1 Princeton University
Private
Cost: $47,975/year *
Class Size: 1,242
Student to Faculty Ratio: 5 to 1
SAT Range: 1390-1580 **
ACT Range: 30-34
% of applicants admitted: 10%
Application deadline: Jan. 1
Early admission:
What is the best reason for a prospective student to choose your school?
“The best reason for a prospective student to choose Princeton is because of the intense and somewhat exclusive focus on the undergraduate experience.”
Seth Priepatsche, Class of 2011
“[Princeton] integrates the best aspects of a liberal arts college and a major research university. This combination allows students to have close interactions with faculty members in their classes as well as [in] their labs, where they are exposed to cutting-edge research. Students can [also] explore and combine a wide range of interests, from classics to sports to public policy to engineering.”
Dean H. Vincent Poor, School of Engineering and Applied Science
Sources: Princeton University, U.S. Department of Education, The College Board
*Cost includes tuition, room and board, books, fees, and other expenses.
**Range for Critical Reading and Mathematics sections. Does not include writing score.
2 California Institute of Technology
Private
Cost: $46,560/year *
Class Size: 231
Student to Faculty Ratio: 3 to 1
SAT Range: 1470-1580 **
ACT Range: 32-35
% of applicants admitted: 17%
Application deadline: Jan. 1
Early admission: Nov. 1
What is the best reason for a prospective student to choose your school?
“The working environment that we have at Caltech. It’s such a small school that you feel like an individual student, not one of a faceless mass of students. There’s a lot of trust put in you, so you feel responsible for yourself. The Caltech environment that we have is a really collaborative environment, not a competitive environment. All the homework assignments are collaborative, so you work together to solve problems.”
Sierra Petersen, Class of 2009
“We are a very significant research university, but we deliberately have a relatively small number of undergrads—about 900. That translates into unusual access to faculty and very unusual access to research opportunities.”
Rick Bischoff, Director of Admissions
Sources: California Institute of Technology, The College Board
*Cost includes tuition, room and board, books, fees, and other expenses.
**Range for Critical Reading and Mathematics sections. Does not include writing score.
#3 Harvard University
Private
Cost: $48,550/year *
Class Size: 1,668
Student to Faculty Ratio: 8 to 1
SAT Range: 1400-1590 **
ACT Range: 31-35
% of applicants admitted: 9%
Application deadline: Jan. 1
Early admission: Dec. 1
What is the best reason for a prospective student to choose your school?
“Because of its name, Harvard University attracts the most talented, special and diverse young adults from around the world. If for nothing else, choose Harvard for the opportunity to be a part of a such a unique community. The things I have learned from my peers, many of whom have already achieved in youth what most people dream of achieving in a lifetime, have been worth more than any academic degree.”
Stephen Piatelli, Class of 2010
“The pursuit of excellence has long been a hallmark of Harvard. Harvard College…has endeavored to assemble promising students and distinguished faculty in a community designed to stimulate and inspire its members to develop their talents to the fullest. Harvard’s faculty and academic facilities-laboratories, libraries and museums are unsurpassed, including our new School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Harvard students learn in classrooms and labs from professors who are leading authorities in their fields. Perhaps most important, Harvard offers its undergraduates the privilege of studying with exceptionally talented and motivated peers from all over the globe. Admission is based on achievement and promise without regard to financial need. Over the past several years, Harvard has launched a number of major financial aid initiatives to benefit all students, who now have more time to concentrate on academic and extracurricular opportunities.”
William R. Fitzsimmons, Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid
Sources: Harvard University, College Board, U.S. Department of Education
*Cost includes tuition, room and board, books, fees, and other expenses.
**Range for Critical Reading and Mathematics sections. Does not include writing score.
#4 Swarthmore College
Private
Cost: $48,215/year *
Class Size: 365
Student to Faculty Ratio: 8 to 1
SAT Range: 1360 – 1540 **
ACT Range: 27 – 33
% of applicants admitted: 18%
Application deadline: Jan. 1
Early admission: Nov. 14
What is the best reason for a prospective student to choose your school?
“I think that the best reason for a candidate to choose Swarthmore is probably if he or she wants to go to a school that is really focused on academic excellence and to be surrounded by people who are drawn to that sort of environment. That probably sums it up the best; Swarthmore asks students to focus on their studies a great deal, but it can also be a really wonderful place to meet people who are more interesting than any others I’ve ever encountered.”
Nora Nussbaum, Class of 2008
“Not available”
Sources: Swarthmore College, U.S. Department of Education, The College Board
*Cost includes tuition, room and board, books, fees, and other expenses.
**Range for Critical Reading and Mathematics sections. Does not include writing score.
5 Williams College
Private
Cost: $47,140/year *
Class Size: 540
Student to Faculty Ratio: 7 to 1
SAT Range: 1340-1520 **
ACT Range: 29-33
% of applicants admitted: 18.5%
Application deadline: Jan. 1
Early admission: Nov. 10
What is the best reason for a prospective student to choose your school?
“Williams offers hundreds of “Oxford-style” tutorials—classes with just two students and a professor. … Everyone says that they are their best classes. No other school offers nearly as many, and the tutorials that I have taken are by far the best academic experiences I have had. Your professors get to know you extremely well, and you feel like an expert on the topic by the end of the semester.”
Jeffrey Kaplan, Class of 2009
“Not available”
Sources: Williams College, U.S. Department of Education, The College Board
*Cost includes tuition, room and board, books, fees, and other expenses.
**Range for Critical Reading and Mathematics sections. Does not include writing score.
6 United States Military Academy
Public
Cost: NA/year *
Class Size: 1,272
Student to Faculty Ratio: 1 to 6
SAT Range: 1160-1360 **
ACT Range: 26-29
% of applicants admitted: 12.75%
Application deadline: Feb. 28
Early admission:
What is the best reason for a prospective student to choose your school?
“The Academy is for a serious minded, motivated individual who seeks personal challenge and self-development within an ethically oriented environment, combined with an ultimate desire to serve the nation in war or peace.”
James Flannery, Class of 2011
“To obtain the best leadership training in the world and receive a Tier 1 classical undergraduate education, and ultimately become a commissioned leader of character in the United States Army.”
Deborah J. McDonald, Director of Admissions
Sources: United States Miliarty Academy, U.S. Department of Education, The College Board
*Cost includes tuition, room and board, books, fees, and other expenses.
**Range for Critical Reading and Mathematics sections. Does not include writing score.
7 Amherst College
Private
Cost: $48,352/year *
Class Size: NA
Student to Faculty Ratio: 8 to 1
SAT Range: 1330-1530 **
ACT Range:
% of applicants admitted: 18%
Application deadline: Jan. 15
Early admission: Nov. 15
What is the best reason for a prospective student to choose your school?
“Amherst provides an unmatched educational environment, where the accessibility and knowledge of the professors allow each student to have the most complete education possible. This, in combination with the communal atmosphere that a college of Amherst’s size features, makes the student feel completely at home while being away from home.”
Andre Gray, Class of 2009
“Amherst College is an unusually intellectually engaged and engaging college. Students are taken enormously seriously from the moment they arrive. They are both challenged and supported in defining their own intellectual agendas. The faculty are unusually dedicated to helping students in that pursuit.”
Austin Sarat, Senior Advisor to the Dean of the Faculty for Academic Life
Sources: Amherst College, U.S. Department of Education, The College Board
*Cost includes tuition, room and board, books, fees, and other expenses.
**Range for Critical Reading and Mathematics sections. Does not include writing score.
8 Wellesley College
Private
Cost: $47,870/year *
Class Size: 590
Student to Faculty Ratio: 9 to 1
SAT Range: 1300-1480 **
ACT Range: 29-32
% of applicants admitted: 35%
Application deadline: Jan. 15
Early admission: Nov. 1
What is the best reason for a prospective student to choose your school?
“The best reason for a female to choose this school is because it lives up to its motto—women who will make a difference in the world—and it empowers you. It gives you the confidence to go forward.”
Yaffa Fredrick, Class of 2011
“Young women from around the country and the world come to Wellesley looking for a rigorous academic experience with top-notch faculty and facilities, a diverse campus community, great research and internship opportunities and a powerful network of alumnae. Through our generous financial aid, including no required loans for the neediest students, we make a Wellesley education affordable to students regardless of their financial situation.”
Jennifer Desjarlais, Dean of Admission
Sources: Wellesley College, U.S. Department of Education, The College Board
*Cost includes tuition, room and board, books, fees, and other expenses.
**Range for Critical Reading and Mathematics sections. Does not include writing score.
9 Yale University
Private
Cost: $50,350/year *
Class Size: 1,318
Student to Faculty Ratio: 5 to 1
SAT Range: 1400-1590 **
ACT Range: 30-34
% of applicants admitted: 10%
Application deadline: Dec. 31
Early admission:
What is the best reason for a prospective student to choose your school?
“The unusual combination of tremendous financial and academic resources, a motivated yet supportive student body, and an encouraging and engaging faculty creates an atmosphere in which students feel comfortable expressing and challenging ideas and [are] capable of achieving their aspirations. This extremely positive academic environment is not at all what one would expect from a competitive Ivy League institution.”
Rex Isenberg, Class of 2009
“With its residential college system providing small, close-knit communities and the strong commitment to teaching by its eminent faculty, Yale College offers extraordinary students the best undergraduate experience available at a world-class research university.”
Jeffrey Brenzel, Dean of Undergraduate Admission
Sources: Yale University, U.S. Department of Education, The College Board
*Cost includes tuition, room and board, books, fees, and other expenses.
**Range for Critical Reading and Mathematics sections. Does not include writing score.
10 Columbia University
Private
Cost: $49,260/year *
Class Size: 1,333
Student to Faculty Ratio: 7 to 1
SAT Range: 1330-1540 **
ACT Range: 28-33
% of applicants admitted: 8.68%
Application deadline: Jan. 2
Early admission: Nov. 1
What is the best reason for a prospective student to choose your school?
“I guess the top reason is the combination of an Ivy League education and the unique environment that New York City provides. Even though this is the exact reason that every single admissions packet, guidance counselor, tour guide and alumnus spits out to people who ask this question, there is actual truth to it. I always hear people saying that everyone should live in New York City before they die. Columbia gives you that chance, while at the same time giving you an education that will actually get you prepared for after college. In the end, it provides so much more than just a piece of paper on graduation day.”
Alex Farrell, Class of 2009
“Columbia offers an education in a great American research university but also offers an education in and of New York City.”
Alan Brinkley, Provost
Sources: Columbia University, The College Board
*Cost includes tuition, room and board, books, fees, and other expenses.
**Range for Critical Reading and Mathematics sections. Does not include writing score.
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