Which one do you guys think is easier to get into? I’m a junior right now and I’m still researching universities/compiling a possible list.
Can you rank in the order from easiest to hardest to get into, and also, which university’s admissions is more numbers based (eg. SAT/GPA) than the others?
Thanks!
<p>Chicago (Really specific kind of kid they are looking for: intellectuals who value the spirit of the university…great undergrad. education.)
Cornell (…meh.)
Georgetown (Depends which school you are applying to…SFS is hell).</p>
<p>Oh right I forgot to mention what schools:
Georgetown: College
Chicago: College, I believe theres nothing else
Cornell: College of Arts and Sciences
Plan to major in Psychology/Biology as a pre-med 
Thanks, anyone else have an opinion?</p>
<p>Ok. I have to admit. I mis-read your post. My post goes from hardest to easiest. </p>
<p>Hardest: Chicago
Medium: Cornell
Easiest: Georgetown</p>
<p>I was accepted to Georgetown last year and took a year off. I’m also going to major in bio and plan on going to medical school. I’m really looking forward to going; its a GREAT school!! They have a really good research program called the Howard Hughes Scholars Program. Apparently, it looks really good on your apps to med school.</p>
<p>I’d have to say</p>
<p>For most regular people: Ivy Cornell >>>>Chicago=Georgetown
For professors : Cornell=Chicago >> Georgetown</p>
<p>I would say Chicago is hardest, you really have to be what they’re looking for, it’s not that it’s on the ivy level in terms of acceptance rate, but it’s similar to columbia, dartmouth, brown in how they look at the applicants</p>
<p>Cornell- the lowest of the ivys by far, and not overly difficult to get into (don’t flame me!)</p>
<p>georgetown- while a great school, perhaps on cornell’s level, it just isn’t as difficult as some of the others listed above</p>
<p>“Cornell- the lowest of the ivys by far”</p>
<p>Uhhh…it’s an Ivy! There’s no low ivy, you moron. Chicago has much easier to get into than an Ivy I know of! It accepts 55% of all applicants.</p>
<p>I had a feeling someone would overreact. I am allowed to have my own opinion, and I do. It’s the lowest of the ivies, though I respect it, it just is the lowest. Like I said, Uchi has an better selectivity, even with a higher acceptance rate, in my PERSONAL opinion.</p>
<p>Well, personal opinions mean !@#$. Numbers talk, not “opinions.”</p>
<p>Georgetown- 23%
Cornell- 30%
Chicago- 40%</p>
<p>23<30<40</p>
<p>Hmmm…
Oh and also, Georgetown College has a lower acceptance rate than SFS. Learn the facts people.</p>
<p>I’m agreed with brenner. He got in EA to Gtown but I did not, deferred with a number of very qualified people. I have to say Georgetown is very competitive, and I’d say it carries more prestige than Cornell or Chicago.</p>
<p>Everyone calm down…why do you care so much about #s?? You should love the school, not its selectivity or ranking or whatev. :)</p>
<p>Personally, I thought G-town would have been the hardest to get into…but that doesn’t seem to be the consensus???</p>
<p>NickyJane speaks much truth. </p>
<p>Fwiw, I think Chicago is hardest to get into because its applicants self-select the most of the three. The “Chicago” person is the most unusual.</p>
<p>well
georgetown has the lowest acceptance rate more b/c people apply there
more people who should not be there
while at uchi and cornell people that shouldn’t be there usually do not apply
people in say for example the 2nd quarter and 1300’s will apply to georgetown
but yes cornell is an ivy league and very impressive and although the other ivies carry more respect, cornell still is a fine institution
chicago the acceptance rates are so high b/c they have less applicants barely 10,000 compared to cornells approx. 19000. im sure gtown’s is around the mid twenty thousands</p>
<p>Cornell is only easier to get into than the other ivies because of its large student body. Any professor would say that Cornell and Chicago are much better overall for sciences, and Georgetown is probably better for political science. Percentage of acceptance does not prove how good a University is. Chicago is an unbelievable school, and Georgetowns admission rate only dropped so low when its bball team started doing well in the 90’s. Also, Cornell and Chicago (with their higher acceptance rates) are better and more recognized than a few of the other ivy league schools in the sciences.</p>
<p>Here’s my opinion in regard to hardest to get into:</p>
<p>Chicago>Georgetown>Cornell</p>
<p>But we all know they’re all great schools…right…</p>
<p>Really, why are you trying to rank them, they are all elite. Deferred’s post was incoherent. I will echo what jcas said. Each school has stronger programs than others. For example, no one is raving about Caltech’s art history program.</p>
<p>TD is absolutely correct, not only does UofC have its own essays, but they ARE uncommon. If UofC used common app with no supplementals, there is no doubt that they, too, would receive thousand more apps. Thus, its acceptance rate is not relevant to compare to GTown and the Big Red (big bcos it IS the biggest Ivy); similar to revieiwing an acceptance rate for an all-women’s college – they can be extremely selective, but the app pool self-selects and is smaller, all other things being equal.</p>
<p>it probably also depends on your school. at my school many, many more people apply to cornell and gtown than chicago.</p>
<p>By far UChicago is the easiest. Just from the kids in my high school alone, kids who got into Chicago couldnt even look at Georgetown and Cornell. I would say Georgetown and Cornell are similar.</p>