astrosfan44

This poll gathers together both national universities and LACs. VERY SUBJECTIVE. What do you think?

1. Harvard
2. Princeton
3. Yale
4. Stanford
5. Dartmouth
6. MIT
7. Amherst
8. Williams
9. Columbia University
10. California Institute of Technology
11. Brown
12. Duke
13. University of Pennsylvania
14. University of Chicago
15. Swarthmore
16. Northwestern University
17. Cornell University
18. Johns Hopkins
19. University of California-Berkeley
20. Bowdoin
21. Georgetown
22. Harvey Mudd
23. University of Michigan
24. Wellesley
25. Washington University of St. Louis
26. NYU
27. Notre Dame
28. Carleton
29. UCLA
30. Claremont McKenna
31. University of Virginia
32. Pomona
33. Middlebury
34. Vassar
35. Colgate
36. University of Wisconsin-Madison
37. University of North Carolina
38. William and Mary
39. Vanderbilt
40. Bates
41. Emory
42. Smith
43. Wesleyan
44. Davidson
45. Grinnell
46. Rice
47. Colby
48. University of Texas-Austin
49. University of Southern California
50. Tufts

More info http://www.brody.com/college/resourc...e_rankings.php

evitajr1

I think I would move 1 or 2 down, but agree with most of it.

tkm256

Shweet! Stick it to Williams!

stambliark41

I think that looks pretty good actually.

nopoisonivy

Excellent compilation. They even have Swat ahead of Cornell (an Ivy).
I might switch MIT and Dartmouth though and give Columbia the #7 spot ahead of the top two LAC's. Having said that it is still very accurate IMHO.

stickypenguin

I wouldn't put Claremont McKenna above Pomona or UT-Austin ahead of Tufts.

sullenmoon

agreed...Tufts and Wesleyan are way out of order and should be placed higher.

Pongo

i think Pomona should be above UCLA and NYU, but otherwise, it seems rather acurate. What's that based on?

shellzie2006

Switch Princeton and Harvard and Notre Dame ahead of NYU, and I agree with Pongo. Also, the list appears to be missing a few of the top LACs, but I'm too lazy right now to go check which ones they are.

shellzie2006

Ah, I see...It says "by prestige"- which would explain some of the issues people have commented on above. But, if prestige is the judge, what is Williams doing so high on the list- who, besides us CC'ers, has even heard of it? Or WUSTL for that matter?

pastariffic

Oddly, I agree with neither the list, nor any of you ... it's so subjective!

But Williams is VERY prestigious, for a LAC. It is in the division of schools academics see as prestigious. Same with most LACS, like Amherst or Swat.

hanumang06

hmmm, i was about to strenuously object to washU st. louis being so low on the list, especially below UMich, Georgetown, and Berkeley, esp. when considering undergrad, but then I noticed the "prestige" part...doesn't seem like too bad a list, I don't have too many major objections. Brown's high placement (compared to other Ivies) surprises me, as does Carleton's low rating (compared to how high they're sticking some other small LACs), but i'd say the overarching pattern is sound