<p>This information is for perspective students. Parents who graduated from these schools may use this for their children’s benefit as well, but this is not for those alumni because their stats are totally different back in their days.</p>
<p>Source: Common Data Set from each school’s official website (2011-2012) </p>
<p>This one can link to most of them.
[Peer</a> Data Links | Office of Institutional Research](<a href=“http://oir.yale.edu/peers-data]Peer”>http://oir.yale.edu/peers-data)</p>
<p>Raw data of Ivy League schools by class size: (smallest to largest, and then other top schools)</p>
<p>Class Reading Math Writing</p>
<h1>Size 25-75% 25-75% 25-75%</h1>
<p>1,105 670-780, 690-790, 690-790, Dartmouth
1,300 700-790, 710-800, 700-790, Princeton
1,355 700-800, 710-790, 710-800, Yale
1,391 690-780, 700-790, 690-780, Columbia
1,485 660-750, 680-770, 670-770, Brown
1,661 690-790, 700-800, 690-790, Harvard
2,420 660-750, 690-780, 670-770, U Penn
3,182 630-730, 670-770, - - - - -, Cornell</p>
<p>1,126 670-770, 740-800, 680-770 MIT
1,724 660-750, 690-780, 670-770 Duke
1,279 630-730, 670-770, 650-750 Johns Hopkins
2,107 680-750, 700-780, 680-770 Northwestern
1,707 670-770, 690-780, 680-780 Stanford
1,601 680-770, 700-780, 670-760 Vanderbilt</p>
<p>Base on the raw data, look at their student body closer. (Raw data give a picture of each individual school student body strength but it is hard to compare between schools without taking freshman class size into consideration. )</p>
<p>Student body strength by listing top 800 SAT starting scores of
“Enrolled” freshman class (Fall 2011- Spring 2012):
(800 is within everyone’s 25-75%) </p>
<p>You may be surprised if you thought of this for the first time.</p>
<p>R--------- M---------R+M-------------------------- W R+M+W
735.50 765.50 1500.99 Penn----------------753.88 2254.88
729.72 769.72 1499.43 Cornell------------------------
743.67 753.67 1497.35 Harvard------------ 743.67 2241.02
731.84 759.25 1491.09 Northwestern------ 746.66 2237.75
731.92 735.54 1467.45 Yale---------------- 738.73 2206.18
726.27 740.64 1466.91 Stanford----------- 736.27 2203.18
725.06 740.05 1465.11 Vanderbilt--------- 715.06 2180.16
724.23 734.23 1458.46 Princeton---------- 724.23 2182.69
721.48 731.48 1452.96 Columbia---------- 721.48 2174.43
711.47 741.47 1452.95 Duke--------------- 727.19 2180.14
677.90 744.74 1422.65 MIT----------------- 687.11 2109.76
698.03 718.03 1416.06 Brown-------------- 712.26 2128.32
675.72 695.20 1370.93 Dartmouth------ 695.20 2066.13
654.90 694.90 1349.81 J. Hopkins----- 674.90 2024.71</p>
<p>This is by figuring out the percentile of the #800 in each freshman class size, and for each SAT subjects calculate the SAT score of that percentile. (you can convert them to be in tenth)</p>
<p>Schools with freshman class size much bigger than 3200 shouldn’t be calculated mathematically for top 800 because their top 800 is outside of 25-75 percentiles where no data is available.</p>
<p>Class size is a very important factor. If one only looked at raw data without considering freshman class size, it is deceiving… feel like Yale has the strongest student body just looking at raw data.</p>
<p>To explain from the result chart of student body academic strength:</p>
<p>Freshman class size Harvard ~1600, Penn ~2400, Cornell ~3200, about 2:3:4 (or 1:1.5:2)</p>
<p>=====|=====| Harvard
=====|=====|=====| Penn
=====|=====|=====|=====| Cornell</p>
<p>=====
The top 800 of them are about the same on SAT strength. If calculated the top 1600 just for these three u. their starting SATs are probably about the same which is the size of the whole freshman class of Harvard… Penn and Cornell are just bigger and can take more students. </p>
<p>If a perspective student likes academically strong peers but even more diverse student body, he/she can choose a bigger school. </p>
<p>2012-2013 one will follow this one with U.Chicago info. (I won’t explain again in next one)</p>