Who are the Top 30 U.S. Universities
Princeton University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Harvard University
Stanford University
Yale University
University of Pennsylvania
California Institute of Technology
Duke University
Brown University
The Johns Hopkins University
Northwestern University
Columbia University
Cornell University
University of Chicago
University of California at Berkeley (Berkeley)
University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)
Rice University
Dartmouth College
Vanderbilt University
The University of Notre Dame
University of Michigan
Georgetown University
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Carnegie Mellon University
Emory University
University of Virginia
Washington University in St. Louis
University of California at Davis
University of California at San Diego
University of Florida
University of Southern California
Why are they so difficult to be admitted to?
There are lots of reasons. Below average-to-average students do not normally apply to Top 30 Universities. They understand that it is difficult for them to be accepted. And, even if accepted, once they enrolled it would be hard for them to handle the rigors of academic life.
Therefore, normally very good students apply to these universities. And good students take the hardest courses, get the best grades, do well on entrance exams like the SAT and TOEFL, and excel at their extracurricular activities. All of them.
To successfully apply to these universities takes more than hard work. It takes a plan, a strategy. And most important, it requires a thorough understanding of how these universities work, and what they look for in today's young people.