Anonymous wrote:DC doesn’t have a dream school but MIT is definitely top 5. Along with Stanford Princeton Caltech and maybe Yale.

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Top 10 'dream' colleges and universities in 2025
As named by students applying to college

The list shows the top 10 dream schools as named by students applying to college in 2025.

1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2. Harvard College Mass.
3. Stanford University Calif.
4. Princeton University N.J.
5. Yale University Conn.
6. Columbia University N.Y.
7. New York University
8. University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
9. University of Pennsylvania
10. University of California–Los Angeles

Source: The Princeton Review’s 2025 College Hopes & Worries Survey
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Wow, shocked. Most average kids I know want a big rah rah school. Michigan is the only one here that has that.

If "big rah rah" means a lot of school spirit and sports, UCLA has a ton of it too. DD graduated last year.

Winning sports. UCLA doesn't really have that for the major sports, unless you are counting women's basketball.

UCLA: 124 NCAA championships, across 20 different sports (including football, baseball and of course men’s and women’s basketball)

Michigan: 39 NCAA championships, across 10 different sports (including football, baseball, and men’s basketball)

On top of those lil’ inconvenient details, UCLA also whomp whomps all over Michigan when it comes to academic reputation, and has for decades.

Here’s a lil’ inconvenient detail that the UCLA booster failed to mention. Michigan has always had, and still does, a higher PA score at USNWR since the rankings started way back in the eighties. You know that score that actually shows “academic reputation” among peer institutions. Michigan whomp whomps UCLA in this most important metric.

Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota … is there really a meaningful difference?

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Anonymous wrote:https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/04/college-hopefuls-have-a-new-ultimate-dream-school-its-not-harvard.html

Top 10 'dream' colleges and universities in 2025
As named by students applying to college

The list shows the top 10 dream schools as named by students applying to college in 2025.

1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2. Harvard College Mass.
3. Stanford University Calif.
4. Princeton University N.J.
5. Yale University Conn.
6. Columbia University N.Y.
7. New York University
8. University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
9. University of Pennsylvania
10. University of California–Los Angeles

Source: The Princeton Review’s 2025 College Hopes & Worries Survey
CNBC

Wow, shocked. Most average kids I know want a big rah rah school. Michigan is the only one here that has that.

If "big rah rah" means a lot of school spirit and sports, UCLA has a ton of it too. DD graduated last year.

Winning sports. UCLA doesn't really have that for the major sports, unless you are counting women's basketball.

UCLA: 124 NCAA championships, across 20 different sports (including football, baseball and of course men’s and women’s basketball)

Michigan: 39 NCAA championships, across 10 different sports (including football, baseball, and men’s basketball)

On top of those lil’ inconvenient details, UCLA also whomp whomps all over Michigan when it comes to academic reputation, and has for decades.

Here’s a lil’ inconvenient detail that the UCLA booster failed to mention. Michigan has always had, and still does, a higher PA score at USNWR since the rankings started way back in the eighties. You know that score that actually shows “academic reputation” among peer institutions. Michigan whomp whomps UCLA in this most important metric.

If I wanted to attend college in flyover country, freeze my ass off alongside an army of mediocre in-state jamokes and annoying mouthbreathers from NY/NJ central casting, and spend my life defending my alma mater’s reputation based on rankings that have been MIA since before I was born, you’re right - Michigan would probably be a decent target school. Hail, indeed.

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Anonymous wrote:https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/04/college-hopefuls-have-a-new-ultimate-dream-school-its-not-harvard.html

Top 10 'dream' colleges and universities in 2025
As named by students applying to college

The list shows the top 10 dream schools as named by students applying to college in 2025.

1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2. Harvard College Mass.
3. Stanford University Calif.
4. Princeton University N.J.
5. Yale University Conn.
6. Columbia University N.Y.
7. New York University
8. University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
9. University of Pennsylvania
10. University of California–Los Angeles

Source: The Princeton Review’s 2025 College Hopes & Worries Survey
CNBC

Wow, shocked. Most average kids I know want a big rah rah school. Michigan is the only one here that has that.

If "big rah rah" means a lot of school spirit and sports, UCLA has a ton of it too. DD graduated last year.

Winning sports. UCLA doesn't really have that for the major sports, unless you are counting women's basketball.

UCLA: 124 NCAA championships, across 20 different sports (including football, baseball and of course men’s and women’s basketball)

Michigan: 39 NCAA championships, across 10 different sports (including football, baseball, and men’s basketball)

On top of those lil’ inconvenient details, UCLA also whomp whomps all over Michigan when it comes to academic reputation, and has for decades.

Here’s a lil’ inconvenient detail that the UCLA booster failed to mention. Michigan has always had, and still does, a higher PA score at USNWR since the rankings started way back in the eighties. You know that score that actually shows “academic reputation” among peer institutions. Michigan whomp whomps UCLA in this most important metric.

Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota … is there really a meaningful difference?

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Anonymous wrote:https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/04/college-hopefuls-have-a-new-ultimate-dream-school-its-not-harvard.html

Top 10 'dream' colleges and universities in 2025
As named by students applying to college

The list shows the top 10 dream schools as named by students applying to college in 2025.

1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2. Harvard College Mass.
3. Stanford University Calif.
4. Princeton University N.J.
5. Yale University Conn.
6. Columbia University N.Y.
7. New York University
8. University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
9. University of Pennsylvania
10. University of California–Los Angeles

Source: The Princeton Review’s 2025 College Hopes & Worries Survey
CNBC

Wow, shocked. Most average kids I know want a big rah rah school. Michigan is the only one here that has that.

If "big rah rah" means a lot of school spirit and sports, UCLA has a ton of it too. DD graduated last year.

Winning sports. UCLA doesn't really have that for the major sports, unless you are counting women's basketball.

UCLA: 124 NCAA championships, across 20 different sports (including football, baseball and of course men’s and women’s basketball)

Michigan: 39 NCAA championships, across 10 different sports (including football, baseball, and men’s basketball)

On top of those lil’ inconvenient details, UCLA also whomp whomps all over Michigan when it comes to academic reputation, and has for decades.

Here’s a lil’ inconvenient detail that the UCLA booster failed to mention. Michigan has always had, and still does, a higher PA score at USNWR since the rankings started way back in the eighties. You know that score that actually shows “academic reputation” among peer institutions. Michigan whomp whomps UCLA in this most important metric.

If I wanted to attend college in flyover country, freeze my ass off alongside an army of mediocre in-state jamokes and annoying mouthbreathers from NY/NJ central casting, and spend my life defending my alma mater’s reputation based on rankings that have been MIA since before I was born, you’re right - Michigan would probably be a decent target school. Hail, indeed.

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Anonymous wrote:https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/04/college-hopefuls-have-a-new-ultimate-dream-school-its-not-harvard.html

Top 10 'dream' colleges and universities in 2025
As named by students applying to college

The list shows the top 10 dream schools as named by students applying to college in 2025.

1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2. Harvard College Mass.
3. Stanford University Calif.
4. Princeton University N.J.
5. Yale University Conn.
6. Columbia University N.Y.
7. New York University
8. University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
9. University of Pennsylvania
10. University of California–Los Angeles

Source: The Princeton Review’s 2025 College Hopes & Worries Survey
CNBC

Wow, shocked. Most average kids I know want a big rah rah school. Michigan is the only one here that has that.

If "big rah rah" means a lot of school spirit and sports, UCLA has a ton of it too. DD graduated last year.

Winning sports. UCLA doesn't really have that for the major sports, unless you are counting women's basketball.

UCLA: 124 NCAA championships, across 20 different sports (including football, baseball and of course men’s and women’s basketball)

Michigan: 39 NCAA championships, across 10 different sports (including football, baseball, and men’s basketball)

On top of those lil’ inconvenient details, UCLA also whomp whomps all over Michigan when it comes to academic reputation, and has for decades.

Here’s a lil’ inconvenient detail that the UCLA booster failed to mention. Michigan has always had, and still does, a higher PA score at USNWR since the rankings started way back in the eighties. You know that score that actually shows “academic reputation” among peer institutions. Michigan whomp whomps UCLA in this most important metric.

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Anonymous wrote:https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/04/college-hopefuls-have-a-new-ultimate-dream-school-its-not-harvard.html

Top 10 'dream' colleges and universities in 2025
As named by students applying to college

The list shows the top 10 dream schools as named by students applying to college in 2025.

1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2. Harvard College Mass.
3. Stanford University Calif.
4. Princeton University N.J.
5. Yale University Conn.
6. Columbia University N.Y.
7. New York University
8. University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
9. University of Pennsylvania
10. University of California–Los Angeles

Source: The Princeton Review’s 2025 College Hopes & Worries Survey
CNBC

Wow, shocked. Most average kids I know want a big rah rah school. Michigan is the only one here that has that.

If "big rah rah" means a lot of school spirit and sports, UCLA has a ton of it too. DD graduated last year.

Winning sports. UCLA doesn't really have that for the major sports, unless you are counting women's basketball.

UCLA: 124 NCAA championships, across 20 different sports (including football, baseball and of course men’s and women’s basketball)

Michigan: 39 NCAA championships, across 10 different sports (including football, baseball, and men’s basketball)

On top of those lil’ inconvenient details, UCLA also whomp whomps all over Michigan when it comes to academic reputation, and has for decades.

Here’s a lil’ inconvenient detail that the UCLA booster failed to mention. Michigan has always had, and still does, a higher PA score at USNWR since the rankings started way back in the eighties. You know that score that actually shows “academic reputation” among peer institutions. Michigan whomp whomps UCLA in this most important metric.

Anonymous wrote:Ucla has “big time” sports. But it is hardly a rah-rah school these days(maybe a positive in some people’s minds). The athletic director is weak. The athletic department is a mess of sit on their hands bureaucrats. Student engagement & alumni support for football & basketball is poor & continuing to sag. The football program is lackluster & sinking. They have trouble getting people out to the Rose Bowl(tarp bowl) for games. Basketball is not looking good & apart from maybe 2-3 games a yr, Pauley is 1/2 full & a relative library. Nice school, nice setting, some smart kids, but school spirit & sports culture does not compare to Michigan. Not even close.

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Anonymous wrote:https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/04/college-hopefuls-have-a-new-ultimate-dream-school-its-not-harvard.html

Top 10 'dream' colleges and universities in 2025
As named by students applying to college

The list shows the top 10 dream schools as named by students applying to college in 2025.

1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2. Harvard College Mass.
3. Stanford University Calif.
4. Princeton University N.J.
5. Yale University Conn.
6. Columbia University N.Y.
7. New York University
8. University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
9. University of Pennsylvania
10. University of California–Los Angeles

Source: The Princeton Review’s 2025 College Hopes & Worries Survey
CNBC

Wow, shocked. Most average kids I know want a big rah rah school. Michigan is the only one here that has that.

If "big rah rah" means a lot of school spirit and sports, UCLA has a ton of it too. DD graduated last year.

Winning sports. UCLA doesn't really have that for the major sports, unless you are counting women's basketball.

UCLA: 124 NCAA championships, across 20 different sports (including football, baseball and of course men’s and women’s basketball)

Michigan: 39 NCAA championships, across 10 different sports (including football, baseball, and men’s basketball)

On top of those lil’ inconvenient details, UCLA also whomp whomps all over Michigan when it comes to academic reputation, and has for decades.

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/04/college-hopefuls-have-a-new-ultimate-dream-school-its-not-harvard.html

Top 10 'dream' colleges and universities in 2025
As named by students applying to college

The list shows the top 10 dream schools as named by students applying to college in 2025.

1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2. Harvard College Mass.
3. Stanford University Calif.
4. Princeton University N.J.
5. Yale University Conn.
6. Columbia University N.Y.
7. New York University
8. University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
9. University of Pennsylvania
10. University of California–Los Angeles

Source: The Princeton Review’s 2025 College Hopes & Worries Survey
CNBC

Wow, shocked. Most average kids I know want a big rah rah school. Michigan is the only one here that has that.

If "big rah rah" means a lot of school spirit and sports, UCLA has a ton of it too. DD graduated last year.

Winning sports. UCLA doesn't really have that for the major sports, unless you are counting women's basketball.

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Anonymous wrote:I truly don't understand why Michigan is so hot. It's just another big state school. They're all so similar!

I don’t get it either, it’s so cold and far for most. I always think of Sasha Obama and Madonna’s dd transferring out.

Far from DC you mean right? Michigan does just about everything very well. It offers the complete collegiate experience.

Far from most places people apply from.

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Anonymous wrote:Northeastern? Bucknell?

Northeastern has 6% acceptance rate and a lot of students ED. So it's obviously a dream school for many high stat kids but just didn't make top 10.

Northeastern gets everyone and their cat to apply. Acceptance rate tells nothing about this particular university. It is a T50-60 school on par with Case Western at best.

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Anonymous wrote:Northeastern? Bucknell?

Northeastern has 6% acceptance rate and a lot of students ED. So it's obviously a dream school for many high stat kids but just didn't make top 10.

Northeastern gets everyone and their cat to apply. Acceptance rate tells nothing about this particular university. It is a T50-60 school on par with Case Western at best.