The College Confidential Rankings

Applying to College
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<h2>Tier 1</h2>

<p>Amherst
CalTech
Chicago
Columbia
Dartmouth
Duke
Harvard
MIT
Penn
Princeton
Stanford
Swarthmore
Yale
Williams</p>

<h2>Tier 2</h2>

<p>Berkeley
Bowdoin
Brown
Carleton
Carnegie Mellon
Cornell
Emory
Georgetown
Haverford
Johns Hopkins
Middlebury
Notre Dame
Pomona
Rice
Villanova
Wellesley
WUStL</p>

<h2>Tier 3</h2>

<p>Brandeis
Bryn Mawr
Case Western
Claremont McKenna
Colgate
Davidson
Georgia Tech
Grinnell
Harvey Mudd
Lehigh
Northwestern
NYU
Tufts
Rochester
UCLA
UCSD
UNC
USC
Vanderbilt
Vassar
Virginia
Wake Forest
Washington
Washington and Lee
Wesleyan
William and Mary</p>

<h2>Tier 4</h2>

<p>Barnard
Bates
Boston College
Boston U
Bucknell
Colby
Colorado College
Connecticut
George Washington
Florida
Hamilton
Lafayette
Macalester
Maryland
Michigan
Mount Holyoke
Oberlin
Pepperdine
Pittsburgh
Rutgers
Scripps
Smith
Syracuse
Texas
Tulane
UC—Davis
UC—Irvine
UCSB
Washington
Wisconsin
Yeshiva</p>