This list addresses which school students think are the toughest to get into.
10. Columbia University in NYC
9. University Of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia
8. Washington University in St. Louis in St. Louis - I'd never heard of this school
7. Stanford University in Palo Alto, CA
6. California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, CA
5. Yale University in New Haven, CT
4. Brown University in Providence, RI
3. Harvard College in Cambridge, MA
2. Princeton University in Princeton, NJ
1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, MA
Other schools take a lower percentage of applications than MIT does, but apparently the qualifications for consideration into MIT are much higher...making it the most difficult to get into.
The admissions office boasts that MIT students are some of America's - and the world's best and most creative.
One MIT undergrad gives a glimpse - "There's a guy upstairs who unlocks his room with a thumbprint scanner."
When I went to school, I had to holler at my roommate to let me in, so he could move the chair from behind the door.
The Princeton Review rankings are a source of much debate, maybe even a few fist fights when the schools are neighbors. The book ranks schools in some 60+ different categories. The results are based on surveys given to those who should know best - the students who attend. And PR asked more than 115,000 such students.
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