# School  #Svys Score 1 Dartmouth College   29 8.6% 2 Brown University   90 8.5% 3 Fordham University   42 8.4% 4 Colgate University   44 8.3% 5 Kalamazoo College   41 8.3% 6 Bryn Mawr College   27 8.3% 7 Mount Holyoke College   30 8.3% 8 Vanderbilt University   45 8.3% 9 Texas A&M University at College Station   67 8.3% 10 University of Notre Dame   34 8.2% 11 University of California -- Santa Barbara   33 8.2% 12 Princeton University   30 8.2% 13 University of Virginia   57 8.2% 14 Yale University   28 8.2% 15 Southwestern Assemblies of God University   106 8.2% 16 Georgetown University   42 8.1% 17 University of Chicago   46 8.1% 18 Cornell University   73 8.1% 19 Purdue University   31 8.1% 20 Michigan State University   56 8.0% 21 University of Texas -- Austin   61 8.0% 22 Brigham Young University   28 8.0% 23 University of Pennsylvania   46 8.0% 24 University of California -- Los Angeles   48 8.0% 25 Washington University in St. Louis   42 8.0% 26 Carnegie Mellon University   38 7.9% 27 Western Michigan University   29 7.9% 28 Stanford University   36 7.9% 29 James Madison University   43 7.9% 30 Clemson University   44 7.9% 31 Tulane University   37 7.9% 32 Northwestern University   56 7.8% 33 Ohio State University Columbus   29 7.8% 34 Bob Jones University   71 7.8% 35 University of Wisconsin -- Madison   55 7.8% 36 Columbia University in the City of New York   32 7.8% 37 College of William and Mary   85 7.8% 38 Tufts University   30 7.7% 39 Baylor University   36 7.7% 40 Villanova University   56 7.7% 41 Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University   27 7.7% 42 University of Miami   59 7.7% 43 Johns Hopkins University   59 7.7% 44 University of Southern California   75 7.7% 45 Florida State University   69 7.7% 46 University of Michigan Ann Arbor   169 7.7% 47 University of Mary Washington   30 7.7% 48 University of Delaware   73 7.6% 49 Wake Forest University   28 7.6% 50 University of California -- Berkeley   80 7.6%

About Rankings that matter to students; these schools are ranked by the factors that students use when determining where to go to school: Creativity Emphasis: 21% Programs Quality: 18% Grounds/Campus: 15% Academic Success: 6% Faculty Accessibility: 6% Social Life: 5% Friendliness: 5% Useful Work: 5% Surrounding City: 5% Safety: 3% Treated like an Individual: 3% Competitiveness: 3% Extra-Curricular: 2% School Funding Use: 2% Maintenance: 1% Filtering and Analysis To find out how the data analysis was performed for the 2005 New Years Day OFFICIAL Rankings, including filtering, invalidity, weighting, distribution matching, and inherent biases, please go to 2005 NYD Rankings Explained.