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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For historical reasons, Harvard, Yale, and Princeton remain preeminent. However, since none take students in Early Decision, it's a smaller pool of top students that go there. Many of the best students are committed elsewhere and don't even apply to HYP.

As for the rest of the Ivies, there are at least a dozen schools that are often better choices than Penn, Brown, Columbia, Cornell, and Dartmouth. It depends on the kid and what they want to study and do. This is especially prominent in STEM, which is where a lot of the smart kids are these days. No one chooses Yale or Harvard or Brown or Dartmouth or Columbia for engineering when they have Stanford, MIT, Rice, Georgia Tech, Berkeley, CalTech and so on.[/quote]

The pre-eminence of HYP is not merely historical.

Harvard provides access to the largest intellectual community in the country.  Princeton offers the best undergraduate education of any university in the country. Yale is pre-eminent in humanities and combines the prestige of an Ivy with the relaxed attitude one might find at a SLAC.

And many students do indeed turn down opportunities to study engineering at schools with strong engineering programs to attend Harvard, Yale, or a “lesser Ivy” where they can be part of a distinguished university with strengths in multiple disciplines. [/quote]

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