<p>Light Airen,
did Cornell reject you recently?</p>
<p>it is safe to assume not one person in the world has had first hand experience taking classes, teaching and doing research at all eight of these schools. So there must be some external criteria to rank them.</p>
<p>Harvard
Yale
Princeton (first three aren’t debatable)
Columbia Brown … are you serious, above Penn? Cornell … you’re joking, right? Cornell is dead last for prestige UPenn … should be above Brown Dartmouth … should be above Cornell</p>
<p>Income:</p>
<p>Harvard
Brown
Cornell
Columbia
UPenn
**Yale
Princeton
Dartmouth </p>
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<li><p>If you think that dated WSJ article based on self-selective reporting of unreliable data has any statistical meaning, you are too trusting in media.</p></li>
<li><p>If you think highest “income-generation” is the goal of higher education, you don’t yet appreciate the goal, or value, of higher education.</p></li>
</ol>
<p>You’re right pbr - I should just drop out of Princeton now. What was I thinking matriculating here? Even though I plan on using my education to do medical research and being involved with health economics and policy? Obviously I should have given my spot to someone more deserving: a liberal arts nut who’ll devote their lives studying the meaning of Gregorian chants and their implications on Western Christianity while making $40k a year at some liberal arts college. I’ll submit my official student termination forms tomorrow. Because I clearly don’t understand the meaning of higher education if I point out flaws in someone else’s bogus income rankings.</p>
<p>IMO, Cornell CAS is as good as Penn CAS, if not better. Cornell ENG is better than Columbia ENG and Yale or Princeton ENG or Penn ENG. Certainly Cornell CALS and Hotel schools are oddities and you can’t compare them with others. So, I am not sure what your ‘subjective opinion’ and your “cornell doesn’t measure up” statement are based upon. I would take Cornell CAS or ENG graduates over the corresponding schools of Brown, Dartmouth, or even Penn. You are Tuft '13, and frankly your school does not measure up to Cornell or any Ivy league schools.</p>