Is there a difference between Columbia,Penn and Dartmouth,Brown,Cornell ?

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, Cornell is on Georgetown, Emory, WashU level. Brown and Dartmouth are Johns Hopkins, Northwestern level schools.

This is the issue with comparing schools at the undergraduate level.

Cornell far excels over Georgetown, Emory and WashU in engineering. Georgetown is very good for humanities/international relations. Emory and WashU aren't particularly known for anything other than their medical schools, which is very unrelated to undergraduates (versus graduate departments that have direct impact on undergrads through professors).

Not sure what "level" means here, but generally Brown and Dartmouth's association with the Ivies give them more national and international cachet - deserved or not - than Hopkins or Northwestern. For undergraduate humanities education, they tend to be stronger as well.

You are sorely, sorely mistaken if you think Brown and Dartmouth - Dartmouth, for God's sakes - has more "international cachet" than Hopkins or Northwestern.

My child will happily attend Dartmouth or Northwestern. They are BOTH top schools with international reputations. Who the hell cares if your kid goes to one or the other? Maybe one wants Northwestern's theatre program and the other wants Dartmouth's rural location. It's like comparing the best cherry pie to the best apple pie. Some like cherries and some like apples more, but they're both going to be delicious.

True but that reasonable approach does not contribute to the brawling popular on DCUM.

But you see I am a dense SOB and I need a single number that explains it all for me! I am not capable of complexity or nuance and I do not want it! If you rank a college at 4 and another at 6 I know that the one ranked 4 is two more betterer!

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One thing I noticed that was different about those schools is how they are spelled.

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My kid went to Columbia, I went to Penn and I have other family members at Cornell and Dartmouth.

Wow, are there actually families like this, where everyone goes to an Ivy League school? Is it something that’s expected or just a happy coincidence?

I went to Penn, my sister went to Columbia, and my niece went to Princeton. We are normal , not fancy people. We all got financial aid.