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College Applicants' Top 10 Dream Colleges: Princeton Review List

The Top 10 Dream Schools Of College Applicants
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Stanford University is the No. 1 "dream school" among college applicants, according to the Princeton Review's 2011 College Hopes and Worries survey.

The Review asked 8,219 applying seniors and 3,966 parents of applicants to answer a series of questions about their application process and what they hope -- or are afraid -- will happen once they hear back from schools in the coming weeks.

The survey was available online through the Princeton Review's website from late January to early March, and distributed in print via the Best 373 Colleges: 2011 Edition. Among the questions respondents were asked was: "What 'dream college' do you wish you or your child could attend if acceptance or cost weren't issues?"

Below, check out the ten colleges that were most frequently named "dream schools'" by students. Click over to the Princeton Review for more survey results, plus information on their methodology.

Is your dream school on the list? Let us know in the comments section.

College Applicants' Top 10 Dream Colleges
Stanford University(01 of10)
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Harvard University(02 of10)
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New York University (03 of10)
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Princeton University (04 of10)
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology(05 of10)
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Yale University(06 of10)
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University of California, Los Angeles(07 of10)
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University of Pennsylvania(08 of10)
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University of Southern California (09 of10)
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University of California, Berkeley(10 of10)
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