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Worst Military Academy: Virginia Military Institute

VMI excluded women from its ranks until the U.S. Supreme Court forced the academy to admit female cadets in 1996. The student barracks, which lack private bathrooms, are arranged like a prison cell block, with tiers of freshmen on top and seniors on the bottom.

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Illustrious Alumni: James Hickey (right), leader of the 4th Infantry Division's 1st Brigade, the team that caught Saddam Hussein in Tikrit.

Notable Courses: Arabic Poetry. So you can blow up them Iraqis in iambic pentameter.

Raw Data: First-year students are subjected to the "ratline," a seven-month hazing ritual in which newbies, or rats, are forced to undergo 15-mile marches, screaming abuse, and long crawls through the mud. That and four years of cheap cots (no beds!) may help explain the school's 48 percent graduation rate.

School Pride: "I consider my experience there more an exercise in self-abuse than anything else," adds a Students Reviewer.

Fun Fact: Freshmen are forbidden to leave campus, except for Sundays and occasional holidays.

Tuition: $10,048 in-state ($25,892 out-of-state) plus room and board.

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