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The 50 Most Stressful Colleges

Stress of admissions not phasing you? Take a look at these colleges that are, according to TheDailyBeast.com, the most stressful.

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• 1. Stanford University (Stanford, CA)
• 2. Columbia University (New York, NY)
• 3. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA)
• 4. University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA)
• 5. Harvard University (Cambridge, MA)
• 6. Princeton University (Princeton, NJ)
• 7. Vanderbilt University (Nashville, TN)
• 8. Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA)
• 9. California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, CA)
• 10. Northwestern University (Evanston, IL)
• 11. University of Chicago (Chicago, IL)
• 12. Yale University (New Haven, CT)
• 13. Washington University in St. Louis (St. Louis, MO)
• 14. Dartmouth College (Hanover, NH)
• 15. Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, MD)
• 16. Duke University (Durham, NC)
• 17. Cornell University (Ithaca, NY)
• 18. University of Southern California (Los Angeles, CA)
• 19. Georgetown University (Washington, DC)
• 20. Brown University (Providence, RI)
• 21. Tufts University (Medford, MA)
• 22. Rice University (Houston, TX)
• 23. University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley, CA)
• 24. New York University (New York, NY)
• 25. Boston College (Chestnut Hill, MA)
• 26. Emory University (Atlanta, GA)
• 27. University of Notre Dame (Notre Dame, IN)
• 28. Wake Forest University (Winston Salem, NC)
• 29. University of Rochester (Rochester, NY)
• 30. University of California — Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA)
• 31. Brandeis University (Waltham, MA)
• 32. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, NY)
• 33. Lehigh University (Bethlehem, PA)
• 34. Tulane University (New Orleans, LA)
• 35. University of Michigan — Ann Arbor (Ann Arbor, MI)
• 36. University of Virginia (Charlottesville, VA)
• 37. University of California, San Diego (La Jolla, CA)
• 38. University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (Champaign, IL)
• 39. Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, OH)
• 40. Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, GA)
• 41. University of California, Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara, CA)
• 42. University of California, Davis (Davis, CA)
• 43. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, NC)
• 44. College of William and Mary (Williamsburg, VA)
• 45. University of Wisconsin — Madison (Madison, WI)
• 46. Pennsylvania State University — University Park (University Park, PA)
• 47. The University of Texas at Austin (Austin, TX)
• 48. University of Washington, Seattle (Seattle, WA)
• 49. University of California, Irvine (Irvine, CA)
• 50. University of Florida (Gainesville, FL)

Source: This list was used with permission from The Daily Beast. To view methodology and a great slideshow, visit their site: The 50 Most Stressful Colleges