Stanford
(common thread for all three? great campuses not dominated by a major city yet not too far from one: Brown-Boston, Princeton-NY/Philly, Stanford-SF, great atmosphere for learning, amazing peeps)</p>
<p>Tier 2:
Berkeley
Caltech
Duke
Harvard
MIT
U Penn
UCLA</p>
<p>Tier 3:
NYU (where’s the campus?)
Johns Hopkins (Baltimore… could be worse, could be in Detroit)
Cornell (ever been to Ithaca in the winter? Make sure you have some Prozac handy)