What would you consider the top colleges?( Besides Ivy league schools)?

Amherst

Williams

Haverford

Holy Cross

Davidson

Claremont McKenna

Wellesley

Carleton

Pomona

Johns Hopkins University

Stanford

MIT

Carnegie Mellon

Swarthmore College

All those schools are not Ivy League, but still very competitive.

A list of slightly less competitive schools:

George Washington University

University of Delaware

Lafayette

American University

Lehigh

Drexel University

All of the above schools have a 25th percentile for ACT scores at 25 (give or take a point) and are all very good schools. The first list contains schools with their 25th percentile closer to 30.

In no particular order, these are often regarded as top-notch schools:

• Stanford University

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• Duke University

• Carnegie Mellon University

• California Institute of Technology

• New York University

• Georgetown University

• University of California, Berkeley

• Northwestern University

• Rice University

• University of Rochester

• University of Notre Dame

-- Rosie ♥

Duke University in Durham, NC (known for their renowned medical center and top-rate business and medical schools) and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (alma mater of Michael Jordan-they've retired his basketball jersey, the infamous #23; also known for their top-ranked medical and business programs. Those schools are attended by people who graduated around the top of their class. Plus, one of the best collegiate rivalries: Duke Blue Devils vs the UNC Tar Heels

U.Chicago is the #4 school in the country, including Ivy's.