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Easy Brags for the Prestigious-Conscious

Mount Olympus

Everyone, and I mean EVERYONE, has heard about them.

# ▲ University Location Degrees Accept SAT Male/Female Intl Earnings ROI Employ
1 Harvard
Cambridge, MA
Cambridge, MA 2,158 4% 48% / 52% 14% $116,868 98 92% —
2 Yale
New Haven, CT
New Haven, CT 1,860 3% 46% / 54% 11% $115,036 97 94% —
3 Princeton
Princeton, NJ
Princeton, NJ 1,337 4% 50% / 50% 11% $107,946 96 95% —
4 Stanford
Palo Alto, CA
Palo Alto, CA 2,153 4% 48% / 52% 9% $122,623 99 93% —

Ivies, But

# ▲ University Location Degrees Accept SAT Male/Female Intl Earnings ROI Employ
1 Brown
Providence, RI
Providence, RI 1,904 6% 50% / 50% 11% $113,220 97 92% —
2 Columbia
New York, NY
New York, NY 2,496 4% 50% / 50% 20% $107,738 95 90% —
3 Cornell
Ithaca, NY
Ithaca, NY 4,187 8% 45% / 55% 10% $109,802 96 94% —
4 Dartmouth
Hanover, NH
Hanover, NH 1,357 6% 50% / 50% 14% $105,723 94 96% —
5 U. of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA
Philadelphia, PA 2,917 5% 45% / 55% 13% $147,105 100 95% —

Nerd Cred

We build the future.

# ▲ University Location Degrees Accept SAT Male/Female Intl Earnings ROI Employ
1 MIT
Cambridge, MA
Cambridge, MA 1,158 5% 51% / 49% 10% $158,428 100 94% —
2 Caltech
Pasadena, CA
Pasadena, CA 250 4% 55% / 45% 10% $133,624 99 100% —
3 Carnegie Mellon
Pittsburgh, PA
Pittsburgh, PA 1,893 11% 49% / 51% 19% $147,257 100 96% —
4 Georgia Tech
Atlanta, GA
Atlanta, GA 4,872 13% 60% / 40% 10% $114,357 99 95% —
5 U. of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA
Berkeley, CA 10,346 11% 46% / 54% 15% $99,940 96 93% —

Is Everyone an Ivy+ Now?

# ▲ University Location Degrees Accept SAT Male/Female Intl Earnings ROI Employ
1 Johns Hopkins
Baltimore, MD
Baltimore, MD 1,393 6% 43% / 57% 15% $94,049 88 91% —
2 U. of Chicago
Chicago, IL
Chicago, IL 2,085 5% 52% / 48% 15% $121,990 98 94% —
3 Northwestern
Evanston, IL
Evanston, IL 2,431 7% 44% / 56% 10% $92,655 86 96% —
4 U. of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN
Notre Dame, IN 2,198 9% 50% / 50% 6% $104,163 93 95% —
5 Washington University in St Louis
Saint Louis, MO
Saint Louis, MO 2,170 12% 48% / 52% 8% $101,892 91 99% —

Moving to a Warmer Climate

Ivies of the South

# ▲ University Location Degrees Accept SAT Male/Female Intl Earnings ROI Employ
1 Duke
Durham, NC
Durham, NC 2,258 5% 43% / 57% 19% $115,439 97 95% —
2 Emory
Atlanta, GA
Atlanta, GA 2,326 10% 41% / 59% 16% $88,907 83 92% —
3 Rice
Houston, TX
Houston, TX 1,352 8% 49% / 51% 12% $109,149 96 94% —
4 Tulane
New Orleans, LA
New Orleans, LA 2,311 14% 39% / 61% 5% $82,289 72 95% —
5 Vanderbilt
Nashville, TN
Nashville, TN 1,830 5% 49% / 51% 10% $100,153 91 95% —

Big City, World Famous

Location, Location, Location!

# ▲ University Location Degrees Accept SAT Male/Female Intl Earnings ROI Employ
1 UCLA
Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles, CA 9,759 9% 39% / 61% 9% $72,501 73 91% —
2 U. of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles, CA 5,846 11% 49% / 51% 13% $83,729 78 93% —
3 Georgetown
Washington, DC
Washington, DC 1,868 14% 42% / 58% 14% $95,834 89 93% —
4 New York University
New York, NY
New York, NY 7,603 9% 39% / 61% 25% $86,970 84 93% —

I Love a Man in Uniform

Military Elite

# ▲ University Location Degrees Accept SAT Male/Female Intl Earnings ROI Employ
1 United States Air Force Academy
Usaf Academy, CO
Usaf Academy, CO 919 12% 70% / 30% 2% $89,269 — — —
2 United States Military Academy
West Point, NY
West Point, NY 1,041 12% 75% / 25% 1% $81,388 — — —
3 United States Naval Academy
Annapolis, MD
Annapolis, MD 1,064 9% 71% / 29% 1% $84,655 — — —