What are the elite colleges?

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<p>Actually W&M is in Williamsburg, VA, and it’s a really good liberal arts public.</p>

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<p>[William</a> & Mary - About](<a href=“http://www.wm.edu/about/index.php]William”>About W&M | William & Mary)</p>

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<p>According to the collegeboard website, that college’s actual SAT 75th percentile is less than 1500 out of 2400.</p>

<p>[College</a> Search - Paul Quinn College - SAT®, AP®, CLEP®](<a href=“http://collegesearch.collegeboard.com/search/CollegeDetail.jsp?collegeId=288&profileId=6]College”>College Search - BigFuture | College Board)</p>

<p>It’s 25th percentile score is 8.</p>

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<p>It’s not harvard or anything,…but it’s …a good school.
If you must apply colleges that doesn’t end with univ. ,then you must think dartmouth as a community college as well. And also people usually call harvard undergraduate school as harvard college. You might think havard to be a community college also.</p>

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Alas! It seems the list took PQ’s 75th percentile score for the SAT on a 2400 scale. Here are the real 25-75s for Paul Quinn College: [College</a> Search - Paul Quinn College - SAT®, AP®, CLEP®](<a href=“College Search - BigFuture | College Board”>College Search - BigFuture | College Board)
You caught my eye when you mentioned it because I was recently reading about how it lost accreditation and fought back for it.</p>

<p>EDIT:
I should start looking at second pages. It appears that two other posters have already elaborated on the same issue.
Nevertheless, if you really want a gist of what schools are perceived as elite, just look at the USNWR.</p>

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<p>No, I think it’s a TTT state school: [University</a> of Massachusetts Dartmouth](<a href=“http://www.umassd.edu/]University”>http://www.umassd.edu/)</p>

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<p>I would nominate the 30 or so COFHE colleges and universities. Not only are they among the most selective and well-known colleges in the country, but, collectively, they are probably responsible for the direct transfer of 90% of all need-based, privately funded, financial aid in the United States: [COFHE</a> : Consortium On Financing Higher Education](<a href=“http://web.mit.edu/cofhe/]COFHE”>Consortium on Financing Higher Education)</p>

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That’s for the ACT.</p>

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<p>I would nominate the 30 or so COFHE colleges and universities. Not only are they among the most selective and well-known colleges in the country, but, collectively, they are probably responsible for the direct transfer of 90% of all need-based, privately funded, financial aid in the United States: <a href=“http://web.mit.edu/cofhe/[/url]”>http://web.mit.edu/cofhe/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>William & Mary has the best Ivy-type experience of any public school. Definitely the elite of public school.</p>