High School Counselor Rankings National Universities

High School Counselor Rankings Methodology

In spring 2012, we asked guidance counselors from a nationwide sampling of public high schools in the 2012 U.S. News Best High Schools rankings that were gold, silver, or bronze medal winners, as well as from the largest private independent schools nationwide, to tell us which National Universities and National Liberal Arts Colleges they think offer the best undergraduate education to their students. They rated the universities on a scale of 1 to 5 (with 5 being the top score) or marked "don't know" if they were unfamiliar with that particular college. The two most recent years of survey results, from spring 2011 and spring 2012, were averaged to compute the high school counselor reputation score used in this ranking.

Rank	School	High school counselor score (out of 5)
#29	University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC	4.4
#29	University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA	4.4
#33	Boston University Boston, MA	4.3
#33	Brandeis University Waltham, MA	4.3
#33	Tulane University New Orleans, LA	4.3
#33	Wake Forest University Winston-Salem, NC	4.3
#37	Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, OH	4.2
#37	George Washington University Washington, DC	4.2
#37	Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA	4.2
#37	Pepperdine University Malibu, CA	4.2

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Rank

School

High school counselor score (out of 5)

#29

University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill

Chapel Hill, NC

4.4

#29

University of Southern California

Los Angeles, CA

4.4

#33

Boston University

Boston, MA

4.3

#33

Brandeis University

Waltham, MA

4.3

#33

Tulane University

New Orleans, LA

4.3

#33

Wake Forest University

Winston-Salem, NC

4.3

#37

Case Western Reserve University

Cleveland, OH

4.2

#37

George Washington University

Washington, DC

4.2

#37

Georgia Institute of Technology

Atlanta, GA

4.2

#37

Pepperdine University

Malibu, CA

4.2