What are YOUR top 20 schools?

College Search & Lists
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<p>Hey there everyone; long-time lurker, first-time poster. I wanted to ask everyone what YOUR top schools are. Ignore US News. Ignore Gourman. Ignore other CCers. This is YOUR personal list of the schools you would most want to attend if you were accepted into every school in the world with a full ride. (I don’t even want a single mention of outside rankings.) Feel free to explain your rankings, but since this is everyone’s PERSONAL list, there should be no criticizing of other’s rankings.</p>

<p>Here’s my list:</p>

<li>Harvard</li>
<li>Penn</li>
<li>Columbia</li>
<li>Georgetown</li>
<li>Notre Dame</li>
<li>Carnegie Mellon</li>
<li>Yale </li>
<li>Princeton</li>
<li>Stanford</li>
<li>Cambridge</li>
<li>Duke</li>
<li>Oxford</li>
<li>Vanderbilt</li>
<li>UNC</li>
<li>NYU</li>
<li>Amherst</li>
<li>Dartmouth</li>
<li>Brown</li>
<li>Cornell</li>
<li>Chicago</li>
</ol>

<p>I like city schools because of the culture, diversity, opportunities & entertainment of cities, so that is why they dominate my list along with other top schools.</p>

2

<p>1) Harvard
2) Yale
3) Stanford
4) Columbia
5) Penn
6) Brown
7) Duke
8) Northwestern
9) Dartmouth
10) Williams</p>

<p>forget the rest</p>

3

<p>I really like alternative schools because I feel like if I (okay…my parents) am going to pay all that money, I want to have control over what classes I take, my education, and not spend money on classes I have little or no interest in. My top 20:</p>

<ol>
<li>Bennington (luckily I am currently enrolled there!)</li>
<li>Hampshire</li>
<li>Vassar</li>
<li>Wesleyan</li>
<li>Bard</li>
<li>Oberlin</li>
<li>Brown</li>
<li>Sarah Lawrence</li>
<li>Eugene Lang</li>
<li>NYU</li>
<li>Marlboro</li>
<li>Reed</li>
<li>Guilford </li>
<li>St. Johns</li>
<li>College of the Atlantic</li>
<li>Evergreen</li>
<li>Warren Wilson</li>
<li>New College of Florida</li>
<li>Beloit</li>
<li>Skidmore</li>
</ol>

<p>I like small schools where the professors know you, where there are more opportunities to work with/for them. I DO NOT want any greek scene, or sports to speak of. And I want real professors, no TA’s</p>

4

<ol>
<li>Harvard.</li>
<li>Yale</li>
<li>Princeton</li>
<li>MIT</li>
<li>Stanford</li>
<li>Columbia</li>
<li>University of Pennsylvania</li>
<li>Cal Tech</li>
<li>Amherst</li>
<li>Dartmouth</li>
<li>University of Chicago</li>
<li>Williams</li>
<li>Cornell</li>
<li>Brown</li>
<li>Johns Hopkins</li>
<li>Swarthmore</li>
<li>Notre Dame</li>
<li>Georgetown</li>
<li>University of Virginia</li>
<li>UC Berkeley</li>
</ol>

5

<ol>
<li>Michigan</li>
<li>University of Florida</li>
<li>Vanderbilt</li>
<li>UNC</li>
<li>UVA</li>
<li>UCLA</li>
<li>Boston U</li>
<li>Stanford</li>
<li>Wisconsin</li>
<li>U Washington</li>
<li>Texas</li>
<li>Maryland</li>
<li>Indiana</li>
<li>Georgetown</li>
<li>Minnesota</li>
<li>Clemson</li>
<li>Davidson</li>
<li>UNC-Asheville</li>
<li>Rice</li>
<li>Temple U</li>
</ol>

6

<ol>
<li>Yale</li>
<li>Princeton</li>
<li>Harvard</li>
<li>Stanford</li>
<li>MIT</li>
<li>Dartmouth</li>
<li>University of Chicago</li>
<li>Columbia</li>
<li>Johns Hopkins</li>
<li>University of Pennsylvania</li>
<li>Cal Tech</li>
<li>Brown</li>
<li>Washington University in St. Louis</li>
<li>Notre Dame </li>
<li>Duke</li>
<li>Cornell</li>
<li>Northwestern</li>
<li>Georgetown</li>
<li>University of Michigan</li>
<li>UC Berkeley</li>
</ol>

7

<ol>
<li>Vanderbilt</li>
<li>Princeton</li>
<li>Yale</li>
<li>Washington & Lee</li>
<li>Harvard</li>
<li>Dartmouth</li>
<li>Williams</li>
<li>Middlebury</li>
<li>UVA</li>
<li>Duke</li>
<li>Georgetown</li>
<li>Stanford</li>
<li>Boston College</li>
<li>USC</li>
<li>UPenn</li>
<li>Wake Forest</li>
<li>Davidson</li>
<li>Amherst</li>
<li>Colgate</li>
<li>Trinity (CT)</li>
</ol>

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<p>top 20 is too much, and there’s already a top 10 thread out. but i’ll list anyway, i have nothing else to do at 10:00 pm so…</p>

<ol>
<li>harvard</li>
<li>yale</li>
<li>princeton</li>
<li>brown</li>
<li>dartmouth</li>
<li>columbia</li>
<li>cornell</li>
<li>Upenn</li>
<li>Johns Hopkins</li>
<li>UChicago</li>
<li>Amherst</li>
<li>Boston</li>
<li>MIT</li>
<li>Swarthmore</li>
<li>washington st. louis</li>
<li>brandeis</li>
<li>tufts</li>
<li>williams</li>
<li> wellsley</li>
<li>stanford</li>
</ol>