Parade's College A-List

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<p><a href=“http://www.highpoint.edu/parades-colleges/document/parades-college.pdf[/url]”>http://www.highpoint.edu/parades-colleges/document/parades-college.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>I agree that these are some great schools, but I hardly think that UVA, University of Texas and Wisconsin “fly under the radar”. Likewise Penn is not only an Ivy, but isn’t Wharton a very well known B-school?</p>

<p>I loved seeing Univ. Mary Washington on the list. Great school that is not as well known.</p>

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<p>What a lot of fluff! This was somehow written for Highpoint in combination with Parade magazine, and so I wondered where they would show up. This list is the most bogus non-objective one ever compiled. At least USN&WR and Newsweek tells you what criteria they used.</p>

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<p>High Point???</p>

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<p>Parade says this was based on the recommendations of 43 top guidance counselors. Here they are: [PARADE’s</a> College AList | Parade.com](<a href=“http://www.parade.com/news/2010/08/22-a-list-survey-counselors.html]PARADE’s”>http://www.parade.com/news/2010/08/22-a-list-survey-counselors.html). See if your town/school has a top guidance counselor.</p>

<p>Obviously Parade didn’t simply ask for good schools that fly under the radar, considering that this list includes some big-name schools.</p>

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<p>Looks like the counselors on that list are all from private schools. At least that’s true for our area. Interestingly, the local schools are high schools that have good reputations, but they aren’t the top names. No 800-lb gorillas (the high schools with the strong national reputations).</p>

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<p>University of Chicago on their list of Liberal Arts Colleges???</p>