<p>what is the easiest ivy to get into?</p>
<p>cornell..but hardest to get the grades u want</p>
<p>Ditto on that one.</p>
<p>I won't disagree but I would add that Cornell has six or seven undergrad colleges with different selectivities. Arts and Sciences and Engineering are very selective. Some of the New York State statutory colleges at Cornell are also very selective. The median SAT at Cornell Engineering is within about 30 points of MIT and Cal Tech. I think the Cornell Arts and Sciences selectivity is comparable to the Arts and Sciences at other Ivys. I agree that the grading at Cornell is tough and I respect Cornell for it.</p>
<p>Cornell, but don't expect to get easy A's like all the other Ivys.</p>
<p>Cornell is easy to get in, but its still a lot harder than many other schools. Columbia SEAS is easy to get in.</p>
<p>ok so Cornell is the easiest ivie to get into.</p>
<p>What are the easiest ivies (or any really good schools) to get good grades in?</p>
<p>Probably Penn</p>
<p>Harvard has the most notorious grade inflation</p>
<p>Mmmm, ironically, the hardest schools to get into are the ones with rampant grade inflation. Harvard, Yale and Princeton are known for grade inflation. Recently, Princeton tried to "battle" it by capping # or A's given out at 35% or something - there was another thread on this in some forum a while back.<br>
Penn has that wicked bell curve, esp. in Wharton. Cornell and Dartmouth doesn't seem to have the same problem as HYP in grade inflation. Don't know about Columbia.
And also, as for "getting in", depends on what programs/schools you apply to. For instance, Penn has some joint degree programs that accept around 40 ppl out of an int'l pool of almost 600 applicants. And Cornell's engineering programs, as I recall, are harder to get into than their other schools. Also, keep in mind that Cornell and Penn are the two biggest ivies in how many students are in one class.<br>
With that said, as for admissions go, in a general sense, HYP are the hardest three to get into, with the other 5 rounding out the second half.</p>
<p>If you reverse the order of PR's "Toughest Schools to Get Into" you get the following ranking of easiest Ivies to get into:</p>
<p>PR's Easiest Ivies (to get into)</p>
<ol>
<li>Cornell</li>
<li>Dartmouth</li>
<li>Brown</li>
<li>Columbia</li>
<li>Penn</li>
<li>Harvard</li>
<li>Yale</li>
<li>Princeton</li>
</ol>
<p>Cornell depends on where you're applying. . . . .It's there even a school of textiles there, I can't immagine textiles being overly competitive.</p>
<p>Dartmouth admission isn't overly insane, is it? I know it's still really selective, but not like Harvard, Princeton, or Yale.</p>
<p>This year RD admission for Dartmouth will be around 12%. When you take the 30% ED admission rate (approximately) it hovers around 18%.</p>
<p>The easiest Ivy to get into is Columbia GS...they have a 50% acceptance rate....Columbia-College is harder though.</p>
<p>I actually think its programs at certain schools. Columbia SEAS and some Penn/ Cornell schools. Brown and Dartmouth are actually pretty difficult as everyone faces the same admissions process.</p>
<p>The admission rate at Columbia SEAS is pretty high but it's due to its self-selectivity. When you look at the average sat scores on Columbia SEAS, it's actually lot higher than other programs.</p>
<p>It is high, but the other stats (ECs etc) are lacking. I was on the student government academic affairs committee and through conversations with (then admissions director) Eric Furda, I learned that the College is much more selective.</p>
<p>Columbia College is tied with Yale for 2nd lowest admission rate of a national university at 11% behind Princeton and Harvard at 10%. Columbia SEAS, and any SEAS program at the Ivies is easier to get into. The average GPA at Columbia is 3.6, so I think there is some, but not a lot of grade inflation (not near Harvard's 25% 4.0 rate). </p>
<p>Any of the Ivies are difficult to get into, and one should never base the school they apply to on odds. If you want to apply ED to an Ivy, or any school, be sure to think that if you got into every school you apply to, you would go to the ED school.</p>
<p>I believe the average GPA and SAT scores of students at Columbia SEAS is higher than the college.</p>
<p>As mentioned earlier, the applicant pool is full of very qualified students and the 50% that are eliminated includes many strong applicants.</p>
<p>As far as applicants to SEAS not having as many ECs, I don't know. I guess, that would be a very good thing, because I have a lower than Columbia SEAS SAT, I have a 1360, SEAS is higher. Maybe all the work I've put in through school organizations and leadership positions will pay off, maybe I've found my niche. </p>
<p>Does SEAS place more priority on standardized test scores or high envolvement in the community?</p>
<p>Maybe my ECs make me a stronger applicant than I thought? (ex: Student Council Pres, Sec Honor Society, Assis. Editor Newspaper, Vice President Spanish Honor Society, SPL Boy Scouts, Eagle Scout, Youth Music Minister, Community Band, PTA Citzenship Award, Prudential Spirit of the Community, Boys State. . . . .ect.)</p>
<p>They favor research experiences for ECs and most of applicants for Columbia SEAS have it. If you have international Olympiads, AMC, AIME, USAMO, INTEL,..etc. These would be really good, too.</p>
<p>But I don't think high envolvement in the community would be a 'hook' for Columbia SEAS. Because they are looking for people who are smart enough to follow their curriculums and stuff, not the people who are well rounded and envolved in the community.</p>
<p>I think if u have strong general ECs, u are much better off at Columbia College, not SEAS.
Of course, if u want to study engineering, u should apply for SEAS.</p>