| Ranking | State or District | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | Massachusetts | Harvard University | 98%
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| 4 | Connecticut | Yale University | 94%
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| 9 | Pennsylvania | University of Pennsylvania | 92%
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| 8 | Rhode Islands | Brown University | 90%
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| 1 | Massachusetts | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 90%
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| 3 | California | Stanford University | 90%
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| 5 | New Jersey | Princeton University | 89%
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| 49 | California | University of California, Berkeley | 88%
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| 23 | California | University of California, Los Angeles | 86%
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| 6 | North Carolina | Duke University | 85%
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| 11 | New York | Columbia University | 83%
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| 25 | Michigan | University of Michigan | 79%
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| 47 | North Carolina | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill | 78%
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| 10 | New Hampshire | Dartmouth College | 77%
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| 42 | New York | New York University | 76%
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| 15 | Illinois | University of Chicago | 75%
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| 17 | New York | Cornell University | 74%
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| 13 | Tennessee | Vanderbilt University | 72%
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| 14 | Illinois | Northwestern University | 71%
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| 16 | California | University of Southern California | 71%
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| 29 | Virginia | University of Virginia | 71%
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| 7 | Texas | Rice University | 69%
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| 24 | Washington D.C. | Georgetown University | 68%
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| 19 | Indiana | Notre Dame University | 67%
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| 12 | Missouri | Washington University in St. Louis | 65%
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| 30 | Georgia | Georgia Institute of Technology | 63%
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| 48 | Florida | University of Florida | 59%
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| 46 | Massachusetts | Boston College | 57%
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| 20 | California | California Institute of Technology | 57%
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| 22 | Maryland | Johns Hopkins University | 57%
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| 45 | North Carolina | Wake Forest University | 41%
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| 21 | Pennsylvania | Carnegie Mellon University | 38%
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| 35 | Georgia | Emory University | 37%
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| 26 | Massachusetts | Tufts University | 37%
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| 27 | Maine | Bowdoin College | 31%
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| 18 | California | Pomona College | 29%
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| 44 | Massachusetts | Williams College | 24%
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| 33 | California | Harvey Mudd College | 21%
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| 32 | Vermont | Middlebury College | 21%
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| 36 | Pennsylvania | Swarthmore College | 19%
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| 43 | New York | Colgate University | 16%
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| 50 | North Carolina | Davidson College | 16%
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| 41 | Minnesota | Carleton College | 15%
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| 31 | California | Claremont McKenna College | 15%
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| 34 | Pennsylvania | Haverford College | 14%
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| 28 | Virginia | Washington & Lee University | 13%
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| 37 | New York | United States Military Academy at West Point | 12%
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| 38 | New York | Barnard College | 11%
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| 40 | New York | Hamilton College | 10%
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| 39 | Massachusetts | Wellesley College | 4%
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