1:55 PM, August 30th, 2011

A Comparison: Newsweek’s Brainiac Versus Most Rigorous Colleges

1 Yale University /   St. John’s College (NM)

2 Princeton University /   Furman University

3 Harvard University /    Middlebury College

4 Stanford University /    Franklin and Marshall College

5 Brown University /    Columbia University

6 Williams College /    Dartmouth College

7 Swarthmore College /    University of Chicago

8 Pomona College /    St. John’s College (MD)

9 Massachusetts Institute of Technology /    Harvey Mudd College

10 Haverford College /    Grinnell College

11 Wellesley College /    Wellesley College

12 Middlebury College /    Mount Holyoke College

13 Carleton College /    Wake Forest University

14 Davidson College /    Oberlin College

15 Dartmouth College /    Swarthmore College

16 Duke University /    Bard College

17 University of Chicago /    Harvard University

18 Wesleyan University /    Lawrence University

19 Wheaton College (Massachusetts) /    Bowdoin College

20 St. John’s College (Maryland) /    Princeton University

21 United States Military Academy /    Reed College

22 Macalester College /    College of the Holy Cross

23 Columbia University /    Yale University

24 Rice University /    Bryn Mawr College

25 Vassar College /    Stanford University

So Wellesley is doing something right.

(Source: thedailybeast.com)

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    Indeed perhaps I can just attach this to a resume? 0_o
  7. nattybo reblogged this from cheatsheet and added:
    Not too shabby being compared to Stanford. Perhaps my education was worth me paying off loans until I am 35!
  8. dysdaimon reblogged this from cheatsheet and added:
    cool my school’s on there three times or whatever ugh
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    HEY WHERE’S VCU?!!!11ONE
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    Ephs, what up? Top Six? Not too shabby. The Mountains,...mountains……………..
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  14. thekeri said: I’m surprised MIT didn’t end up on the Most Rigorous list, and not just because four years there nearly killed me.
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