<p>How are you defining selective and “top colleges”? You can plug your criteria (more than 10,000, residential, not-for-profit, percent admitted etc.) into College Navigator and get a list. If you exclude public schools, it narrows it down a lot.
[College</a> Navigator - National Center for Education Statistics](<a href=“http://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/]College”>College Navigator - National Center for Education Statistics)</p>