Yale among the Ivies

ilovebagels
Mon, 28 Jan 2008 19:12:45 +0000

The school has the strongest focus on undergraduates in the United States (even surpassing all of the small LACs)

From this, I can conclude that you haven’t spent much time at Dartmouth, Amherst, Williams, Swarthmore.



. The area of undergraduate dorms is significantly denser than any other campus, meaning that everything to do and everyone’s friends are accessible within a 2-3 minute walk



And from this I can conclude that you haven’t been to Columbia, the entire campus of which covers all of 36 acres.



In terms of location, the other Ivies don’t measure up.

Now this is probably among the dumbest things I’ve heard today. For a city, New York, Philadelphia, and Boston are all better cities than New Haven. For bucolic rural settings, Ithaca and Hanover are going to beat New Haven. And it all depends on what you prefer.



Finally, in terms of overall undergraduate quality of science and engineering, Yale is easily the best in the Ivies

And from this I can simply conclude that you haven’t spent much time on planet earth. There is only one serious engineering school in the Ivy League, and that is Cornell. Then Princeton. Several Ivies have strength in life sciences thanks to synergies from their excellent med schools (Harvard’s and Penn’s being better than Yale’s), but that’s it.

Look, nobody doubts that Yale is among the finest schools in the nation, if not the world. All of the Ivies are. But no Ivy or any school is the absolute best at everything–period. I’m sure everyone with the possible exception of you can see that.