Table of Contents
Sign Up for Updates on College Admissions vii
Introduction: What This Is and Why I Wrote It ix
1 Welcome to Plan B 1
2 Hello, Harvard 9
3 Welcome to Penn 23
4 Ivy in the Apple: Columbia University 33
5 Cornell University: "Any Person … Any Study" 47
6 A Tradition of Excellence: Yale University 55
7 Climbing College Hill: Brown University 69
8 A Dual-Degree Alternative from Dartmouth College 75
9 Ivy on the Thames: Getting into Oxford 85
10 School of Kings: The University of Cambridge 95
11 Grabbing the Brass Rat at MIT 103
12 New Ivy Among the Magnolias: Emory University 113
13 Regional Presence, National Reputation: Washington University in St. Louis 123
14 In the Research Triangle: Duke University 131
15 Engineering Genius: Caltech 145
16 Elite Bargain: Northwestern University 155
17 Public Ivy: The University of Virginia 165
18 Liberal Studies at Georgetown University 175
19 Inland Flagship: University of Wisconsin-Madison 185
20 A Metropolitan Education: New York University 195
21 Engineering Your Entrance into the University of Southern California 207
22 Campus on a Hill: Boston College 215
23 Cutting-Edge Colonial: The College of William & Mary 225
24 Finding Your Future at Georgia Institute of Technology 235
25 "City of Learning": University of California, Berkeley 247
26 Dream Bigger: University of Notre Dame 259
Index 272
