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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I find it difficult to include any SLAC among the top 20 to 25 colleges and universities for a variety of reasons including the option of honors colleges at large state public universities which, arguably, provide the best of both worlds. I think that US News is correct in separating rankings for National Universities & Liberal Arts Colleges (LACs).

Responding to the thread question to list one's top 50 National Universities and Liberal Arts Colleges (LACs), but excluding the service academies (I would rank all three main service academies--USNA, USMA, & USAFA--among the first group of schools along with several other specialty schools such as USCGA,  Juilliard, Curtis Institute of Music, Webb Institute of Naval Architecture, maritime academies, RISD, Cooper Union, Olin, Rose Hulman, & Berea College) :

Group One: Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, MIT, CalTech, & UPenn's Wharton School of Business.

Group Two: Northwestern, Chicago, Duke, Johns Hopkins, Carnegie Mellon, Rice, Columbia, Penn, Brown, WashUStL, & Georgetown's School of Foreign Service.

Group Three: Cornell, Dartmouth, Vanderbilt, Williams College, Harvey Mudd, Claremont McKenna College, Pomona College, Swarthmore College & Amherst College.

Group Four: UC-Berkeley & UCLA & UC-San Diego, Georgia Tech & Michigan (all great schools, but large class sizes & poor student: teacher ratios).

Group Five: Virginia, William & Mary, Wellesley College, Notre Dame, Emory, Barnard College, USC, & Georgetown.

Group Six: NYU, UNC, Wake Forest, Davidson College, Bowdoin College, Carleton College, Middlebury College, Boston College, Hamilton College, Cal Poly & Tufts.[/quote]

This is so bad. WashUStL in group 2? CMU is only in group 2 for CS, not overall. If you're going to include Chicago, Hopkins, and Rice in group 2, you have to put Dartmouth. UCSD above USC, Notre Dame, and Georgetown? I could go on-and-on about the problems with this.[/quote]

Don't bother as you obviously do not know schools well.[/quote]

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