Top 10 "Dream Colleges"
Answering the survey's only fill-in-the-blank question, "What 'dream college' do you wish you or your child could attend if acceptance or cost weren't issues?," respondents wrote in names of more than 500 institutions.
The colleges students most named as their "dream college" were:
1) Stanford University
2) Harvard College
3) Columbia University
4) New York University
5) Massachusetts Institute of Technology
6) Princeton University
7) University of California – Los Angeles
8) Yale University
9) University of Michigan – Ann Arbor
10) University of California – Berkeley
The colleges parents most named as their "dream college" for their children were:
1) Stanford University
2) Harvard College
3) Princeton University
4) Massachusetts Institute of Technology
5) University of Michigan – Ann Arbor
6) University of Notre Dame
7) Duke University
8) New York University
9) Yale University
10) Vanderbilt University
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