<p>I know there are a few here but they seem from a few years back. Also I know the concept might be a bit silly but just curious to see what the current perception is.</p>
<p>Ranked for what?</p>
<p>If you are trying to figure out which is “best” and so on, stop. It’s such an abstract idea that it cannot be answered.</p>
<p>With some research you can read which students report being happiest, which graduates earn the most money, which school admits the lowest percentage of applicants, and so on. But the value of those numbers is still fairly limited.</p>
<p>i think it is a silly and trite subject but I ll give my two cents. </p>
<p>I will give the order of the schools and the space between every school is commensurate to the difference (my personal opinion of course) between the schools. This a purely subjective conclusion formed by the parchment rankings, us news rankings, general perception of prestige, reports on quality of differnt departments, the opinions i have of people around me and of the press.</p>
<p>Again, I am not claiming that this is an accurate ranking or has any real value or whatever. It just shows what the pecking order (whatever little meaning this phrase even has…) is in my mind. </p>
<p>I am too lazy too give my reasoning for the rankings, it would take a couple of pages to explain.</p>
<ol>
<li>Harvard</li>
<li>Princeton</li>
</ol>
<p>3.Yale</p>
<p>4.Penn, Columbia</p>
<p>5.Dartmouth</p>
<p>6.Brown</p>
<ol>
<li>Cornell</li>
</ol>
<p>(I applied to all the ivies apart from Yale and was accepted to Penn, Columbia, Dartmouth, Brown and Cornell)</p>