<p>Try Shimer College in Chicago. About 25% of their graduates go on to get doctoral degrees (at places like Harvard, Stanford, University of Chicago), easily the best in the country besides two technical schools. And they accept about 90% of applicants. They turn fairly good students into brilliant ones. Lots of doctors went there, including Sydney Spiesel; Time magazine did an editorial recommending him for a Nobel Prize in medicine. Graduates (and students) are not only smart, but interesting and fun people. My daughter goes there now; my other daughter and son, who graduated from Reed and Stanford respectvely, wish they had.</p>