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<p>Guys - some basic math facility is called for here.<br>
The Cornell - 14 and Princeton - 26 only makes sense in the context of the # of applicants from each school, which you don’t have.</p>
<p>Saugus - let’s say 28 Cornellians applied and 50% (14) were accepted, just for the sake of argument.
How can you conclude that the 26 from Princeton means “Princeton multiplies your chances by 2.5”?<br>
It might be that 26 from Princeton applied and 100% (all 26) were accepted.<br>
Or 52 from Princeton applied and 50% (26) were accepted - same ratio as Cornell.<br>
Or 260 from Princeton applied and 10% (26) were accepted.</p>
<p>The actual size of the school is immaterial. The only thing that matters is the size of the applicant pool for the grad school (or career) in question, relative to the size of those who got in. This mistake is made over and over and over again on CC, and it’s super frustrating to observe bright kids making it.</p>
<p>Anyway, JHS is completely right, as usual - schools at this level are all equivalent for the purposes of getting into a good b-school, and b-schools care about what you did after your undergrad, not about your undergrad per se. You guys way, way overthink the impact of these minute differences in the real world. In the real world, which includes HBS, Duke and Gtown are both excellent, first-rate schools, end of subject.</p>