Ivy vs others

halcyonheather
Tue, 16 Jul 2013 11:47:15 +0000

if the difference isn’t much between other “top” colleges.



All colleges are different. You won’t have the same experience going to Dartmouth as you would going to Harvard even though they’re both in the Ivy League. In any school, some departments are stronger than others, and that’s something to consider in additional to the overall quality of the school.

The Ivies (along with Stanford, MIT, etc.) are old and rich and famous. They’re more prestigious than most other schools (which can benefit you in certain career paths) and you’ll get a very good education going to one of them. They have high endowments so they give great need-based aid. But, like I said, these schools always get far more awesome highly-qualified applicants than they can possibly accept, and these applicants end up at the other top schools.