<p>I agree with you on your characterization of the schools. I would say that indeed Dartmouth is Bill Clinton liberal, which personally I find very comfortable. By the way, hello neighbor, I live in morningside heights as well (I guess admissions standards MUST be down at other ivies too, they let both of us in.)</p>
<p>Have you ever read a book by Ann Coulter?</p>
<p>How to talk to a liberal (if you must) is actually pretty witty/humorous.</p>
<p>I like reading her op/ed column, as well. I'm not a raging right winger, but reading extreme people (her, Ted Rall, etc) is more amusing than centrists.</p>
<p>As someone who spent the day in New Hampshire on election day this year, I think it's pretty off to call NH a "red state". At the most, it's purple. But, really, all of the Ivies live in a blue region and a blue world, so we don't care about any of the dummies in backwards Kansas and Nebraska, gosh.</p>
<p>Anyways, I'd say:</p>
<p>Brown
Yale, Harvard
Columbia
Penn
Cornell
Princeton/Dartmouth</p>
<p>Penn and Cornell are both in really liberal areas (as are Brown, Harvard, and Columbia). Princeton and Dartmouth, not so much.</p>
<p>MgoBlue,</p>
<p>if you mean AC is funny like the Three Stooges funny, who knows? If you mean good political humor.........you need to get up to the library, before the lowest common denominator gets any lower:confused:</p>
<p>Slipper,</p>
<p>I never lived in Morningside Heights, even when I was getting my masters...though its a great area (be careful not to venture up too many blocks north though...lol). Since after my undergrad days at NYU, I've been more of a Soho and Upper East Side guy. For some reason, I was under the impression you went to Dartmouth since you talked of your liberal friends there. </p>
<p>And yes, I've read Coulter..so what..she falls to the right and has her biases...it frankly isn't any different from reading Paul Krugman these days.</p>
<p>I did actually, I am in grad school at Columbia.</p>
<p>"I did actually, I am in grad school at Columbia."</p>
<p>Oh okay.</p>
<p>"admissions standards MUST be down at other ivies too, they let both of us in."</p>
<p>I'll drink to that when I hit up the NY bars soon tonight.</p>
<p>I have experience with most of the schools, and the most accurate ranking from most liberal to most "conservative" (meaning least liberal) are:</p>
<ol>
<li>Brown</li>
<li>Columbia</li>
<li>Harvard</li>
<li>Yale</li>
<li>Penn</li>
<li>Cornell</li>
<li>Dartmouth/Princeton (Princetons demographics are changing rapidly so I wouldn't be shocked to see Princeton outranking Yale on this list very soon)</li>
</ol>
<p>Brown is more of a crunchy/alternative liberalism, Columbia more of an NYC chic liberalism, Harvard more of a self conscious, I have to save the world liberalism, and Yale more of a stuffy elitist Northeastern liberalism, the rest are just regular college liberal.</p>
<p>Ann coulter's a Cornell grad, I think.</p>
<p>Cornell --> Michigan Law</p>
<p>She's fun to read. She gets a lot of stuff right on, but a lot of stuff dead wrong, as well.</p>