Top 5 Colleges
Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636, it is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States. Harvard is one of the top colleges because of the great amount of options all throughout the campus. Harvard has an acceptance rate of 4% (Image: careerguide).
Stanford University is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies 8,180 acres, among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students.
Stanford University has an acceptance rate of 4% (Image: Pamela Meister).
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a significant role in the development of many areas of modern technology and science. Along with Stanford MIT also has a very small acceptance rate of 4% (Image: The Luxurist).
Yale University is a private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Founded in 1701, Yale is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States. Yales Acceptance rate is closer to arround 5% but can change from year to year (Image: Ankita Nagpal).
Princeton University is a private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 it is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States. Princeton is the highest Acceptance rate out of the top five schools, 5.7% being very high for an ivy (Image: Ankita Nagpal).