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Old 07-04-2009, 07:55 AM   #10
tk21769
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Cornell: unique mix of Ivy League college of arts & sciences and public land grant university (with a top agriculture school, excellent engineering and architecture programs, etc., in addition to liberal arts)

Dartmouth: isolated, rural New Hampshire location. Outdoor Programs, Winter Carnival. Unusually small for a university with 19 graduate arts & science programs, plus medical, business, and engineering schools.

Harvard: relatively seamless integration into a relatively safe, walkable urban environment. Step through the gates and you are in the middle of Cambridge, a more attractive setting for students than what surrounds the other urban Ivies. (Yale, by comparison, is more like a castle fortress inside New Haven.)

Princeton: no medical, law, or business school; relatively limited range of grad school departments compared to Harvard and Yale.
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