Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Harvard
Yale, Stanford
MIT
rest of the Ivies
Duke
Chicago

Nobody really gives a damn about Hopkins, Northwestern, Vandy, etc. at the undergraduate level. Everyone knows status-obsessed families outside of the Ivy Plus schools were rejected from all of them. Not cream of the crop.

+1. Only striver mediocrities obsess over this crap. The elites will always be elite.

The undisputed elites:

Harvard, Stanford
Yale, MIT
Princeton

The rest are pretenders needing ED contracts to boost their yield.

Based on what?

Rice, Caltech, Ga tech, and Harvey Mudd are wayyyy better schools than Princeton, Yale or Harvard for things like engineering. Harvard and Yale are great for getting inflated grades in useless fields that are paths to become a consultant or lawyer who gets paid big bucks to outsource jobs or ruin the country later as a politician, hedge fund manager, corporate lobbyist, or some other sell out who ships jobs overseas.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

#18 in US News. Not even 15...by far the lowest standards of admissions

Oh JFC. Cornell has "by far" the largest # of undergraduates (15K) of the ivies - and thus slots to fill. The next largest undergrad class, at Penn, is 10K students.

Based on my understanding, Cornell is made up of 7 or 8 undergrad colleges and admission decisions are undertaken independently within the respective colleges itself. Candidates apply directly to the college of their choice.
Admission rates range from 3% to 20% depending on college.

Among the Ivies, I can think of only Columbia that is like this. Not sure if Penn is the same.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Harvard
Yale, Stanford
MIT
rest of the Ivies
Duke
Chicago

Nobody really gives a damn about Hopkins, Northwestern, Vandy, etc. at the undergraduate level. Everyone knows status-obsessed families outside of the Ivy Plus schools were rejected from all of them. Not cream of the crop.

+1. Only striver mediocrities obsess over this crap. The elites will always be elite.

The undisputed elites:

Harvard, Stanford
Yale, MIT
Princeton

The rest are pretenders needing ED contracts to boost their yield.

Notre Dame does not have ED. Not sure about the rest of the T20

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They should not use liberal arts for this ranking, it is garbage degrees

Like math (one of the liberal arts)?

Lol! People who post, went to college, and still don't know what liberal arts means!

Anonymous wrote:They should not use liberal arts for this ranking, it is garbage degrees

Like math (one of the liberal arts)?

Anonymous wrote:They should not use liberal arts for this ranking, it is garbage degrees

Looks like you could have spent a bit more time learning grammar.

They should not use liberal arts for this ranking, it is garbage degrees

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Also Cornell shouldn't be lumped in with the rest of the Ivies. This also applies to Dartmouth and Brown to some degree as well

Aaaand your qualification to make this distinction is?

#18 in US News. Not even 15...by far the lowest standards of admissions

Oh JFC. Cornell has "by far" the largest # of undergraduates (15K) of the ivies - and thus slots to fill. The next largest undergrad class, at Penn, is 10K students.

Anonymous wrote:The amount of BS, baloney, and cluelessness on this thread is so entertaining! Thank you all for providing me with numerous laughs!

+1
Muppets played by NSW,

Anonymous wrote:Duke is no better than Hopkins, Vanderbilt, etc.

+1. Duke doesn't belong on that list either...

The amount of BS, baloney, and cluelessness on this thread is so entertaining! Thank you all for providing me with numerous laughs!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Harvard
Yale, Stanford
MIT
rest of the Ivies
Duke
Chicago

Nobody really gives a damn about Hopkins, Northwestern, Vandy, etc. at the undergraduate level. Everyone knows status-obsessed families outside of the Ivy Plus schools were rejected from all of them. Not cream of the crop.

+1. Only striver mediocrities obsess over this crap. The elites will always be elite.

The undisputed elites:

Harvard, Stanford
Yale, MIT
Princeton

The rest are pretenders needing ED contracts to boost their yield.

Agree. May add Caltech and Columbia as borderline

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Also Cornell shouldn't be lumped in with the rest of the Ivies. This also applies to Dartmouth and Brown to some degree as well

Aaaand your qualification to make this distinction is?

#18 in US News. Not even 15...by far the lowest standards of admissions

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Harvard
Yale, Stanford
MIT
rest of the Ivies
Duke
Chicago

Nobody really gives a damn about Hopkins, Northwestern, Vandy, etc. at the undergraduate level. Everyone knows status-obsessed families outside of the Ivy Plus schools were rejected from all of them. Not cream of the crop.

+1. Only striver mediocrities obsess over this crap. The elites will always be elite.

The undisputed elites:

Harvard, Stanford
Yale, MIT
Princeton

The rest are pretenders needing ED contracts to boost their yield.

Anonymous wrote:Also Cornell shouldn't be lumped in with the rest of the Ivies. This also applies to Dartmouth and Brown to some degree as well

Aaaand your qualification to make this distinction is?