<p>Just for kicks, I played around with this list. Here are the colleges according to their USNWR Top 50 national universities and Top 25 LAC ranks. I don’t see any pattern here other than the fact that publics generally graded higher than the privates. But to me, there were several pleasant surprises (Yale, Lehigh, Middlebury) and a few that I thought were a little harsh (Carnegie Mellon, Rice, Emory, Williams). </p>
<p>Obviously this stuff is only for entertainment purposes as beauty is truly in the eye of the beholder, but for those posters who often ask for schools with the “hot” boys and/or girls, you could probably do worse than this list. </p>
<p>National Universities
B Princeton University Princeton, NJ
B- Harvard University Cambridge, MA
B+ Yale University New Haven, CT
B- Stanford University Stanford, CA
C+ University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA
C- Caltech Pasadena, CA
C- MIT Cambridge, MA
B Duke University Durham, NC
C+ Columbia University New York, NY
B- University of Chicago Chicago, IL
B- Dartmouth College Hanover, NH
C+ Washington University in St. Louis St. Louis, MO
C- Cornell University Ithaca, NY
B Brown University Providence, RI
B+ Northwestern University Evanston, IL
C+ Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD
C Rice University Houston, TX
C Emory University Atlanta, GA
A+ Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN
C+ University of Notre Dame South Bend, IN
C University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, CA
D+ Carnegie Mellon University
A- University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA
A- Georgetown University Washington, DC
A- University of California, Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA
A- University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI
A University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA
A- University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, NC
B- Tufts University Medford, MA
A- Wake Forest University Winston-Salem, NC
B+ Lehigh University Bethlehem, PA
C+ Brandeis University Waltham, MA
B College of William and Mary Williamsburg, VA
A- New York University New York, NY
B- University of Rochester Rochester, NY
C+ Georgia Tech Atlanta, GA
A Boston College Chestnut Hill, MA
A- University of Wisconsin Madison, WI
B- University of California, San Diego San Diego, CA
A- University of Illinois Champaign, IL
C+ Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, OH
B+ University of Washington Seattle, WA
B+ University of California, Davis Davis, CA
B- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy, NY
A+ University of Texas Austin, TX
A University of California, Santa Barbara Goleta, CA
B University of California, Irvine Irvine, CA
B+ Pennsylvania State University State College, PA
A University of Florida Gainesville, FL
A- Syracuse University Syracuse, NY
B+ Tulane University New Orleans, LA</p>
<p>LACs<br>
C Williams College Williamstown, MA
B Amherst College Amherst, MA
C+ Swarthmore College Swarthmore, PA
B Wellesley College Wellesley, MA
D+ Carleton College Northfield, MN
A- Middlebury College Middlebury, VT
B Pomona College Claremont, CA
C+ Bowdoin College Brunswick, ME
B Davidson College Davidson, NC
B- Haverford College Haverford, PA
C Wesleyan University Middletown, CT
B- Grinnell College Grinnell, IA
B+ Vassar College Poughkeepsie, NY
C+ Harvey Mudd College Claremont, CA
A- Washington and Lee University Lexington, VA
B+ Smith College Northampton, MA
B+ Hamilton College Clinton, NY
B+ Colgate University Hamilton, NY
B- Oberlin College Oberlin, OH
B+ Colby College Waterville, ME
B Bates College Lewiston, ME
B- Bryn Mawr College Bryn Mawr, PA</p>