<p>Seas is much more stats driven than the college, hence the higher SAT scores.</p>
<p>Which is the hardest Ivy? Cornell. While the percent of students graduating with honors at Harvard was 91% percent, the percent graduating with honors from Cornell was 8%.</p>
<p>percent graduating with honors:
Harvard 91%
Yale 51%
Princeton 44%
Brown 42%
Dartmouth 40%
Johns Hopkins 35%
Duke 28%
Columbia 25%
Stanford 20%
Cornell 8%</p>
<p>Here is an exerpt from the Boston Globe, Oct 8 , 2001:
"Helped along by grade inflation and lax requirements not usually associated with top universities, a record 91 percent of Harvard seniors graduated with honors last June, eclipsing peers at 13 other elite US colleges, a Globe study has found.</p>
<p>Harvard's honor roll stunned rival universities, many of whom make exacting, often brutal choices to distinguish outstanding student work from the merely excellent. ''Hilarious,'' the dean of Yale College said of Harvard's 91 percent. ''Can't believe it,'' a Cornell vice provost concurred. ''It wouldn't ever happen at Dartmouth,'' said the dean of faculty at that Ivy, which is sometimes derided as Harvard's academically lesser peer.</p>
<p>Yale, Brown, and many other elites now limit honors as a way to preserve its value. Yale caps universitywide honors at 30 percent of graduating seniors, - though, when comparing various types of honors with Harvard's, a total of 51 percent of Yale seniors earned some form of honors last spring.</p>
<p>Behind Harvard and Yale is Princeton, where the honors rate this year was 44 percent; Brown, 42 percent; Dartmouth, 40 percent; Columbia, 25 percent; and Cornell, 8 percent. The University of Pennsylvania denied requests for the data, saying furnishing it would violate student privacy.</p>
<p>Elsewhere, 28 percent of Duke University seniors received honors last spring, while the rate was 20 percent at Stanford and 35 percent at Johns Hopkins. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology doesn't award honors, saying the sheer value of its degree is distinctive."</p>
<p>Whoa... do not want to go to Cornell after seeing that.</p>
<p>"The Massachusetts Institute of Technology doesn't award honors, saying the sheer value of its degree is distinctive"</p>
<p>thats lame.</p>
<p>As the sayings go:</p>
<p>Cornell is the easiest to get into but the hardest to do well at.</p>
<p>Harvard is the hardest to get into but the easiest to do well at.</p>
<p>lol no offense i think cornell is a great school but that is such an overstatement</p>
<p>im sure many students admitted and enrolled at harvard can graduate at cornell with honors.</p>
<p>Yeah, I never got this. Why not go to the school that is the best and gives out the best grades.</p>
<p>because that is also the hardest school to get in to</p>
<p>HYP share the top while the rest of the ivys being in the middle with columbia and cornell at the bottom</p>
<p>"lol no offense i think cornell is a great school but that is such an overstatement</p>
<p>im sure many students admitted and enrolled at harvard can graduate at cornell with honors."</p>
<p>that's ********.. I think the difference (at least academically) between harvard acceptees and cornell acceptees is marginal at the best.</p>
<p>"that's ********.. I think the difference (at least academically) between harvard acceptees and cornell acceptees is marginal at the best."</p>
<p>Yeah, it's pretty much marginal. The reason why Cornell has so few honors students is because they have killer curves. </p>
<p>A 3.0 at Cornell is equal to a 3.4 at Harvard during graduate admissions GPA conversions. Cornell and Caltech have the harshest grading in the country, so the GPA always has to be converted up.</p>
<p>If anyone thinks there is a difference between Harvard and Cornell students, then why is there such a gap between Harvard and Stanford honors students?...90% versus 20%....surely Harvard students are not 4X smarter than Stanford students.</p>
<p>BTW, Columbia graduate school is the easiiiiest Ivy to get into. They have 60-80% acceptance rates in many of the grad schools! I was shocked to see that, but it makes sense, since Columbia hires the most graduate students of any school.</p>
<p>I think the better question is "Who in his right mind actually cares?"</p>
<p>Ummm...golubb we are talking undergrad here.</p>
<p>"Ummm...golubb we are talking undergrad here"</p>
<p>Ummm....I was talking about the easiest Ivy to get a degree from.</p>
<p>seriously, though, you have to think about getting IN the school first before thinking about doing well there.. i mean, who cares how easy it is to get an A at harvard if they reject you outright?</p>
<p>I feel out of it. What's SEAS?</p>
<p>Yesterday 07:09 PM
golubb_u BTW, Columbia graduate school is the easiiiiest Ivy to get into. They have 60-80% acceptance rates in many of the grad schools! I was shocked to see that, but it makes sense, since Columbia hires the most graduate students of any school. </p>
<p>I really doubt, Columbia Law, Journalism , Or business school accept 60 to 80% that apply.</p>
<p>Yeah, thanks Ivyleaguer. I decided to check the admissions stats to the big grad schools.</p>
<p>Law- 5.3%
Business- 15%
International and Public Affairs- 26%
Medical- 11.5%
Dental- 18.8%</p>
<p>I am sure that the journalism is extremely low seeing as how it is one of the top ranked journalism grad schools in the country.</p>
<p>So golubb_u, I hope that next time you get your facts straight. Columbia Undergrad as well as Grad schools are some of the toughest around.</p>
<p>but i am sure getting PH.D degree in philosophy or african history would be much easier ;).</p>
<p>what's SEAS?</p>