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Comparing NC State to Research Peer Institutions

Percentage of 2007 Entering Freshman in Top 10% of High School Class

Institution
Freshmen in top 10% of HS Class
California Institute of Technology
99%
University of California-Berkeley
99%
University of California-San Diego
99%
University of California-Los Angeles
97%
Yale University
97%
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
97%
University of California-Irvine
96%
University of California-Santa Barbara
96%
Princeton University
96%
University of Pennsylvania
96%
Univ  of California – Davis
95%
Harvard University
95%
Washington University In St Louis
95%
Columbia University In The City of New York
94%
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
92%
Brown University
92%
Stanford University
91%
Duke University
90%
Emory University
88%
Cornell Univ
87%
University of Virginia-Main Campus
87%
University of Southern California
86%
University of Washington-Seattle Campus
86%
Northwestern University
85%
University of Chicago
83%
Rice University
83%
Johns Hopkins University
82%
Vanderbilt University
80%
Brandeis University
79%
University of Florida
76%
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
76%
Carnegie Mellon University
73%
University of Rochester
72%
Univ. of Maryland
71%
The University of Texas at Austin
69%
Georgia  Tech
66%
New York University
66%
Case Western Reserve University
66%
Univ. of Wisconsin – Madison 
60%
Univ of Illinois – Urbana 
55%
Univ. of Georgia
53%
Ohio State 
52%
Tulane University of Louisiana
50%
University of Pittsburgh-Main Campus
48%
Penn State Univ.
45%
Texas A&M Univ
45%
Univ of Minnesota
44%
Syracuse University
42%
Virginia Tech
40%
Rutgers University-New Brunswick
40%
Suny at Stony Brook
36%
NC State Univ.
34%
University of Arizona
34%
Purdue Univ. - Main Campus
31%
Indiana University-Bloomington
31%
Michigan State 
29%
University of Nebraska at Lincoln
27%
Iowa State Univ  
26%
University of Missouri-Columbia
26%
University of Colorado at Boulder
25%
Suny at Buffalo
24%
University of Iowa
23%
University of Oregon
23%

Source: US News America's Best Colleges, August 2008

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