The parchment.com college application website has ranked the favorite college choices among applicants using their website and system. The rankings are based on more than 440,000 acceptances. Here we just pick out the ranked California colleges in the top 200. The previous articles were focused on California universities. This article includes all colleges that students prefer. The top 10 of the nation are listed first.
1 Stanford
2 MIT
3 Harvard
4 Yale
5 Princeton
6 Caltech
7-8 U. Penn
7-8 US Air Force Academy
9 Middlebury College
10 Duke
17 Pomona College
19 UC Berkeley
23 Harvey Mudd College
25 UCLA
28 USC
43 Art Center College of Design
49 Pitzer College
70 UC San Diego
73 Scripps College
75 Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
79 UC Irvine
80 UC Davis
81 Masters College
83 U. Redlands
84 UC Santa Barbara
103 St. Mary’s College of California
108 Claremont McKenna College
124 UC Riverside
137 San Diego State U.
138 Pepperdine
140 tie
UC Santa Cruz
Chapman U.
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145 Occidental College
179 Santa Clara U.
182 Loyola Marymount
