Another rating Princeton Review provides is an overall score taking into account things like dorm and food quality, the beauty of the campus, the relationship with the town, and the responsiveness of the administration. All of these things have at least some value to me, so I’m using these numbers from the same book. Here are the schools where students rate their overall experience at 90 or above.
Air Force Academy
Barnard
Bates
Boston U
Bowdoin
Brown
Bryn Mawr
CalTech
Carleton
Case Western
Claremont McKenna
Cornell
Dartmouth
Emory
Fordham
Franklin W. Olin
Georgia Tech
Harvey Mudd
Haverford
Macalester
Middlebury
MIT
Mt. Holyoke
Northeastern
Occidental
Ohio State
Pitzer
Pomona
Princeton
Reed
Rice
Rose-Hulman
Scripps
Southern Methodist U
Stanford
Trinity U
Tufts
Tulane
U Georgia
U Miami
U Michigan
U Pittsburgh
U Richmond
U Texas
UC Santa Barbara
U North Carolina Chapel Hill
Vanderbilt
Washington U in St. Louis
William and Mary
Williams
U Wisconsin
Yale
Okay, now let’s put all of this together! Many of you will undoubtedly be tempted to go straight for the list, but please be sure read the notes that come before it. They’re important!!!