2018 U.S. News And World Report College Rankings

Liberal Arts

Oberlin (the alma mater of my wife and I) and Macalaster (which my brother and his wife graduated from) are tied for #26 in U.S. News and World Report's 2018 Liberal Arts College rankings. Also tied for #26 are Kenyon College, Scripps College (in Claremont, CA), the U.S. Air Force Academy (which is absurd to treat as a liberal arts college), and Barnard College.

Colby College, which my daughter attends, is ranked #12, tied with the U.S. Military Academy at West Point (which is not a liberal arts college in any legitimate sense of the word), Vassar, Smith (my wife's sister's alma mater), Harvey Mudd (in Claremont, CA) and Colgate.

Colorado College is #23 on the liberal arts college list tied with Bates College (which is a Colby rival). The U.S. Naval Academy is #21.

In the top 11 are:

#1 Williams
#2 Amherst
#3 (tie) Bowdoin (another Colby rival)
#3 (tie) Swarthmore
#3 (tie) Wellesley
#6 (tie) Middlebury (where my daughter was also accepted)
#6 (tie) Pomona in Claremont, CA (I was accepted there and wanted to attend by the mom vetoed it)
#8 (tie) Carleton
#8 (tie) Claremont McKenna in Claremont, CA
#10 (tie) Davidson College in NC
#10 (tie) Washington and Lee U. in VA

Pitzer in Claremont CA was #33.

National Universities

The usual Ivy League suspects here plus University of Chicago (tied for #3), M.I.T. (tied for #5), Stanford (tied for #5), Duke (#9), California Institute of Technology (#10), John Hopkins (tied for #11), Northwestern (tied for #11), Rice University (tied for #14), and Vanderbilt University (tied for #14).

In terms of selectivity, Williams and Amherst are comparable to the least selective Ivy League schools.

University of Michigan-Ann Arbor(#28), Tufts (#29), and NYU (#30) on the National Universities list are pretty comparable to Kenyon (#26), Oberlin (#26), Colby (#12), Bates (#23), Macalaster (#26), Wesleyan, Carleton(#8) and Middlebury (#6) on the Liberal Arts College List.

The Colorado School of Mines is #75. The University of Denver is #87. CU-Boulder is #90.

Law Schools

My alma mater, University of Michigan Law is tied for #8 with the University of Virginia.

At the top are:

Yale #1
Stanford #2
Harvard #3
University of Chicago #4
Columbia #5
NYU #6 (where I was also admitted)
University of Pennsylvania #7