Obviously, all Ivy League schools are prestigious. If you have, say, a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Brown or Princeton, that’ll stick out on a job application and look better than a degree from Penn State in the same field. But people say Cornell is the worst of the Ivy Leagues. Others claim it is the best.
Would you say, overall, that Cornell is the best? Or do other Ivy Leagues speed ahead of it? Thanks!
It really depends on the major you are comparing it with. Engineering wise, Cornell is definitely a top tier ivy, but maybe for liberal arts majors it is not as prestigious as Harvard, Yale, etc…
It is the best if it is your choice!
Cornell is incredibly good, if not the best ivy, for science and engineering, other than the other niche majors (ILR, AEM, Hotel Administration etc.) we’re not that great among the ivies.
@bilnythescoguy Cornell’s non-science Nobel Laureates like Pearl Buck, Wole Soyrinka, Octavio Paz, Toni Morrison, Robery Engle and Amartya Sen… would probably disagree…
There are definitely good programs in various areas of the liberal arts too :english, philosophy, etc. Cornell has many good programs.
Some other schools are harder to get into though, and have a higher proportion of small class sizes.
This thread is really silly and I doubt the OP is serious, but I’ll answer as though it is a serious question. The most common overall perspective of Ivy League rankings of schools overall is that Harvard, Yale and Princeton are the three “best”. Talk about belaboring the obvious . . .
Oh no!! You’ve offended Columbia!!!
Each school stands for different things, and has its own strengths. That is why it is baffling anyone applies to all of them!!
Despite the fact that the post above may appear to contradict my post above that, I couldn’t agree more.
Yes, it’s silly. The best school is what’s best for you, where you will do the hard work, not just expect it all to be the name on the diploma. A degree from Penn State won’t hold you back if you created an expertise and went after the right experiences. (I know, that scares some people, who believe it’s all in the name.)
I think all this mess abut which Ivy is best has more to do with kids who want HYP and consider the others second choices. That doesn’t speak to the quality of the others, rather to the limited thinking of those kids. As if X being your personal second choice means it’s subpar. Geez.
in terms of prestige? no it is not.