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There are the choices, I tried my best to include as many states as possible which are known for having top notch universities.
Certain states were left off. Michigan was left off because although the University of Michigan is great academically, other universities in the state are not as prestigious. The states on the list had more than one good university. Some had a good state university and a well known private university.
New York: Columbia, Cornell, NYU etc
Georgia: Georgia Tech and Emory
California: UC Berkeley, Stanford, UCLA, and Cal Tech
Texas: UT and Rice
Massachusetts: MIT, Harvard, Boston College, Boston U, and Tufts.
Virginia: UVA, William and Mary, and if you count the DC areas I guess Georgetown can be mentioned but I didn't count the DC areas in this one.
North Carolina: Chapel Hill and Wake Forest (NC state has a great engineering program)
Illinois: University of Chicago, University of Illinois at Urbana, and Northwestern
Florida: University of Miami, University of Florida, and (wow, maybe I shouldn't have put it on the list)
CA easily, it is so big. You left off many universities.
Such as NC, you left out Duke...it is better than the two you listed.
You left out USC in CA, better than some of the other entire state options.
For state schools PA has a pretty decent system. Much better than MD (I've had kids in state schools in both states. PA tuition was less than MD even though daughter was out of state). MD has a couple decent private schools, Hopkins being one.
Michigan state isn't really that highly ranked, is it a good school? Maybe but I am sure it is not a top 50 university. U of M is considered to be one of the top public universities in the US after Berkeley and UVA.
Curious- why did you include private schools in the evaluation? It's not as if state residency helps for admissions....
California and Massachusetts are probably tied in my mind. Cali has stronger public schools, plus some stand-out privates. Mass has the strongest collection of private schools in the US- you left out Amherst and Wellesley (two Top 10 national liberal arts colleges), as well as some other very strong private schools like Berklee School of Music.
Curious- why did you include private schools in the evaluation? It's not as if state residency helps for admissions....
California and Massachusetts are probably tied in my mind. Cali has stronger public schools, plus some stand-out privates. Mass has the strongest collection of private schools in the US- you left out Amherst and Wellesley (two Top 10 national liberal arts colleges), as well as some other very strong private schools like Berklee School of Music.
he left out several in ca, ny, ma, pa, nc, il, fl...oh well.
I voted for MA(it has the most prestigious private colleges),but I think all New England states should be on this poll.I could easily vote CT if it was on this poll because it has nice mix of public Ivy(UConn),private Ivy(Yale) and other great colleges(Wesleyan,Trinity college,Fairfield)
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