<p>...just a thought, based on the following, which ivy school is the 'best' for each factor?</p>
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<li>location (environment, campus, surroundings)</li>
<li>academics (rigor)</li>
<li>social life</li>
<li>success rate...? as in...which would help you more after graduation
...i might think of more later :)</li>
</ul>
<p>Location: probably Columbia
Academics: Depends on major, but I'll say Harvard
Social Life: Dartmouth and UPenn
Success rate: Name-wise, Harvard again, but each one will get you far really</p>
<p>for location, at least, it really depends on the person. Boston is amazing because of all the colleges, but some people (like Rman most likely) like the bigger city feel of Columbia, while other, perhaps more outdoorsy people, might prefer the mountains and whatnot around Dartmouth.</p>
<p>Actually I don't have much of a preference garr, but half the people who apply to Columbia due so because it's located in NYC</p>
<p>ok. I go to Dartmouth, and I chose it because of its location, because i dont really like big cities. but i guess im in the minority.</p>
<p>awhile ago i was hoping to get into yale; however, i have heard a lot of things about the ridiculous crime rate and poor security...is that true?</p>
<p>I beg to differ on the success part .... Wharton is an amazing money factory.</p>
<ul>
<li><p>location - depends too much on the person. City lovers will like Harvard and Columbia, others will like Dartmouth and Cornell</p></li>
<li><p>academics (rigor) - Cornell, I have yet to hear anybody say otherwise. </p></li>
<li><p>social life - on campus, Cornell. Off campus, Columbia, Harvard. Overall probably Penn</p></li>
<li><p>success rate. It's the ivy league, any one will work. Also depends on the major you're interested in. Engineering at Cornell is ranked much higher than engineering at Harvard, but a history major will probably fare better at Harvard than at Cornell.</p></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>location</li>
</ul>
<p>Columbia</p>
<ul>
<li>academics (rigor)</li>
</ul>
<p>For pure rigor? Probably Cornell. </p>
<ul>
<li>social life</li>
</ul>
<p>Penn and Dartmouth.</p>
<ul>
<li>success rate...? as in...which would help you more after graduation</li>
</ul>
<p>You do realize that all of these schools will produce the future leaders of the world, right? I really don't think that one Ivy truly gives that much of a big leg up, although HYP, Wharton and Dartmouth might give one an edge in the business world.</p>
<p>u dont know what your talking about</p>
<p>for pure business, it would be Stanford, MIT, Princeton, Harvard, Yale, and Wharton</p>
<p>case closed</p>
<p>I was talking in terms of the Ivies... Dartmouth and its amazing alumni network gives one a big advantage over other Ivies like Brown, Cornell and even Columbia.</p>
<p>But yes, of course Stanford and MIT are tops too.</p>
<p>Wait. Princeton and Yale don't even have UG or Grad. business schools (unless I'm mistaken). Wharton (UG/Grad), Haaarhhhvaaaddd (Grad), MIT (UG/Grad) and Stanford (Grad) are powerhouses when it comes to a business education and success rate.</p>
<p>...and Dartmouth (Tuck)</p>
<p>sorry...and Dartmouth.</p>
<p>princeton has an undergrad financial engineering major which counts as business, and the job placement is extremely good.</p>
<p>How can CCers, most of whom don't go to colleges, and the ones who do only go to ONE college, rank the Ivies based on social life?</p>
<p>I've never visited the college I'm set to attend, but through rumors and comments from current/past students, I can kind of perceive what the social culture may be like.</p>
<p>I'm not particularly fond of any of the Ivies locations, with maybe an exception to Brown and Yale. </p>
<p>Dartmouth and Cornell both beautiful but isolated.</p>
<p>Harvard's campus itself is underwhelming and cramp in Cambridge with Lord knows how much traffic flowing through it.</p>
<p>Columbia is smack dab in Manhattan, so much that it's hard to define or conceal the campuse for yourself. If I wanted to be in NYC, I don't mean boxed in off of Broadway. The campus, what there is is beautiful, but no.</p>
<p>Why can't the Ivies justbe like Stanford ;) SO FRUSTRATING!</p>
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<p>That's the only category anyone can somewhat accurately rate because it's common to know someone at each school or it's easy to spend a weekend at a school. </p>
<p>Location is too subjective, success rate is simply not known, and rigor is impossible to compare unless you spend at least a couple months taking classes at each school.</p>
<p>Beautifully stated shizz.</p>