| TOP FIFTEEN COMPETING SCHOOLS, ENTERING FRESHMEN | ||||||||||
| FALL 1998 TO 2002 | ||||||||||
| TOP FIFTEEN RANKED BY CROSS APPLICANTS | ||||||||||
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Rank Each Year |
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| School | 2002 | 2001 | 2000 | 1999 | 1998 | |||||
| Cornell | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||||
| MIT | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | |||||
| U. of Pennsylvania | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | |||||
| U. of Michigan - Ann Arbor | 4 | 7 | 4 | 17 | 11 | |||||
| Princeton | 5 | 11 | 10 | 6 | 10 | |||||
| Harvard | 6 | 9 | 9 | 4 | 13 | |||||
| Stanford | 7 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 4 | |||||
| Columbia | 8 | 8 | 13 | 9 | 7 | |||||
| Johns Hopkins | 9 | 4 | 8 | 11 | 6 | |||||
| Boston University | 10 | 17 | 32 | 18 | 8 | |||||
| Penn State | 11 | 10 | 14 | 12 | 15 | |||||
| Tufts Univ. / Jackson College | 12 | 20 | 17 | 14 | 19 | |||||
| Washington U. (St. Louis) | 13 | 6 | 5 | 10 | 18 | |||||
| Yale | 14 | 19 | 18 | -- | -- | |||||
| U. of CA, Berkeley | 15 | 12 | 12 | 13 | 14 | |||||
| TOP FIFTEEN CROSS-APPLICANTS RANKED BY ADMITTANCE OVERLAP PERCENTAGE | ||||||||||
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Rank Each Year |
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| School | 2002 | 2001 | 2000 | 1999 | 1998 | |||||
| Penn State | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Boston University | 2 | -- | -- | -- | 3 | |||||
| Washington U. (St. Louis) | 3 | 5 | 3 | 3 | -- | |||||
| U. Michigan - Ann Arbor | 4 | 2 | 2 | --- | 5 | |||||
| Johns Hopkins | 5 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 4 | |||||
| Tufts Univ. / Jackson College | 6 | -- | -- | 5 | -- | |||||
| Cornell | 7 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 6 | |||||
| U. of CA, Berkeley | 8 | 8 | 8 | 9 | 8 | |||||
| Columbia | 9 | 11 | 9 | 12 | 10 | |||||
| U. of Pennsylvania | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 9 | |||||
| MIT | 11 | 12 | 12 | 11 | 11 | |||||
| Yale | 12 | -- | -- | -- | -- | |||||
| Stanford | 13 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 14 | |||||
| Princeton | 14 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 15 | |||||
| Harvard | 15 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 13 | |||||
| Note: Overlap refers to the number of applicants or admittees who applied or were admitted to | ||||||||||
| Carnegie Mellon and one of the other schools listed. | ||||||||||