What's the easiest Ivy to get into?

blukorea
Sun, 11 Nov 2007 02:23:51 +0000

-.- yet another question of this sort (you can find a ton if you do a simple search). As someone who’s attended two of the ivies, Penn and Cornell:

Sure, Cornell is the “easiest” to get into (note scare quotes), largely because of its bigger student body. But I agree with collegehelp. Cornell’s L&S stats are comparable to those of Penn and Brown, and other colleges (e.g., ILR and human ecology) look for credentials apart from numbers so pure comparisons of admission rates or SAT scores are not meaningful.

There is no such thing as “students at an ivy X” being smarter than Cornell’s because of a hundred-point difference on average SAT scores. What people must realize is that there is no objective way to rank the schools terms of students’ intelligence, which varies between persons, majors, and colleges (e.g., Cornell’s hotel school and architecture students are the brightest in the nation; engineering students brightest in the ivies, allegedly). The closest way is to approximate them in packs, which would put Cornell, Brown, and Penn (except Wharton) at around the same level.