Whether you, your child or someone you know is looking to get into college within the coming years, it's always interesting to know which schools are considered the most prestigious.

Niche.com just released a list ranking the college or university in each state that is the hardest to get into. The site looked through a database of 2,245 public and private, traditional four-year college and universities across the United States and weighed their acceptance rate and SAT/ACT scores together to come up with a score.

The top ten hardest schools to get into in the U.S., according to Niche: Harvard University, Yale University, Princeton University, Columbia University, California Institute of Technology, Stanford University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Chicago, Dartmouth College and Vanderbilt University.

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