Survey: Top College Choice

Every year I ask my juniors the hypothetical question: If you were given a full-ride, four-year scholarship to use at any university, where would it be and what would you study?

Here are the results of the survey in order of popularity. The number listed represents the number of students who listed the college as their first choice:

6 Stanford University (Paolo Alto CA)
5 Harvard University (Cambridge MA)
4 University of Notre Dame (South Bend IN)
4 University of Dayton (Dayton OH)
3 The Ohio State University (Columbus OH)
2 University of Oregon (Eugene OR)
2 U.S. Air Force Academy (Colorado Springs CO)
2 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge MA)
1 Columbia University (New York NY)
1 Dartmouth College (Hanover NH)
1 Duke University (Durham NC)
1 University of Florida (Gainesville FL)
1 Northwestern University (Evanston IL)
1 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy NY)
1 UCLA (Los Angeles CA)
1 College of Charleston (Charleston SC)
1 Case-Western Reserve (Cleveland OH)
1 University of Northwestern Ohio (Lima OH)
1 DePauw University (Greencastle IN)
1 Maryland Institute College of Art (Baltimore MD)
1 Texas A&M
1 Xavier University (Cincinnati OH)
1 Miami University (Oxford OH)