Ranking the Ivies

andy_g
Tue, 10 Jun 2008 17:56:48 +0000

would you separate the engineering school from cornell or the woodrow wilson school from princeton?? i dont think so. similarily, wharton is only a PART of penn, not vice versa. the fact that business happens to be the area where penn excels at the most does not mean you shouldn’t judge penn as a university (especially when there are other academic areas not related to business where the school is also top ranked).
i cant rank the ivies by any means other than what ive heard from a few students, but (from what ive heard), and my own personal preferences:


yale, 2.princeton (though i did not apply to either b/c neither new haven nor princeton nj seem like places where i’d enjoy living)…3. harvard (apparently they dont care that much about their undergrads)
penn (most of you will disagree, but with the variety of undergrad and grad schools all located on the same campus, and the ability and encouragement to take classes in all of them, penn offers an undergraduate education with more depth and breath than most other schools. plus you get to not live in the middle of nowhere)
5.columbia, 6. cornell, 7.brown, 8 dartmouth


but its not like i know what im talking about at all. for what its worth i also think stanford is better than all the ivies.