ZT: College Hopes and Worries Survey - 2009

The Princeton Review conducts our College Hopes and Worries survey of college applicants and parents of applicants to gauge their expectations surrounding the college admissions process.  Respondents are readers of The Best 368 Colleges and users of our website. 

During the months of January through mid-March we collected 15,722 responses - 12,715 from college applicants and 3,007 from parents - representing all 50 states, DC, the Virgin Islands, Guam and Puerto Rico.  An abridged summary is below.

What "dream" college do you wish you (your child) could attend if acceptance and/or cost were not issues?  (fill in the blank)

	Students	Parents
1	Stanford University	Harvard College
2	Harvard College	Stanford University
3	Columbia University	Princeton University
4	Princeton University	Notre Dame
5	New York University	Yale University
6	Yale University	New York University
7	University of California - Los Angeles	University of California - Los Angeles
8	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Duke University
9	University of Southern California	University of Southern California
10	University of California - Berkeley	Massachusetts Institute of Technology