<p>Is it as hard to get into Northwestern as it is to get into Penn/Columbia/Cornell ?</p>
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<p>I thought the objective of this game was to match each Ivy to one or more less selective alternatives that share some salient common feature(s). My examples:</p>
<p>Harvard-Georgetown-NYU (the urban ambiance of Cambridge Mass).
Columbia-Chicago-Reed (scholarly atmosphere emphasizing a classical “core”)
Penn-Hopkins-CarnegieMellon (liberal arts combined with strong pre-professional education, in an urban setting)
Brown-Wesleyan-Hampshire (liberal atmosphere, open curriculum)
Dartmouth-Middlebury-Colorado College/Whitman (small size, rural, good outdoor programs)
Cornell-Northwestern-Tulane (liberal arts combined with strong pre-professional training)</p>
<p>As for Yale and Princeton, I find myself grasping to identify the features and less selective schools that share them.</p>
<p>awesome thread 
k, so i have a random question…can any one think of “match-ups” for occidental & pitzer. or even just, like, point out a couple of differences between them. i feel like i should take one off my list but i don’t know which one :(</p>
<p>Princeton (less selective versions)- Vanderbilt, Davidson, and Duke…albeit all are less Northeast/liberal than princeton.</p>
<p>I don’t think the fact that one is a university and the other is an LAC is a reason for them to not be “connected.” I don’t see the connections much dependent on size as on vibe, urban/suburban/rural, political leanings, prominent departments, even architecture. In fact, some of the closest matchups seem to be ones where one is sort of a miniature version of the other.</p>
<p>U Penn-- Northwestern</p>
<p>Princeton–UVA
Cornell–UNC Chapel Hill
Columbia–Chicago
Swarthmore–Reed</p>
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<p>Almost, but not quite.</p>
<p>Yeah, while NWU is just as strong of a university as Penn, it’s not quite as hard to gain admission there for undergrad.</p>
<p>Harvard - JHU(urban, competitive, fairly large)
Princeton - Duke
Yale - Rice
Penn - Michigan
Columbia - NYU(location) or Chicago(big city, core)
Dartmouth - Colgate or Middlebury
Brown - Wesleyan
Cornell - University of Illinois</p>
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<p>And they both have two n’s and an o in the name as well. Sorry, I don’t see this similarity at all. </p>
<p>I think Northwestern and Penn have a lot of similarities in terms of the overall feel of the student body, and I suspect Northwestern has a different set of similarities to Cornell from what I’ve read on CC.</p>
<p>Harvard - Amherst, Carleton, Pomona, UCal Berkeley
Yale - Duke, Rice
Princeton - Stanford, WUStL
Dartmouth - Williams, Middlebury, Bowdoin, Colgate
Brown - Wesleyan, Grinnell, Oberlin, Vassar
Columbia - UChicago, Reed
Penn - Northwestern, Vanderbilt, Tufts, Case-Western
Cornell - JHU, Michigan, Carnegie Mellon</p>
<p>MIT - CalTech, Illinois
Stanford - Duke, WUStL, Pomona</p>
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Oh wow, my original list I compared two Ivy Leagues towards each other. I knew there was one missing, but got thrown off by this website:[Ivy</a> League Universities](<a href=“http://www.miskatonic.net/university/ivy.html]Ivy”>http://www.miskatonic.net/university/ivy.html)
Ofcourse I wouldn’t forget Cornell, actually when I first listed the school on my potential list I didn’t know it was a Ivy League, when I found that out I knew it was near impossible to be lsited.</p>
<p>Cornell- University of Michigan- Ann Arbor
Brown- Massachuettes Institute of Technology
Columbia- University of California- Los Angeles
Dartmouth- University of Virginia
Harvard- Stanford University
Pennslyvania- Washington University in St. Louis
Princeton- Duke University
Yale- University of Chicago</p>
<p>knew there was one missing, but got thrown off by this website:Ivy League Universities
Ofcourse I wouldn’t forget Cornell"</p>
<p>I’m hoping you know that Miskatonic University is a joke?</p>
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<p>Yikes, I don’t think Duke and WUSTL are <em>anything</em> alike. Both a smart student body, but the overall types of students who seem to go to each seem very different to me.</p>
<p>@dyingtoknow:
Northwestern is just as hard to get into as Cornell, but Penn and Columbia are more selective.</p>
<p>I’m surprised that not many people are linking Rice to Stanford. Rice is the epitome of the less selective version of Stanford… many other Rice students who also applied to Stanford believe it is a “mini-Stanford.” Both schools have laid-back, down-to-earth, less pretentious students. They both are located near urban areas with nice weather. They both are known for their engineering and science departments although liberal arts departments are strong at both schools. Both have similar Spanish architecture. And, of course, both have palm trees. Sure, Rice is small compared to Stanford, but that is why I call it a “mini-Stanford.” By the way, I spent considerable time at both campuses (I was at Stanford for 4 weeks during a summer), so I feel I am entitled to say this.</p>
<p>Personally, I feel that Rice shares more similarities with Stanford than to Yale, but it still is similar to Yale as well.</p>
<p>^ well the name of the thread is “If you like this IVY, you might like…”</p>
<p>^ Yes I am aware of the title… but people are still listing alternatives for Stanford, Duke, MIT, and UChicago as well.</p>
<p>Pizzagirl, suppose you like cold weather, interesting major cities, and bigtime football and basketball. You also think the folks on both coasts are pretentious. You don’t have the grades for Northwestern. Where are you going to apply?</p>
<p>Davidson: Wake Forest
West Point: VMI/Citadel
Naval Academy: Coast Guard Academy</p>
<p>Dartmouth - Middlebury
Middlebury - Claremont McKenna
Claremont McKenna - Occidental
Northwestern - Michigan
Cornell - McGill
Harvard - Stanford
Williams - Pomona
Middlebury - Richmond</p>