The prestigious schools listed here admit only top-of-the-line students, the cream of the academic crop. Here's what to expect if you're smart enough--and have enough tuition money--to gain entrance to their hallowed halls:

Princeton offers "the best undergraduate education in the country." Other prestigious institutions feature famous medical, law, and/or business schools, but not Princeton; there, the focus is on the college student.

Renowned Harvard is home to a distinguished faculty and phenomenal, world-class research facilities. Here you'll find "the most incredibly talented group of people I've ever met," according to one student.

You must be pretty incredible to compete with the "workaholics" and the "smartest, weirdest people in the world" who go to this New York City school.

Better known as West Point, the United States Military Academy provides one of the premier educations in the arts and sciences available in nation. Training ranges from the liberal arts to winter warfare in Alaska.

The United States Naval Academy in Annapolis provides a stellar and rigorous education in the arts and sciences and, of course, training in military and naval service.

The United States Air Force Academy offers a range of educational options, from the liberal arts to engineering and technology, and students here get to become fighter pilots.

What can you say about "uniformly excellent" Yale University, "truly one of America's great universities?" Yale has no core curriculum, instead requiring students to complete a broad range of general requirements.

"Some of the brightest minds in the world" are at Stanford University, an Ivy-caliber university with a California atmosphere. The engineering, physical sciences, and liberal arts programs are all nationally renowned.

Without the extensive, western civilization-focused core curriculum at this vaunted Ivy League bastion, graduating "would be a breeze." "Accomplished" scholars with "mind-boggling brainpower" are everywhere.

"Concerned" and "friendly" professors highlight the occasionally "stressful" experience at this truly outstanding, small liberal arts college.

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