Stanford is the No. 1 “dream school” for students, according to a Princeton Review survey released on Thursday. The University took second place among parents, trailing Harvard.

Students ranked Harvard, New York University and Princeton behind Stanford. Princeton ranked behind Stanford among parents, followed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

In the same survey, 69 percent of high school respondents reported stress levels of “high” or “very high,” an increase of 13 percent since 2003. Moreover, 72 percent of respondents reported that the economy affected their college choices, and 86 percent said that financial aid is “very necessary.”

This year, 8,219 students and 3,966 parents participated in the survey, which the Princeton Review has conducted annually since 2003.

–Joshua Falk