<p>Really? I thought people here liked Yale more.</p>
<p>I know more people who chose Dartmouth over Princeton than Dartmouth over Yale.</p>
<p>I worked on Wall Street for three years after undergrad and Dartmouth has incredible representation on the Street in absolute terms and especially adjusted for size. The fratastic reputation, last bastion for country club conservatives, etc. is a huge selling point even though Dartmouth has a lot of granola, jam band hippies too. It seems like a school of sharp contrasts.</p>
<p>Yale is not much of a feeder to Wall Street. Tops I would say are Wharton, Dartmouth, Princeton, Columbia, Harvard, Penn CAS, Cornell, Yale, Brown in that order (adjusted for UG size)</p>
<p>Princeton is very pretentious and the more you visit the more some dislike things about it. The opposite was true to us about Dartmouth. The more you visit the more you like it and the surrounding communities.</p>
<p>As a parent I am impressed with the opportunities my son is getting as a sophomore at Dartmouth (an Economics class with just 5 students for example); travel opportunities; ability to consult with faculty at the Tuck School, I am not at all worried about prestige-I do worry about a subset of people who compare each other based on the school they go to-that is getting very old and I would prefer a person with a sense of humility and a sense of humor if I were doing the hiring. In fact, all you Ivy types be prepared for a graduate of a state school or a non-name brand college being your boss or your doctor or your lawyer-Ivy league is no ticket or badge of who you are-or what you can do with your life-after all you are just 18-</p>
<p>^ agree— though the Ivy degree may open doors, it also comes with some burdens to prove your capabilities and productivity.</p>