<ol>
<li>princeton</li>
<li>harvard</li>
<li>yale</li>
<li>dartmouth</li>
<li>columbia</li>
<li>penn</li>
<li>cornell</li>
<li>brown</li>
</ol>
<p>1 part prestige, 2 parts undergrad experience and…</p>
<p>harvard
princeton
brown
yale
dartmouth
columbia
penn
cornell</p>
<p>all right here’s how i roll, personally:</p>
<ol>
<li>Princeton</li>
<li>Penn</li>
<li>Harvard</li>
<li>Brown</li>
<li>Columbia</li>
<li>Dartmouth</li>
<li>Cornell</li>
<li>Yale</li>
</ol>
<p>P.S. I’m from New Haven.</p>
<p>I don’t know where this thread came from at ALL, but I guess I’ll throw in my unsubstantiated opinions:</p>
<ol>
<li>Princeton</li>
<li>Yale</li>
<li>Dartmouth</li>
<li>Harvard</li>
<li>Columbia</li>
<li>Brown</li>
<li>Penn</li>
<li>Cornell </li>
</ol>
<p>I’ve only visited Yale and Princeton (loved them both) and was only accepted at 3 (I only applied to 4), but that’s my two-cents.</p>
<p>There’s a similar thread on the Harvard board. Their rankings are yet another indication that Princeton students are smarter. ;)</p>
<p>Ranked on quality of undergraduate education:</p>
<ol>
<li>Princeton</li>
<li>Yale</li>
<li>Harvard</li>
<li>Columbia</li>
<li>Penn</li>
<li>Cornell</li>
<li>Dartmouth</li>
<li>Brown</li>
</ol>
<p>1) University of Chicago (ok…ok…)</p>
<p>Now for real… in order of my personal preference:</p>
<p>Princeton! (woody woo sounds amazing!)
Columbia (NYC+Core=Love)
Yale (Would be higher but looses points due to certain alumni…)
Dartmouth (It seems nice)
Harvard (Name recognition is nice)
UPenn (Ben Franklin is cool)
Cornell (doesn’t deserve a reason)
Brown (a complete load of BS… NO REQUIREMENTS!? W-t-f…)</p>
<ol>
<li>Harvard</li>
<li>Yale</li>
<li>Princeton</li>
<li>Penn</li>
<li>Columbia</li>
<li>Darthmouth</li>
<li>Cornell</li>
<li>Brown</li>
</ol>
<p>You will all be shocked at my rankings, but these are solely based on personal preference.</p>
<ol>
<li>Dartmouth </li>
<li>Cornell</li>
<li>UPenn</li>
<li>Brown</li>
<li>Columbia</li>
<li>Princeton</li>
<li>Yale</li>
<li>Harvard</li>
</ol>
<p>If I were to actually incorporate some of my research into this, then I’d say it would have to be the following.</p>
<ol>
<li>Princeton –> Not for me.</li>
<li>Yale –> Nice school. Too hard to get in.</li>
<li>Harvard –> Not for me.</li>
<li>Dartmouth –> The best match. Hope to do ED.</li>
<li>Brown –> Nice school. Ridiculously selective for its rankings.</li>
<li>Columbia –> Very nice school, but can it beat Dartmouth in my eyes? Negative.</li>
<li>Cornell –> This school is bashed for no reason at all. If it wasn’t part of the Ivy League, then the Ivy League would lose some of its exclusive things.</li>
<li>UPenn –> On the other hand, I do not like this school. Simply, I don’t.</li>
</ol>
<p>International Reputation based on European/Asian Name-Recognition</p>
<p>Harvard
Yale/Columbia
PRinceton (due to notable lack of professional schools)
Cornell</p>
<p>No one’s heard of Brown, Dartmouth, or Penn outside the US.</p>
<p>so true…in fact even berkeley has a better reputation than these three internationally.</p>
<p>Does anybody know about the Woodrow Wilson School of International Affairs in term of international reputation/recognition? I’m just curious about its prestige or anything outside of the fact that it’s part of Princeton.</p>
<p>Woody Wood is the arguably (it for all purposes is) in conjunction with the Institute for Advanced Studies the two truly visible powerhouses of Princeton at the graduate level. I’d say that Woody Wood is = Georgetown SFS in terms of learning about IA. BUT given that… youhave to apply to get in I believe at the end of your sopmhore year.</p>
<p>I don’t know where truazn goes in Asia but my own escapades there have revealed a rather strong awareness of my own school.</p>
<p>And the tier system really is best. (each tier alphabetical)</p>
<ol>
<li>Harvard Princeton Yale</li>
<li>Columbia Penn</li>
<li>Brown Dartmouth</li>
<li>Cornell</li>
</ol>
<p>Woody Woo is known everywhere. I was talking to some random guy who lives down the street from me the other day, (in Israel), and he was like “Oh, Princeton… Don’t they have some really really good internation relations department there?”</p>
<p>JohnnyK has it right :).</p>
<p>
</p>
<p>The Institute is not officially affiliated with the University.</p>
<p>Yale
Harvard
Princeton
Brown
Dartmouth
Columbia
UPenn
Cornell</p>
<p>Only someone from Penn State, mean UPenn, mean …Wharton would rank it as a second tier. Every one knows that in the last tier you have Columbia, Cornell and Upenn …in that order…</p>
<p>“Here is a list of institutions producing Fulbright Scholars this year, from Chronicle of Higher Education. Note that the number of applicants is for the most part fairly consistent from each school (although large schools like UC Berkeley have a few more than smaller ones), but the number who win from each school is very different:”</p>
<p>1 Yale U. 31
2 Harvard U. 25
3 Brown U. 24
4 Columbia U. 21</p>
<p>7 U. of Pennsylvania 18</p>
<p>9 Cornell U. 15 </p>
<p>14 Princeton U. 13</p>
<p>Dartmouth: Fewer than 10 (wasn’t in the top 25) </p>
<p>(the numbers missing correspond to the rankings of non ivies, which I removed since we are not talking about the other schools…) Courtesy of posterX</p>
<p>( note the only two ivies that were shut out this year…)</p>
<p>Also, about the newly released list of 72 new members and 18 new foreign associates of the prestigious National Academy of Sciences: </p>
<p>Princeton, Harvard - 5 each
Cornell - 2
Yale, Brown, Dartmouth - 1 each
Columbia, Penn- shut out</p>