of preference; not much separates these universities academically. For sports most people would list UF above FSU but they’re idiots.</p>
<p>pomona, stanford, cal</p>
<p>California:</p>
<ol>
<li>Stanford</li>
<li>Cal</li>
<li>UCLA</li>
</ol>
<p>imho</p>
<p>New Mexico
- UNM
- NM State
- NM Tech(?) There really isn’t a college that deserves listing IMO</p>
<p>Just a quick question to all those from Michigan: Why isn’t Hillsdale in any of the top three? It’s a very good college from an academic standpoint.</p>
<p>California…</p>
<ol>
<li>Stanford</li>
<li>Cal</li>
<li>UCLA</li>
</ol>
<p>Cal Tech and Pomona are amazing, but too small to consider top schools in Cali.</p>
<p>Texas:</p>
<p>1) Rice
2) UT Austin
3) SMU or Texas A&M</p>
<p>As others have said, TCU is just an overpriced and even worse version of SMU. It’s not even a good school IMO - kinda actually trashy from what I’ve seen. Also trinity university is more of a liberal arts college - not really comparable to national universities like UT.</p>
<p>UW
Whitman
Gonzaga</p>
<p>New York:
Privates (all better than the top publics)*
- Columbia University
- Cornell University
- University of Rochester/Hamilton College/Colgate University</p>
<p>Publics
- SUNY Binghamton
- SUNY Geneseo
- SUNY Stony Brook</p>
<p>*If I was counting specialty schools, Julliard School and Cooper Union would be there.</p>
<p>Washington: </p>
<ol>
<li>Whitman </li>
<li>UW</li>
<li>University of Puget Sound (Gonzaga? Evergreen State?)</li>
</ol>
<p>This, with the obligatory concession that this sort of list is arbitrary and pointless. But fun. Or if nothing elsr, an effective time sink. Really, UW and Evergreen are so totally different it seems silly to even see them in the same discussion.</p>
<p>Massachusetts-University category-Harvard, MIT, Tufts, Brandeis. LAC’S-WILLIAMS, Amherst, Wellesley, HOLY CROSS.</p>
<p>Florida:</p>
<ol>
<li>UF or Miami
and then FSU.</li>
</ol>
<p>(and maybe toss in New College if you like an LAC education at a public university price. =D)</p>
<p>NJ</p>
<ol>
<li>Princeton</li>
<li>Rutgers</li>
<li>TCNJ</li>
</ol>
<p>South Carolina</p>
<p>1) Wofford College
2) Clemson University
3) Furman University</p>
<p>Illinois would be:</p>
<p>1) Northwestern
2) U of Chicago
3) UIUC</p>
<p>Sent from my M865 using CC</p>
<p>North Carolina:</p>
<p>1) Duke
2) UNC Chapel Hill
3) Wake Forest</p>
<ol>
<li>Rice</li>
<li>University of Texas Austin</li>
<li>This one is difficult either Texas A&M, Baylor, or SMU</li>
</ol>
<p>Stanford, CalTech, Berkeley.</p>