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[quote=Anonymous]If money is of concern and it's significantly cheaper to go to your *in-state* top public college (UVA, Michigan, etc), go in-state.

If money is not of concern, go Ivy.

The "best public colleges" and the "worst Ivy leagues" are all excellent schools and are mostly different enough from each other that it's comparing apples to oranges (Brown is very different from Cornell or Dartmouth or Penn; Penn and Cornell are larger schools closer to the big state universities in size; Brown and Dartmouth are dominated by their undergraduate schools and have small professional and graduate programs; the Ivies are known for strong undergraduate experiences while a school like Cal may have amazing graduate schools but their undergraduate programs don't benefit from the prestige of the graduate divisions due to sheer size and limited resources; Penn and Cornell both have stronger pre-professional vibes while Brown and Dartmouth have stronger liberal arts vibes; Dartmouth is outdoorsy while Penn is urban; the big public flagship universities have a dimension to the collegiate experience that the Ivies don't even begin to approach; Cal is quite different from UVA and Michigan....)

In other words, all are excellent schools but for different reasons and will appeal to different types of bright students. Trying to rank these schools, on a undergraduate level, is almost pointless. [/quote]

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