What Colleges Compete for the same kids?

College Search & Selection
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<p>What groups of colleges are bring looked at by the same kids? These colleges often are asked to be compared in versus threads.</p>

<p>So, let's hear it.</p>

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<p>Indiana/purdue
Harvard/Yale/Princeton
MIT/Stanford/Chicago
Minnesota/Wisconsin
Northwestern/Michigan/Chicago</p>

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<p>MIT/Caltech
Northwestern/Chicago/WashU</p>

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<p>Just my two cents:</p>

<p>MIT/Caltech
Harvard/ Yale/ Princeton / Stanford
Cornell/ Brown/ Washington University in St. Louis / Chicago / Dartmouth</p>

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<p>Mount Holyoke/Smith/Wellesley
Penn State/Michigan/ Ohio State
Swarthmore/Amherst/Williams</p>

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<p>I agree hahah. I’d add Penn/Duke/Columbia to that third group.</p>

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<p>Maybe we can put Oxford and Cambridge in its own group too, hahahaha. Thus:</p>

<p>MIT/ Caltech
Harvard / Yale / Princeton / Stanford
Cornell / Brown / Washington University in St. Louis / Duke / Dartmouth / Columbia
Chicago / Northwestern</p>

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<p>Bigten1212, you might want to be more specific. Do you mean purely test score/prestige wise, or are you factoring in location, lifestyle, size etc. also?</p>

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<p>HYP
Dartmouth/Brown/Amherst/Williams (more LAC feel)
Penn/Columbia/Duke (urban research universities)</p>

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<p>in general, you could say that a higher ranked, more expensive school competes with a lower ranked one + $$$ (a scholarship, or more affordable tuition).</p>

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<p>MIT/ Caltech
Harvard / Yale / Princeton / Stanford
Cornell / Washington University in St. Louis / Duke / Dartmouth / Columbia
Chicago / Northwestern / Brown
Johns Hopkins / Rice / UC Berkeley / UCLA</p>

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<p>lol how is rice at all similar to UCLA? or johns hopkins?</p>

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<p>@ Xargon42</p>

<p>I think it’s cuz Rice and Johns Hopkins are both good schools for people interested in biological research. I think zenith means that UCLA, Berkeley, and Rice are ranked around the same?</p>

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<p>Chicago / Northwestern / Brown </p>

<p>Chicago and Brown? Really? more like Chicago and Columbia…</p>

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<p>Chicago / Columbia
Chicago / Northwestern
Swarthmore / Pomona / Carleton
Carleton / Williams / Middlebury / Amherst
Amherst / Williams / Middlebury / Bowdoin / Dartmouth
Bowdoin / Bates / Colby
Colby / Colgate / Bucknell
Oberlin / Grinnell / Carleton / Macalester
Oberlin / Vassar / Wesleyan / Bard
Rochester / Case Western
MIT / Caltech
Smith / Mt. Holyoke / Wellesley / Bryn Mawr
Pomona / Scripps
Pitzer / Hampshire / Bard</p>

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<p>HYPSM, Caltech
Harvard, MIT
Stanford, Berkeley, CMC, UCLA, USC
Stanford, Duke, Notre Dame
Berkeley, UCLA, Cornell, Chicago, Columbia, JHU
UCLA, USC, UCSB
Chicago, Northwestern, Michigan
Columbia, NYU, Penn</p>

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I think that while there is a rough affinity between different types of LACs (even the phrase “type of LAC” is a redundancy) the actual number of overlaps between any two of them probably pales in comparison to the number of overlaps between an LAC and any number of top universities.</p>

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<p>All the schools to which I applied!! :)</p>

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<p>The women’s schools are all different. If you’re just talking about location then it’s fair to put the three 3 MA schools together, but other than that (and the fact that they’re liberal arts) they don’t have as much in common as you’d think.</p>

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<p>I am trying to ask for groups of schools that kids are considering that are the same a lot. Generally, they are academically close, geographically close, and are similar in size etc. but there aren’t restrictions. If many kids are considering a small liberal arts college in Washington State as well as a massive university in Florida, then that works too.</p>