這是美國最新的四星和五星大學分級表，在每級中按字母順序列出。
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五星(入學競爭最為激烈)
Amherst College Mass
Bates College Maine
Boston College Mass.
Bowdoin College Maine
Brown University RI
Bryn Mawr College PA
California Institute of Technology CA
Claremont McKenna College CA
College of William and Mary VA
Columbia College NY
Columbia University NY
Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art NY
Cornell College Iowa
Cornell University NY
Dartmouth College NH
Davidson College NC
Duke University NC
Georgetown University DC
Harvard University Mass.
Harvey Mudd College CA
Haverford College PA
The Johns Hopkins University MD
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Mass.
Middlebury College VT
Northwestern University IL
Pomona College CA
Princeton University NJ
Rice University TX
Stanford University CA
Swarthmore College PA
Tufts University Mass.
United States Air Force Academy CO
United States Military Academy NY
United States Naval Academy MD
University of Chicago IL
University of Notre Dame IN
University of Pennsylvania
University of Virginia
Wake Forest University NC
Washington ＆ Lee University VA
Wellesley College Mass.
Wesleyan University CT
Williams College Mass.
Yale University CT
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四星(入學競爭非常激烈)
此類院校招收各科平均成績在B或B＋的學生，在班級中排名前20- 35名的高中生也有望進入。新生SAT I測試的分數(shù)一般要達到575- 625分，ACT為27- 28。此類院校只接受1／3-1／2的申請者。
對于某些熱門專業(yè)，你需要有A＋成績方可從候選名單中脫穎而出。此類院校對新生的SAT I測試要求要達到615分或更高，ACT也要28分以上。招生率低于1／4。
Bard College NY
Boston University Mass.
Brandeis University Mass.
Brigham Young University Utah
Bucknell University PA
Carleton College Minn.
＋ Carnegie Mellon University PA
Case Western Reserve University Ohio
Colby College Maine
Colgate University NY
College of the Holy Cross Mass.
Colorado College
＋ Colorado School of Mines
Drew University NJ
Emory University GA
Franklin and Marshall College PA
George Washington University DC
＋ Georgia Institute of Technology
Gettysburg College PA
GMI Engineering ＆ Management Institute MI
＋ Grinnell College Iowa
Grove City College PA
Hamilton College NY
James Madison University VA
Kalamazoo College MI
＋ Kenyon College Ohio
Lafayette College PA
＋ Lawrence University Minn.
Lehigh University PA
Macalester College Minn.
Mary Washington College VA
＋ Oberlin College Ohio
Occidental College CA
Pennsylvania State University
Polytechnic University of New York
＋ Reed College OR
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute NY
Rhodes College Tenn.
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology IN
Rutgers University NJ
Rutgers University-Camden NJ
＋ Rutgers University-Newark NJ
St. Olaf College Minn.
Sarah Lawrence College NY
Skidmore College NY
Smith College Mass.
Southwestern University TX
＋ State University of New York College at Binghamton
State University of New York College at Geneseo
Syracuse University NY
Trenton State College NJ
Trinity College Conn.
Trinity University TX
Tulane University LA
Union College NY
＋ University of California Berkeley
University of California Los Angeles
University of Florida
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
＋ University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
University of Michigan-Dearborn
University of Minnesota
University of Missouri-Columbia
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
University of Puget Sound WA
University of Richmond VA
University of Rochester NY
University of the South Tenn.
University of Wisconsin-Madison
＋ Vanderbilt University Tenn.
Vassar College NY
Villanova University PA
Washington University in St. Louis MO
Wheaton College IL
Whitman College WA
Worcester Polytechnic Institute MA 1
注：
SAT：美國沒有統(tǒng)一的高考，SAT是由“美國教育考試服務社” (Educational Testing Service)主持的學術水平測驗考試(Scholastic Assessment Test SAT)，被多數(shù)大學用做比較不同地區(qū)、不同高中、不同評分制度的標準。
SAT分為兩部分，一是普通部分，包括數(shù)學和英語，被稱為SATⅠ；其他是單科考試，有數(shù)學、物理、化學、生物、外語(包括漢語、日語、德語、法語、西班牙語)等，被統(tǒng)稱為SATⅡ。
ACT：美國高等學校測驗，包括英語、數(shù)學、自然科學和社會研究4個部分，主要考查學生的基本知識和基本技能。此項測驗與學能測驗頗為相似，且在許多情況下可互相取代，每年亦舉行6次左右，考生可選擇時間應試。
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