How would you rank the Ivies?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Maybe a piece of the puzzle is that, if a student is actively looking for intellectual richness, then Princeton has more resources than Swarthmore. OTOH, a helluva a lot of Princeton undergrads aren't looking for an intense intellectual experience. And a very high percentage of Swarthmore students are.

My sense is that you're just trading in stereotypes (i.e, Swarthmore students are moody, tortured intellectuals; Princeton students are happy-go-lucky types who will only break a sweat in private) that have some historical antecedent, but not much to do with either school today. But, then, I may be basing that on the fact that the only kid in my kid's HS class whom I know is going to Swarthmore was recruited to play baseball.

[Anonymous]

Who is trading in stereotypes? How did you get from looking for an intellectually intense experience to tortured and moody? Or from not looking for an intense intellectual experience to happy-go-lucky/won't break a sweat?

[Anonymous]

PP here that would've picked Yale out of any other ivy.

That said, the perception of Yale is falling as kids get more tech-oriented and pre-professional.

It is embarrassing that Yale had to co-opt Harvard CS50 (intro to CS).

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-03-26/yale-will-bolster-computer-science-faculty-after-student-outcry

The rise of pre-professionalism is a big part of what made Penn super popular as well.