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The Drool Schools/Tier One: The Most-Selective Colleges

In order to get into these schools, you need to be Albert Einstein. Seriously. Either that or know someone who knew Albert Einstein. Either way, they make it hard to get in.

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• Amherst College (Amherst, MA)
• Brown University (Providence, RI)
• California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, CA)
• Columbia University (New York, NY)
• Cornell University (Ithaca, NY)
• Curtis Institute of Music (Philadelphia, PA)
• Dartmouth College (Hanover, NH)
• Duke University (Durham, NC)
• Emory University (Atlanta, GA)
• Georgetown University (Washington, DC)
• Harvard University (Cambridge, MA)
• Juilliard School (New York, NY)
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA)
• Northwestern University (Evanston, IL)
• Pomona College (Claremont, CA)
• Princeton University (Princeton, NJ)
• Rice University (Houston, TX)
• Stanford University (Stanford, CA)
• Swarthmore College (Swarthmore, PA)
• The Cooper Union (New York, NY)
• Tufts University (Medford, MA)
• University of California — Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA)
• University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley, CA)
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, NC)
• University of Notre Dame (Notre Dame, IN)
• University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA)
• University of Virginia (Charlottesville, VA)
• Washington University in St. Louis (St. Louis, MO)
• Wesleyan University (Middletown, CT)
• Williams College (Williamstown, MA)
• Yale University (New Haven, CT)