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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I know Northwestern is ranked slightly higher and Chicago suburb is probably more desirable than Ithaca, but if it were me, an Ivy League degree is an Ivy League degree.  US news has Northwestern at 10 and Cornell at 17.  WSJ has Cornell at 11 and Northwestern at 9.  Forbes has Northwestern 11 and Cornell 16.

Is the slight uptick worth it?  Where will your kid be?  East Coast?  I would do Cornell. [/quote]

Northwestern is one of the small handful of schools where the “Ivy League degree is an Ivy League degree” argument doesn’t work. I agree that nitpicking about rankings is useless (although I haven’t really seen that here in this thread), I just don’t see how a school simply just being in the Ivy League has any material benefit. In your own words, is the slight uptick (of being able to say you went to an Ivy League) worth it?[/quote]

DP. My observation is that Cornell's alumni network and name, particularly in certain fields, carries more weight deep into a career than Northwestern's does. I'm sure Northwestern's network is very strong in the Midwest and obviously the school is very well respected elsewhere. But Cornell's network is more deeply in entrenched on the East Coast. There are two major advantages to going to a brand name school like this, from a career perspective -- one is the degree to which that brand name gets you in the door. I think the schools are roughly equal in that respect, with some variation depending on industry. But the other is the degree to which the school offers pipelines to certain industries and employers. I think that's more true with Cornell than Northwestern, and generally more true for Ivy League schools than others, at least when looking at the major East Coast markets (NY, DC, Boston, Philly).[/quote]

I really fail to see a case where this might be true. Certainly not my experience as a passive observer of both schools and seeing how grads fare.[/quote]

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