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Top 20 Selective Colleges



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Thu Jan 15, 2009 6:17 pm
powerofthree says...



Top 20 Most Selective Colleges
Swarthmore College
Amherst College
Caltech (California Institute of Technology)
Pomona College
Claremont McKenna College
University of Pennsylvania
Dartmouth College
West Point (United States Military Academy)
Brown University
United States Air Force Academy (USAFA)
MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Annapolis (United States Naval Academy)
Columbia University
Cooper Union
College of the Ozarks
Stanford University
Olin College (Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering)
Princeton University
Yale University
Harvard University

Some of them may or may not be for writing.
Note: It starts with the top being least selective of the bunch and ending with Harvard as the most.
  





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Thu Jan 15, 2009 6:55 pm
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Dude, your numbers are all off... Way to put the freakin' zoomies ahead of West Point. :P

West Point (United States Military Academy) - 15%
Brown University - 14%
United States Air Force Academy (USAFA) - 17%
MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) - 12%
Annapolis (United States Naval Academy) - 14%
Columbia University - 11%
Cooper Union - 9%
College of the Ozarks - 12%
Stanford University - 10%
Olin College (Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering) - 11%
Princeton University - 10%
Yale University - 10%
Harvard University - 9%
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Thu Jan 15, 2009 6:58 pm
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Areida wrote:Dude, your numbers are all off... Way to put the freakin' zoomies ahead of West Point. :P


Do I sense a little rivalry? ;)
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Thu Jan 15, 2009 7:08 pm
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Thu Jan 15, 2009 7:17 pm
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PSH.

Better Navy than Air Force. :P
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Thu Jan 15, 2009 8:37 pm
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*rolls eyes*

Frickin' Navy.
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Sat Jan 17, 2009 4:13 am
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*raises hand* Swarthmore reject here!
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Sat Jan 17, 2009 12:23 pm
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There is an innate problem here - all your colleges are in the USA, and everyone knows an American undergraduate degree isn't worth the paper it's written on. Your list should be something like this:

Oxford
Cambridge
St. Andrews
Manchester
Bristol
Leeds
Sheffield
Birmingham
etc., etc.
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Sat Jan 17, 2009 5:48 pm
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Bob! As an American and at a school that would never make that list in a hundred years, I feel that I should be insulted. But we all know it's grad schools that really matter, and Oxford, here I come!

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Sat Jan 17, 2009 6:02 pm
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Better Navy than Air Force.



I highly resent that >.<
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Sat Jan 17, 2009 7:44 pm
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LOL! Sorry. Raised in a navy family. ;)

And Ari: you're crazy. :P
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Sat Jan 17, 2009 8:01 pm
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UEA is pretty damn cool.

Nuff said.
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Sat Jan 17, 2009 8:02 pm
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UCD pwns UEA's arse.
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Sat Jan 17, 2009 8:40 pm
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Psh, UCD isn't cool enough to even kiss, let alone kick UEA's arse.
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for all those complaining, be quiet because I found this on the web. Geez...It was just what I found.
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