After rigorous data collection, we determined that for the over 2,000 colleges we examined throughout the United States, the following colleges compose the top ten, with the overall score shown beside each:
| Rank | Institution | Score |
| 1 | Harvard University | 100 |
| 2 | Princeton University | 37.5 |
| 3 | Yale University | 16.2 |
| 4 | Columbia University | 8.7 |
| 5 | University of Pennsylvania | 8.5 |
| 6 | Dartmouth College | 7.9 |
| 7 | Brown University | 6.2 |
| 8 | Cornell University | 5.5 |
| 9 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 5.0 |
| 10 | California Institute of Technology | 4.9 |
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