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!!!