High school students and their parents agree on at least one thing – their dream college. Stanford ranked No. 1 in The Princeton Review’s 2010 “College Hopes & Worries Survey.” All but one of the questions in the 15-question survey were multiple choice. In the one in which respondents were asked to fill in the blank, both college applicants and the parents of applicants indicated that if all other considerations such as cost were set aside, and if acceptance was a given, the school most students and parents consider the “dream college” would be Stanford. Here are the results:
The schools most named by students as their “Dream Colleges” were:
1. Stanford University
2. Harvard College
3. New York University
4. Princeton University
5. Brown University
6. Yale University
7. University of California-Los Angeles
8. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
9. University of Southern California
10. Cornell University
The schools most named by parents as their “Dream Colleges” were:
1. Stanford University
2. Princeton University
3. Harvard College
4. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
5. Yale University
6. University of California-Los Angeles
7. University of Notre Dame
8. Brown University
9. University of Southern California
10. New York University
The Princeton Review has conducted its “College Hopes & Worries Survey” since 2003. Findings this year are based on 12,174 surveys completed on paper or online by 9,132 college applicants and 3,042 parents of applicants from all 50 states and Washington, D.C. The survey ran in the Princeton Review book Best 371 Colleges (Random House, July 2009) and on The Princeton Review website from late January to mid-March.
