<p>I need help with finding a highly selective college/univ in the state of Arizona. Does anyone know of good ones, other than U of A?</p>
<p>Why does it need to be “highly selective”?</p>
<p>Arizona is not exactly filled with exclusive institutions, but UA is probably the closest you will get. It has some good programs too…</p>
<p>ASU’s Barrett Honors College is selective, so you might want to check that out.</p>
<p>Unless you really need an ego boost, you might want to worry a bit less about selectivity and more about other factors.</p>
<p>Maybe the OP prefers really smart peers and it’s not about his ego. Not a bad way to select a college in my opinion, your peers are a tremendous part of your college experience.</p>
<p>Arizona is not home to any highly selective colleges.</p>
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UA has 313 National Merit Scholars and ASU has 539. Sounds like plenty of smart peers to me…</p>
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Arizona and ASU have certain strengths, but an intelligent and highly motivated undergraduate student body is not one of them. </p>
<p>Arizona
SAT CR 480-600
SAT M 500-620
81% admitted
33% graduate in 4 years</p>
<p>Arizona State
SAT CR 470-600
SAT M 480-610
90% admitted
28% graduate in 4 years</p>
<p>Course difficulty is aimed at the average (B/C) student. Bluntly put, courses at UA and ASU would typically not be as challenging as those at more selective colleges. I say this as a TA who’s bitter about having to dumb down his standards for the undergraduates at his public.</p>
<p>Uh…not really. xDDDD</p>
<p>ASU
U Of A
NAU</p>
<p>Grand Canyon
U of Phoenix</p>
<p>Prescott College isn’t selective either:</p>
<p>"SAT Critical Reading: 460 - 660 65%
SAT Math: 430 - 600 65%
SAT Writing: 470 - 610 65%
ACT Composite: 18 - 27 26% "</p>
<p>w/ 77% acceptance rate.</p>
<p>You’ll do what all the other Smart Arizona kids do:</p>
<p>1.) You’ll go to Barrett Honors at ASU. That’s the ‘best’ thing we have, and its been named as a great school. By reader’s digest, but still.
2.) You’ll just go to state flagship and work harder.</p>
<p>Or you try to do what I’m doing and:</p>
<p>3.) Flee. </p>
<p>Most of the highly intelligent kids I know will go to Barrett b/c it’s affordable and/or leave because the fact of the matter is, we want something more academically intense. </p>
<p>If it’s about peers, and it HAS to be in AZ, go Barrett. If you just want a good College, go somewhere else. (I maintain that Prescott is probably one of the better schools on there for it’s big focus on the environment, though. Plus, Prescott is BEAUTIFUL.) </p>
<p>If you live here, and having been paying attention though, our schools are pretty low even in the k-12 areas. ASU has an economic recovery fee in their tuition, it’s that bad. Classes are being cut, and tuition is being raised, and depending upon your major/school your tuition will change as well. </p>
<p>People wonder why I’m so adverse to staying home for my college degree- esp. when it’s relatively affordable. </p>
<p>If you need to state in State:
U of A for medical/dance. They have a teaching hospital.
ASU for business, law, or engineering and journalism. [Or education, ironically.]
NAU for…snow.
Prescott for the environment.
U of Phoenix for night classes and online classes
Grand Canyon for…something.</p>
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<p>Yeah but how much BIGGER is ASU and UofA compared to other schools?</p>
<p>539/53,298 that’s .01% of the population according to my calculator. (And frankly, ASU is probably much bigger than collegeboard says)</p>
<p>313/29,719 also .01%</p>
<p>There are smart kids, but there are smart kids anywhere.</p>
<p>Wow! Thank you for all the input… I appreciate the time you took!</p>