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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Northwestern is ranked higher than several Ivies - Dartmouth, Columbia, Cornell. But push comes to shove, I think most students would choose the Ivy.[/quote]

I understand Columbia over Northwestern but nobody is picking Cornell or Dartmouth over it - only the people desperate to say they go to “an Ivy.”[/quote]

Those who prefer to be in NYC, yes to Columbia. But Northwestern is the clear choice vs. Brown, Dartmouth and  Cornell. [/quote]

Yes, maybe to those of you writing from your house in Loudoun County.  But try to realize that there is an entire class of people out there that don't make admissions decisions based on the latest iteration of US News.

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I live in Manhattan, sent both my kids to “elite” prep schools, and would pick Chicago & Northwestern over Cornell, Dartmouth, and Chicago over Brown. This isn’t because of whatever list USNWR has created, and it’s weird you assume people from the suburbs default to USNWR while people in cities think Ivies reign supreme. Many of my kids’ friends picked USNWR T10s over Ivies; the Ivy label of the so-called “lower Ivies” doesn’t hold up against those schools in a head-to-head.[/quote]

This is such a stupid comment.  Cornell runs circles around Chicago and NW (and other Ivies) in engineering, computer science, architecture, and other majors (not to mention the many Cornell majors that arent even available at these other schools).[/quote]

Many posters look down on Cornell contract colleges.

CALS: Ranked #1 in the nation for agricultural sciences.
ILR: Frequently ranked as the top school for industrial and labor relations.
Human Ecology: Recognized as #1 in its field.
Hotel School: Ranked #1 in the nation.[/quote]

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