It really depends on your interest.

For mine:

Y
H
P
W
Co
B
D
P-W
Cn

But in general:

H
P
Y
Co
P
D
B
Cn

I went out with an unhooked H alum once and her intellect was scary and so alluring at the same time. She would've been awesome to make many legacy babies with.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All of the ivies are equally horrible for education. Go to a school like Reed, U Chicago, Swarthmore, Amherst, Williams, Middlebury, Pomona etc. to find people who are actually there to learn and not jumpstart their iBanking career.

How silly. These are good schools, but most of their students would be at an Ivy tomorrow if they could get in.

Completely untrue. My kids have lots of friends who have turned down ivies for all of these schools.

Anonymous wrote:All of the ivies are equally horrible for education. Go to a school like Reed, U Chicago, Swarthmore, Amherst, Williams, Middlebury, Pomona etc. to find people who are actually there to learn and not jumpstart their iBanking career.

How silly. These are good schools, but most of their students would be at an Ivy tomorrow if they could get in.

All of the ivies are equally horrible for education. Go to a school like Reed, U Chicago, Swarthmore, Amherst, Williams, Middlebury, Pomona etc. to find people who are actually there to learn and not jumpstart their iBanking career.

Anonymous wrote:Harvard, Yale, Princeton at the top.


Cornell at the bottom.


Dartmouth, Penn, Brown and Columbia in the middle.

+ I agree except I would put Brown and Cornell at the bottom.

Princeton

Harvard & Yale (cannot put one over the other)

Dartmouth

Columbia

Brown

Penn

Cornell

Anonymous wrote:Harvard
Princeton
Yale
Penn
Columbia
Dartmouth
Brown
Cornell

Dartmouth over Penn. Columbia over both of them.

Anonymous wrote:#1 Stanford

#2 HYP

Stanford isn't in the Ivy League.

Anonymous wrote:16:00 is dated in safety. Both Harlam and New Haven near campus are much safer than years ago. In fact, surprisingly some surveys have shown greater crime in Cambridge onHarvard's campus, although the differences are not important. But I would feel much safer the past few years with a kid in new Haven, NY or Cambridge than at Dartmouth b/c of the fraternty culture although the school this year seems to be trying to address the problem -- finally.

Morningside Heights is not Harlem. It's basically an extension of the Upper West Side and separated from Harlem by a steep park. I'd feel safer there than in New Haven. On the other hand, I don't think any other Ivy has a residential college system as impressive as Yale.

#1 Stanford

#2 HYP

16:00 is dated in safety. Both Harlam and New Haven near campus are much safer than years ago. In fact, surprisingly some surveys have shown greater crime in Cambridge onHarvard's campus, although the differences are not important. But I would feel much safer the past few years with a kid in new Haven, NY or Cambridge than at Dartmouth b/c of the fraternty culture although the school this year seems to be trying to address the problem -- finally.

Princeton at the top of HYP for undergrad for one really important reason:
there are virtually no graduate students, which means you actually have contact with your professors.

They teach the classes, teach most of the sections, teach seminars, and advise you on your junior paper and senior thesis. I also liked having the diversity of the Engineering school (which in addition to having a lot of kids who are smart in a way that I respect and learned to kind of understand, skews the male female ratio in favor of females).

You can develop relationships with professors at Harvard and Yale, but you have to stand out and be extremely self confident like my siblings, who had professors asking them out to lunch. That would not have happened to me at Harvard. I would have gotten lost.

Instead I got to be one of 12 students in a seminar taught by Maya Angelou where I was forced to speak and she actually listened and respected what I had to say, which blew my mind. The same was true of some other famous professors outside of my major.

Princeton is also small - so you don't get lost socially either. I came from a small private school and, as I said, was not the most confident person in the world. The needs blinds admissions means that it is an incredibly diverse environment and you can learn a lot about people who come from completely different backgrounds if you make the effort.

And finally Princeton is in a rural area. Harvard is also in a safe area, but a city. Yale and Columbia are not located in safe areas. But at Princeton there is not much you can get distracted by, and the only people you have to fear being assaulted by are male students (and, like at any other college, THAT is no joke).

My sibs also had great college experiences, but I was less confident about my intellectual prowess and would never have had the courage to develop the relationships with my professors that I did at Princeton. I also don't think I would have gone so far out of my comfort zone in terms of the friends I made, who have become friends for life, had I been at a larger school feeling lost - I would have just gravitated towards people who were familiar to me, like me..........

I love all of the variations. It'd be more fun if people posted the year they graduated. And which Ivy they attended.

Harvard, Yale, Princeton at the top.


Cornell at the bottom.


Dartmouth, Penn, Brown and Columbia in the middle.

Harvard
Princeton
Yale
Penn
Columbia
Dartmouth
Brown
Cornell