University of California, Los Angeles, Athletics
UCLA Named No. 1 Public "Dream School"
April 07, 2010 | Bruin Athletics
April 7, 2010
According to a Princeton Review survey of 9,132 college applicants and 3,042 parents of applicants, UCLA ranks No. 1 among public schools and in the Top Seven overall in the category of "Dream Schools" for both the applicants and the parents.
The Princeton Review, an education services company, has conducted its "College Hopes & Worries Survey" since 2003. Findings this year are based on 12,174 surveys completed on paper or online by students and parents from all 50 states and DC. The 15-question survey ran in The Princeton Review book, "Best 371 Colleges" (Random House, July 2009) and on www.PrincetonReview.com from late January to mid-March. All but one question was multiple-choice.
For the survey's only fill-in-the-blank question, "What 'dream college' do you wish you (your child) could attend if acceptance or cost weren't issues?" respondents wrote in the names of more than 600 institutions from Adrian College to Yale.
The schools most named by students as their "Dream Colleges" were:
1/ Stanford University
2/ Harvard College
3/ New York University
4/ Princeton University
5/ Brown University
6/ Yale University
7/ University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
8/ Massachusetts Institute of Technology
9/ University of Southern California
10/ Cornell University
The schools most named by parents as their "Dream Colleges" were:
1/ Stanford University
2/ Princeton University
3/ Harvard College
4/ Massachusetts Institute of Technology
5/ Yale University
6/ University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
7/ University of Notre Dame
8/ Brown University
9/ University of Southern California
10/ New York University
