The Happy Colleges

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Allegheny College (Meadville, PA)

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Amherst College (Amherst, MA)
Austin College (Sherman, TX)
Babson College (Babson Park, MA)
Barnard College (New York, NY)
Bates College (Lewiston, ME)
Beloit College (Beloit, WI)
Bentley University (Waltham, MA)
Boston College (Chestnut Hill, MA)
Bowdoin College (Brunswick, ME)
Brandeis University (Waltham, MA)
Brown University (Providence, RI)

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Bryn Mawr College (Bryn Mawr, PA)
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo (San Luis Obispo, CA)
Carleton College (Northfield, MN)
Claremont McKenna College (Claremont, CA)
Clemson University (Clemson, SC)
Colby College (Waterville, ME)
Colgate University (Hamilton, NY)
College of the Holy Cross (Worcester, MA)

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Columbia University (New York, NY)

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Cornell University (Ithaca, NY)
Dartmouth College (Hanover, NH)
Davidson College (Davidson, NC)
DePaul University (Chicago, IL)
Duke University (Durham, NC)

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Furman University (Greenville, SC)
Georgetown University (Washington, DC)
Grinnell College (Grinnell, IA)
Grove City College (Grove City, PA)
Hamilton College (Clinton, NY)
Harvey Mudd College (Claremont, CA)
Heidelberg University (Tiffin, OH)
Hollins University (Roanoke, VA)
Kalamazoo College (Kalamazoo, MI)
Kenyon College (Gambier, OH)
Lawrence University (Appleton, WI)
Lehigh University (Bethlehem, PA)
Lesley University (Cambridge, MA)
Macalester College (St. Paul, MN)
Marquette University (Milwaukee, WI)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA)
McGill University (Montreal, CAN)
Middlebury College (Middlebury, VT)
Montana State University (MT)
Mount Holyoke College (South Hadley, MA)
Muhlenberg College (Allentown, PA)
New York University (New York, NY)

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Northwestern University (Evanston, IL)
Oberlin College (Oberlin, OH)
Ohio University (Athens, OH)

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Pennsylvania State University—University Park (University Park, PA)
Pomona College (Claremont, CA)
Quinnipiac University (Hamden, CT)

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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, NY)
Rhode Island School of Design (Providence, RI)
Rhodes College (Memphis, TN)
Rochester Institute of Technology (Rochester, NY)

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Rose–Hulman Institute of Technology (Terre Haute, IN)
Saint Anselm College (Manchester, NH)
Scripps College (Claremont, CA)
Skidmore College (Saratoga Springs, NY)
Soka University of America (Aliso Viejo, CA)
St. Louis University (St. Louis, MO)

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St. Olaf College (Northfield, MN)
Stanford University (Stanford, CA)
Swarthmore College (Swarthmore, PA)
The College of Wooster (Wooster, OH)
The Cooper Union (New York, NY)
The George Washington University (Washington, DC)

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The Ohio State University (Columbus, OH)

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The University of Texas at Austin (Austin, TX)
The University of Tulsa (Tulsa, OK)
The University of the South (Sewanee, TN)
Transylvania University (Lexington, KY)

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Trinity College (Hartford, CT)
Union College (Schenectady, NY)
University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley, CA)
University of California, San Diego (La Jolla, CA)
University of Chicago (Chicago, IL)

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University of Delaware (Newark, DE)

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University of Michigan—Ann Arbor (Ann Arbor, MI)

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, NC)
University of Notre Dame (Notre Dame, IN)
University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA)
University of Portland (Portland, OR)

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University of Southern California (Los Angeles, CA)
University of Toronto (Toronto, Ontario, CAN)
University of Virginia (Charlottesville, VA)
University of Wisconsin—Madison (Madison, WI)
Ursinus College (Collegeville, PA)
Valparaiso University (Valparaiso, IN)
Vanderbilt University (Nashville, TN)
Vassar College (Poughkeepsie, NY)
Villanova University (Villanova, PA)

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Wake Forest University (Winston Salem, NC)
Washington University in St. Louis (St. Louis, MO)
Washington and Lee University (Lexington, VA)
Wellesley College (Wellesley, MA)
Wesleyan University (Middletown, CT)
Western Washington University (Bellingham, WA)

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Westmont College (Santa Barbara, CA)
Whitman College (Walla Walla, WA)
William & Mary (Williamsburg, VA)
Williams College (Williamstown, MA)
Yale University (New Haven, CT)

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