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.
| Save | Rank | School | High school counselor score (out of 5) |
|---|---|---|---|
| #1 |
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY |
4.9 | |
| #1 |
Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH |
4.9 | |
| #1 |
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA |
4.9 | |
| #1 |
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD |
4.9 | |
| #1 |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA |
4.9 | |
| #1 |
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ |
4.9 | |
| #1 |
Stanford University
Stanford, CA |
4.9 | |
| #1 |
Yale University
New Haven, CT |
4.9 | |
| #9 |
Brown University
Providence, RI |
4.8 | |
| #9 |
Columbia University
New York, NY |
4.8 |
