Very Selective Schools
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Very selective schools are roughly schools ranked 51-150 in the country. They include some of best public, private and liberal arts schools in the country. If you are at this level of selectivity, that means that our team of college admissions experts think that you have a good chance to get into some schools in this group assuming you apply to several of them and keep up the same level until you graduate. Of course, no one knows for sure what schools you will get into (and don’t believe anyone who tells you they do) except the admissions officer reading your application. So, we always recommend students apply to several colleges at both higher levels and lower levels than the one they are tracking to (in addition to several in their tier).
Schools at this level of selectivity include
American University
Bentley University
Boston University
Brandeis University
Bryn Mawr College
Bucknell University
California Polytechnic State University--San Luis Obispo
California State University--Long Beach
Centre College
Clemson University
College of New Jersey
College of the Ozarks
College of Wooster
Davidson College
DePauw University
Florida State University
George Washington University
Haverford College
Illinois Institute of Technology
Illinois Wesleyan University
Kenyon College
Lafayette College
Macalester College
Michigan Technological University
Milwaukee School of Engineering
New York University
North Carolina State University--Raleigh
Oberlin College
Occidental College
Ohio State University--Columbus
Pepperdine University
Purdue University--West Lafayette
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Rhodes College
Rochester Institute of Technology
Santa Clara University
Scripps College
Skidmore College
Southern Methodist University
Southwestern University
St. Olaf College
Stony Brook University--SUNY
Syracuse University
Texas A&M University--College Station
Trinity University
Truman State University
Tulane University
University at Buffalo--SUNY
University of California--Davis
University of California--Riverside
University of California--Santa Cruz
University of Connecticut
University of Delaware
University of Georgia
University of Illinois--Urbana-Champaign
University of Massachusetts--Amherst
University of Miami
University of Minnesota--Twin Cities
University of South Florida
University of Tulsa
University of Washington
University of Wisconsin--Madison
Villanova University
Virginia Military Institute
Whitman College