Wallethub Best College Ranking 2026

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Simultaneously there are post talking about how these same schools admit a high proportion of students based on nonacademic criteria.

Top universities cannot truly be considered “top,” so long as they continue to admit a high proportion of students based on nonacademic criteria.

[Anonymous]

Seems like there's a new list coming out every month

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Simultaneously there are post talking about how these same schools admit a high proportion of students based on nonacademic criteria.

Top universities cannot truly be considered “top,” so long as they continue to admit a high proportion of students based on nonacademic criteria.

What are you even talking about?. HYPSM, Dartmouth, The others? You're not getting into those without top grades and top rigor. You're not going to find any academic slouches at those schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:T20:

1 99 Princeton University
2 99 Harvard University
3 99 Yale University
4 99 Dartmouth College
5 99 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
6 99 California Institute of Technology
7 99 Carnegie Mellon University
8 99 Williams College MA
9 99 Rice University TX
10 99 Northwestern University
11 98 Columbia University
12 98 Johns Hopkins University
13 98 Georgia Institute of Technology
14 98 Stanford University
15 98 Duke University
16 98 Brown University
17 98 University of Chicago
18 97 University of Notre Dame
19 97 University of Pennsylvania
20 97 Vanderbilt University

Where did you generate this list from? Wallethub doesn’t rank colleges and universities together.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Simultaneously there are post talking about how these same schools admit a high proportion of students based on nonacademic criteria.

Top universities cannot truly be considered “top,” so long as they continue to admit a high proportion of students based on nonacademic criteria.

What are you even talking about?. HYPSM, Dartmouth, The others? You're not getting into those without top grades and top rigor. You're not going to find any academic slouches at those schools.

Be for real, you can get into Dartmouth with a middling 1400 sat score. It is nothing like MIT or Stanford.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Simultaneously there are post talking about how these same schools admit a high proportion of students based on nonacademic criteria.

Top universities cannot truly be considered “top,” so long as they continue to admit a high proportion of students based on nonacademic criteria.

What are you even talking about?. HYPSM, Dartmouth, The others? You're not getting into those without top grades and top rigor. You're not going to find any academic slouches at those schools.

Be for real, you can get into Dartmouth with a middling 1400 sat score. It is nothing like MIT or Stanford.

Okay sure. Good luck to middling students trying to get into Dartmouth.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Simultaneously there are post talking about how these same schools admit a high proportion of students based on nonacademic criteria.

Top universities cannot truly be considered “top,” so long as they continue to admit a high proportion of students based on nonacademic criteria.

What are you even talking about?. HYPSM, Dartmouth, The others? You're not getting into those without top grades and top rigor. You're not going to find any academic slouches at those schools.

Be for real, you can get into Dartmouth with a middling 1400 sat score. It is nothing like MIT or Stanford.

Okay sure. Good luck to middling students trying to get into Dartmouth.

Go check their SAT ranges. It’s so annoying talking to people who purposefully engage in bad faith because they refuse to admit that they’re wrong

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Simultaneously there are post talking about how these same schools admit a high proportion of students based on nonacademic criteria.

Top universities cannot truly be considered “top,” so long as they continue to admit a high proportion of students based on nonacademic criteria.

What are you even talking about?. HYPSM, Dartmouth, The others? You're not getting into those without top grades and top rigor. You're not going to find any academic slouches at those schools.

Be for real, you can get into Dartmouth with a middling 1400 sat score. It is nothing like MIT or Stanford.

DP but you can also get into MIT and Stanford with that score. Just a matter of how likely.

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Anonymous wrote:Simultaneously there are post talking about how these same schools admit a high proportion of students based on nonacademic criteria.

Top universities cannot truly be considered “top,” so long as they continue to admit a high proportion of students based on nonacademic criteria.

What are you even talking about?. HYPSM, Dartmouth, The others? You're not getting into those without top grades and top rigor. You're not going to find any academic slouches at those schools.

Be for real, you can get into Dartmouth with a middling 1400 sat score. It is nothing like MIT or Stanford.

DP but you can also get into MIT and Stanford with that score. Just a matter of how likely.

Complete BS.

MIT SAT range is [1520,1580]

[Anonymous]

Have fun if you think there's anything useful to be gained by arguing about MIT versus Stanford versus Dartmouth. They are three very different schools and all of them are a tough admit.

[Anonymous]

Dartmouth SAT profile [1440,1560] which is a very varied profile. They aren’t looking for the academic best, but someone interesting.

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Anonymous wrote:Simultaneously there are post talking about how these same schools admit a high proportion of students based on nonacademic criteria.

Top universities cannot truly be considered “top,” so long as they continue to admit a high proportion of students based on nonacademic criteria.

What are you even talking about?. HYPSM, Dartmouth, The others? You're not getting into those without top grades and top rigor. You're not going to find any academic slouches at those schools.

Be for real, you can get into Dartmouth with a middling 1400 sat score. It is nothing like MIT or Stanford.

DP but you can also get into MIT and Stanford with that score. Just a matter of how likely.

Complete BS.

MIT SAT range is [1520,1580]

Those are the 25th, 75th percentiles. Are you saying nobody scores lower than that?

[Anonymous]

97th Percentile (Remainder)

21. Vanderbilt
22. Claremont McKenna
23. UFlorida
24. WashU
25. Wellesley
26. Washington and Lee
27. Harvey Mudd

96th Percentile

28. Pomona
29. Cornell
30. Amherst
31. UCSD
32. UCLA
33. Hamilton
34. UCB
36. Middlebury

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:97th Percentile (Remainder)

21. Vanderbilt
22. Claremont McKenna
23. UFlorida
24. WashU
25. Wellesley
26. Washington and Lee
27. Harvey Mudd

96th Percentile

28. Pomona
29. Cornell
30. Amherst
31. UCSD
32. UCLA
33. Hamilton
34. UCB
36. Middlebury

This is made up.

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Anonymous wrote:Simultaneously there are post talking about how these same schools admit a high proportion of students based on nonacademic criteria.

Top universities cannot truly be considered “top,” so long as they continue to admit a high proportion of students based on nonacademic criteria.

What are you even talking about?. HYPSM, Dartmouth, The others? You're not getting into those without top grades and top rigor. You're not going to find any academic slouches at those schools.

Be for real, you can get into Dartmouth with a middling 1400 sat score. It is nothing like MIT or Stanford.

DP but you can also get into MIT and Stanford with that score. Just a matter of how likely.

Complete BS.

MIT SAT range is [1520,1580]

Those are the 25th, 75th percentiles. Are you saying nobody scores lower than that?

Not on average. They’d be at the bottom of their class. Meanwhile, at Dartmouth, they’d be…in the middle.