Which of these School's Are Most Alike and Different?

College Search & Selection
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<p>I have just started my college search by forming a preliminary list of the colleges I am interested in:</p>

<p>Amherst C
Bates C
Boston C
Bowdoin C
Brandeis U
Brown U
Colby C
Colgate U
Columbia U
Cornell U
Dartmouth C
Duke U
Emory U
Georgetown U
Harvard C
Johns Hopkins U
Middlebury C
MIT
New York U
Northwestern U
Oberlin C
Princeton U
Swarthmore C
U Chicago
U Pennsylvania
Vanderbilt U
Vassar C
Washington U St. L.
Williams C
Yale U</p>

<p>Obviously, I will not apply to all of these schools. I am planning on narrowing it down to probably around 10, plus 2 safeties which will be SUNY/CUNY schools. Which of the schools on the list are the most similar in terms of overall life (including academics, sports, social scene, etc)? Also, which are most different?</p>

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<p>Bump 10 char</p>

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<p>Personal opinion:</p>

<p>Big-name/Ivies (universities, not LACs)
Brown
Columbia
Cornell
Dartmouth
Duke
Georgetown
Harvard
Johns Hopkins
MIT
Princeton
Penn
U Chicago
Wash. U St Louis
Yale</p>

<p>Universities just under top-tier:
Boston College
Brandeis
Colgate
Emory
NYU
Northwestern
Vanderbilt</p>

<p>LACs:
Amherst
Bates
Bowdoin
Colby
Middlebury
Oberlin
Swarthmore
Vassar
Williams</p>

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<p>Adding onto bruno14, within the categories, schools I’d group together are:</p>

<p>(Brown, Dartmouth, Yale, LACs)
(Duke, Cornell, Penn, Princeton)
(Columbia, Harvard, MIT, Wash. U St Louis, Johns Hopkins, U Chicago)</p>

<p>Anything in particular you’re looking for? It would be easier to narrow the list down if you had solid criteria.</p>