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2011's Most Stressful Colleges

As college acceptance gets tougher, more applicants are put on waitlists or offered deferred admissions, which only prolongs the waiting game. And only a lucky few ever get in, writes Kristina Dell.

#1, Columbia University

#2, Stanford University

#3, Harvard University

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#4, University of Pennsylvania

#5, Washington University in St. Louis

#6, University of Chicago

#7, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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#8, Vanderbilt University

#9, Northwestern University

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#10, Yale University

#11, Johns Hopkins University

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#12, Princeton University

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#13, Dartmouth College

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#14, Duke University

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#15, California Institute of Technology

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#16, Cornell University

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#17, Brown University

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#18, University of Southern California

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#19, Carnegie Mellon University

#20, Tufts University

#21, Georgetown University

#22, University of California—Berkeley

#23, New York University

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#24, Rice University

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#25, University of Notre Dame

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#26, Boston College

#27, Emory University

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#28, Wake Forest University

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#29, University of California—Los Angeles

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#30, University of Rochester

#31, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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#32, Brandeis University

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#33, University of Michigan—Ann Arbor

#34, Lehigh University

#35, University of California—San Diego

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#36, University of Virginia

#37, Case Western Reserve University

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#38, University of California—Santa Barbara

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#39, University of California—Davis

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#40, Georgia Institute of Technology

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#41, University of Miami

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#42, College of William and Mary

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#43, University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill

#44, University of Illinois—Urbana-Champaign

#45, University of Texas—Austin

#46, University of California—Irvine

#47, Pennsylvania State University—University Park

#48, University of Washington

#49, University of Wisconsin—Madison

#50, Yeshiva University

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