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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Of the iviest, the "easiest" to get into are Cornell and Penn, which have recently tend to have acceptance around 12 or 13%.  Still not easy to get into, but comparatively[i] easier[/i].  I imagine part of it is the relatively large size of these schools.  Penn is a little harder than Cornell.

The next tier would be Brown, Columbia, and Dartmouth.  These tend to hover around 10%.  I think these are all comparatively hard to get into, although in recent years Columbia has been a little harder, possibly because it's cool to live in New York (the past few years it has been ~7%).  I don't get all this Brown bashing...it has an open curriculum, so I think it attracts more "artsy" types than the other schools (although there is still plenty of prep...just way less than Dartmouth), but it is still really difficult to get into.

The hardest ivies to get into are obviously Harvard, Yale, and Princeton which have acceptance rates that tend to hover around 5%.

Duke isn't an ivy, although it is a very good, very competitive school.  It also is pretty preppy.[/quote]

Actually Columbia's admit rate is lower than Princeton now.

And according to USNWR Columbia has the 8th lowest admit rate of all colleges in the country.  So not what I would call easy to get into!  I'm sure they all play some games - I know my DS, who would be a high reach for Columbia, has been bombarded with email and mail from them so they are obviously trying to gin up applications to reject.  In fact he's gotten letters/brochures/books from all the Ivies except Princeton.  [/quote]

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