What Is Each Ivy League U Known For?

[Opensecret]

<p>zapfino:

Re: Post #13: “But the way your questions are framed raises questions about whether you’re likely to be able to produce an essay that would work in an Ivy admissions process.”</p>

<p>That is totally unhelpful and uncalled for…you don’t know the OP, so I very much doubt whether you are in any position to judge her ability to write an appropriate essay.</p>

<p>"…If your goal is simply to be a successful, affluent pillar of your community, and intellectual challenge isn’t a priority for you, a good state university should do the job.'</p>

<p>The tone of your remarks is pretentious and patronizing.

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<p>I was aware that my post would sound elitist, and, frankly, it was intended to be provocative. My sense is that OP needs to get his/her game up to a higher level to have a shot at Harvard or the other Ivies. And my last comment, snarky as it may sound, was intended to say it’s really important for OP, or anyone thinking about Harvard, to get clear about what s/he really wants from a college. </p>

<p>I know Harvard pretty well from the inside; I figure it’s good to be honest if I think someone is on the wrong track but doesn’t know it.</p>

[cmburns14]

<p>when you think about how good the elite US universities are compared to the rest of the world, you get a sense of how incredible any ivy is, from an academic point of view. I believe these rankings focus on research productivity- and not the quality of undergraduate education. Tsinghua and Peking in China and the top Grandes Ecoles in France generally produce more accomplished students than ivy BA grads.</p>

<p>ARWU (2009)
[ARWU</a> 2009](<a href=“http://www.arwu.org/ARWU2009.jsp]ARWU”>http://www.arwu.org/ARWU2009.jsp)</p>

<p>1 Harvard University Americas 1 1 100 100 100 100 100 74.8 100.0
2 Stanford University Americas 2 2 39 78.7 87.1 67.3 70.1 66.9 73.1
3 University of California, Berkeley Americas 3 3 67.4 77.1 68.4 71.1 69 53.2 71.0
4 University of Cambridge Europe 1 1 89.4 91.5 53.8 53.9 65.4 65.5 70.2
5 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Americas 4 4 71 80.6 65.7 67.9 62 54.4 69.5
6 California Institute of Technology Americas 5 5 51.5 69.1 57.1 66.2 47.7 100 64.8
7 Columbia University Americas 6 6 70.6 67.7 55.7 49.1 69.6 46.5 61.7
8 Princeton University Americas 7 7 57.8 85.2 61.6 41.5 45.7 61.4 60.2
9 University of Chicago Americas 8 8 65.8 84.3 49.7 38.6 51.6 41.8 57.0
10 University of Oxford Europe 2 2 57.6 57.9 48.9 49.8 66.1 45.7 56.3
11 Yale University Americas 9 9 49.8 43.6 57.6 55.7 62.7 49.5 55.2
12 Cornell University Americas 10 10 40.5 51.3 54.3 51.7 61.2 39.9 53.1
13 University of California, Los Angeles Americas 11 11 23.8 42.8 57.4 50.3 74.5 36.2 52.3
14 University of California, San Diego Americas 12 12 15.5 35.9 60.3 53.9 65.2 48 50.7
15 University of Pennsylvania Americas 13 13 30.9 34.4 57.6 44.1 69 39.8 49.3
16 University of Washington Americas 14 14 25 31.8 53.3 48.8 73.7 28.1 48.0
17 University of Wisconsin - Madison Americas 15 15 37.5 35.5 52.3 39.8 66.7 28.6 46.7
18 University of California, San Francisco Americas 16 16 0 36.8 53.8 49.7 59.9 46.7 45.9
19 The Johns Hopkins University Americas 17 17 44.7 27.8 41.7 49.1 67.1 24.9 45.2
20 The University of Tokyo Asia/Pacific 1 1 34.1 14.1 42.9 49 79.7 34.1 45.1
21 University College London Europe 3 3 30.4 32.2 40.4 45.2 66 36.1 44.6
22 University of Michigan - Ann Arbor Americas 18 18 37.5 0 60.3 41.4 77.3 31.4 43.8
23 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich Europe 4 1 35 36.3 35.9 41.8 52.6 57 43.6
24 Kyoto University Asia/Pacific 2 2 34.6 34.9 38.4 34.6 67.3 31 42.7
25 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Americas 19 19 36.2 36.6 42.9 35.9 59.7 26.8 42.4
26 The Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Europe 5 4 18.1 37.4 40.4 35.9 61.7 39.4 41.9
27 University of Toronto Americas 20 1 24.4 19.3 39.1 35.1 78.2 27.5 40.5</p>

[monydad]

<p>Cornell is known for the diversity of its offerings ,the variety of the fields represented within its seven undergraduate colleges, graduate & professional schools. It is New York State’s land grant college, and offers study in a number of specialized and applied fields, above and beyond the traditional liberal arts disciplines, that are not represented at these other universities. Only 1/3 of its undergads are matriculated in its College of Arts & Sciences, whereas such students range from most to all at these other universities. Three of its undergrad colleges (and the vet school) receive significant funding from New York State, and in-state students at these colleges receive subsidized tuition. It has the largest undergrad student body of this set of universities.</p>

<p>Some of its stronger particular programs include: sciences and engineering, various areas of the humanities, such as english, literature, languages and creative writing; architecture, landscape architecture, veterinary medicine, agriculture, human development, labor relations, and hotel administration. The sciences are strong generally, some noteworthy particular sub-areas include : physics, chemistry, astronomy, applied & engineering physics, materials science, operations research, computer science, nanotechnology, statistics, ecology & evolutionary biology. The undergraduate business program, and masters financial engineering program, have raised their profiles significantly in recent years.</p>

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