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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Harvard
Stanford
MIT
Yale
Princeton
Caltech
Columbia
Chicago
Northwestern
Duke
Brown
Cornell
Johns Hopkins
Dartmouth
Georgetown
UC Berkeley
UCLA[/quote]

Eh. Wouldn't include the UCs. Would add Rice, Penn, and Vanderbilt. Would lower Northwestern and Georgetown. CalTech, ok fine, brilliant but such a small, unique school for undergrad. Would add Michigan. People value STEM these days.

My personal real world list would be

MIT
Stanford
Harvard
Princeton
Duke
Penn
CalTech
Yale
Chicago
Brown
Columbia 
Northwestern
Rice
Dartmouth
Vanderbilt
Michigan 
Cornell
Georgetown 
Carnegie Mellon
Johns Hopkins 
UC-Berkeley
UCLA
Notre Dame
Williams
Amherst
Naval Academy
West Point
UVA[/quote]
Would kick out UVA and remove the Naval Academy. Would probably add Pomona and Swarthmore, and undoubtedly would keep Berkeley and UCLA. Would remove Rice and Johns Hopkins.[/quote]

Removing Rice and Hopkins which are more well known nationally - especially Hopkins compared to any LAC is funny.  Especially since the top 3 LACs suck at stem and have no engineering.[/quote]
Rice is not that well known. Hopkins is great for premed and math...and that's about the whole list. No, the top 3 lacs don't suck at STEM, they create a significant amount of top researchers and produce PHDs in the hard sciences and math. The engineering obsession has decayed your brain.[/quote]

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