Newsweek along with Kaplan’s rankings? W: All right. So let’s take a look at some of the strongest schools academically talking first here.

And usually of course we expect the Harvards, Princetons, Yales, which they’re up there as well,

but this year, kind of a little bit of surprise is, Reed College in Portland, Oregon score highest

marks.

M: Yeah! No. 1. Ur... Best overall...

W: Why is it? You surprised?

M: Actually not surprised. I mean, Reed College is a great school. It’s got great regional reputation,

and growing national reputations, only 1,300 students, but a wonderful liberal arts, liberal arts

school, we went directly to students, they told us that their professors were great, both inside as

well as outside the classroom.

W: Tiny school! About ten students per class? W: All right! Ivy Leagues did very well in other categories as well, like toughest schools to get into

and top in that list, MIT was first, followed then by Yale, Princeton, ur, and Harvard, second,

third, fourth respectively. So any surprises there with them?

M: There are some unusual suspects on that list. We reach directly out to school administrators

through our website , and finding out information on schools specifically,

where they’re looking from the SAT, ACT, GPA coming into a high school, so that’s how we

come up with our list.

W: Students’ happiest with their financial aid packages, Princeton University. So what are they

doing differently? Obviously, it’s generally a very expensive private school. What are they

doing now?

M: W: The overall happiest students, Stanford University.

M: Stanford is a terrific place to go to school. Certainly a super competitive school, but when we

think about quality of life, oh, it’s a beautiful campus, great food, great dorms, great library,

overall quality of life. And great and happy students.

W: All right! Now speaking of beautiful campuses, Pepperdine scored top, Malibu. How can you go

wrong? Right?

about quality of life and overall beauty of campus it certainly came to the top of the list.

W: I mean that’s like a travel destination, right there, right?

M: Yeah!

W: All right! Let’s also talk about best for athletics intercollegiate and intramural, intramural and