The Drool Schools: The Second-Most Selective Colleges and/or Most Unpredictable in Terms of Admission

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• Barnard College (New York, NY)
• Bates College (Lewiston, ME)
• Boston College (Chestnut Hill, MA)
• Bowdoin College (Brunswick, ME)
• Bryn Mawr College (Bryn Mawr, PA)
• Bucknell University (Lewisburg, PA)
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• Carleton College (Northfield, MN)
• Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA)
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• Claremont McKenna College (Claremont, CA)
• Colby College (Waterville, ME)
• Colgate University (Hamilton, NY)
• College of William & Mary (Williamsburg, VA)
• Cornell University (Ithaca, NY)
• Curtis Institute of Music (Philadelphia, PA)
• Dartmouth College (Hanover , NH)
• Duke University (Durham, NC)
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• Emory University (Atlanta, GA)
• Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering (Needham, MA)
• Georgetown University (Washington, DC)
• Harvey Mudd College (Claremont, CA)
• Haverford College (Haverford, PA)
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• Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, MD)
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• Juilliard School (New York, NY)
• Middlebury College (Middlebury, VT)
• New York University (New York, NY)
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• Northwestern University (Evanston, IL)
• Oberlin College (Oberlin, OH)
• Rice University (Houston, TX)
• Tufts University (Medford, MA)
• University of California — Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA)
• University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley, CA)
• University of California, San Diego (La Jolla, CA)
• University of Michigan — Ann Arbor (Ann Arbor, MI)
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• University of North Carolina Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, NC)
• University of Notre Dame (Notre Dame, IN)
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• University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA)
• University of Southern California (Los Angeles, CA)
• University of Virginia (Charlottesville, VA)
• Vanderbilt University (Nashville, TN)
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• Vassar College (Poughkeepsie, NY)
• Washington University (St. Louis, MO)
• Wellesley College (Wellesley, MA)
• Wesleyan University (MIddletown , CT)