<p>Seriously guys, what yard stick did you guys use? Can you please publish an article describing the methodology and the scientific basis of your measurement? If not and you guys are just going by subjectively (“I think”, “In my opinion”, “I’d say”, “My thoughts”), don’t try to make up rankings. It does nothing but show your lack of understanding of other schools. Did you attend all of them? How are you pitting Cornell, which has one of the best engineering program in the Ivy League with Harvard, which doesn’t have a good? How are you evaluating UPenn, which has one of the best business school, with Yale which doesn’t even have one?</p>
<p>LOL 18 pages of this crap. All the ivies are good. you will get hired as an undergrad out of any of these schools</p>
<p>If getting a job after graduation is considered then…</p>
<ol>
<li>UPENN because of WHARTON</li>
<li>Maybe Harverd
3-8 all other in no particularly order.
If you need data to support the above, just look up placement survey reports on each college website. Some ivies won’t even publish theirs. worry too many grads can’t find jobs.</li>
</ol>
<p>I think people should look at the Times Higher Education World Rankings. For prestige it ranks the Ivies (in the world)
Havard (1)
Princeton (7)
Yale (9)
Cornell (16)
Penn (22)
Columbia (23)
Brown and Dartmouth do not make the top 100</p>
<p>For top 200 in North America the list is:
Harvard (1)
Princeton (5)
Yale (7)
Cornell (11)
Columbia (14)
Penn (15)
Brown (35)
Dartmouth (57)</p>
<p>Interesting. Maybe Cornell isn’t the ‘worst’ Ivy</p>
<p>Well, I would say:</p>
<p>1 Yale
2 Princeton
3 Harvard
4 Columbia
5 Brown
6 Penn
7 Dartmouth
8 Cornell</p>
<p>This is just by my personal preference though, so… pretty biased.</p>
<p>For quality of the undergraduate experience, with a weighting on academics:</p>
<ol>
<li>Princeton </li>
<li>Yale</li>
<li>Dartmouth / Williams</li>
<li>Harvard / Stanford / Duke / Amherst</li>
<li>Brown / Columbia / Chicago / Swarthmore</li>
<li>Penn / Northwestern / WUStL / Rice</li>
<li>Cornell / Emory / Vanderbilt / Georgetown</li>
</ol>
<p>I’ve added some non-ivies because they are often in the decision set. </p>
<p>This list is influenced by Dad. While I’ll be the “consumer”, he’s the “buyer”.</p>
<p>Rating WUSTL higher than Cornell and Georgetown… what a joke.</p>
<p>I always find it interesting to take a glance of the non-Cornell Ivy boards. Always a lot of misinformed/ignorant folks. All Ivy’s are good in their own right. One shouldn’t pick based on rankings, but rather the best school for their specific interest.</p>
<p>OK first of all more than 95 percent of people on this thread dont even go to an ivy league, nor have ever known someone from an ivy institute …i on the other hand have …both ways, and here is my 2 cents…]
1.) Harvard…the name beats every thing…its history and alumni connect is priceless…and the name is dominant both internationally and domestically. (ROLEX-brand)</p>
<p>2.) Princeton/yale…they have dominated the the elite group for centuries and have a profound research stand in all subject domain. again people jiz their pants when presented with this tag label. (OMEGA-brand level)</p>
<p>3.) cornell…the largest of any ivy institute with more research breakthroughs then upenn, columbia, Dartmouth, and brown combined…this is true with solid evidence to support it. also taken in account is that cornell was the last of all ivy’s to be chartered …and yet it has made up for all that history lost to the other ivy’s. </p>
<p>4.) columbia/ brown…beautiful campuses with down to earth students and faculty’s. the academics are elite in there own fields…and the institutes present a profound impact on history, present and future alike.
5.) Dartmouth/ upenn…the international community doesn’t even consider them an ivy,if some less learned student dont know if its an ivy or not…i personally dont know much about Dartmouth. but upenn is only really know for Wharton…which again is a beautiful undergraduate B program …( i did a tour and jerked off a lot.) but its falling in rankings…dont get all *****y but it really is…i just wanted to point this out because most of the idiots on this thread get their info from online rankings…so ya</p>
<p>so seriously don’t pull bs from your asses or rankings…i am an international student and have studied in every continent with the exception of africa… i am not a academically elite student …low sat’s and all that rock and blues…but…but i am trained in the arts of the streets…i know my informations and the sources very well don’t **** it…
also people think MIT AND STANFORD are ivy’s…( again i fully understand ivy is a sport conference but…seriously no more …not domestically nor internationally …it truly never was…its just the elite schools…</p>
<p>^ I don’t think that I can take…a person who uses…so many dots…seriously…</p>
<p>No body really cares about a person who has posted 990 comments since the fiscal year of 010…seriously either get a job or get laid at the college you are at…no body should have the amount of time you have to post comments…think about it</p>
<p>Inferiority-Complex is very much evident in most of the posts in this thread.</p>
<p>Who Cares ??? Aren’t the all called (( ivy )) , that’s the most important thing , to graduate from an ivy :p</p>
<p>“Fiscal Year '010”?</p>
<p>The revealed Preference ranking (rankin of desireability)</p>
<h1>1 Harvard</h1>
<h1>2 Yale</h1>
<h1>3 Caltech</h1>
<h1>4 MIT</h1>
<h1>5 Stanford</h1>
<p>Billionaire University Ranking</p>
<h1>1 Harvard</h1>
<h1>2 Stanford</h1>
<h1>3 Columbia</h1>
<h1>4 Yale</h1>
<h1>5 Wharton</h1>
<p>The 25 Best Schools for Future Powerbrokers</p>
<h1>1 Harvard</h1>
<h1>2 Yale</h1>
<h1>3 Columbia</h1>
<h1>4 Stanford</h1>
<p>.
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<p>Selectivity Ranking (based on admit rate)</p>
<h1>1 Harvard</h1>
<h1>2 Yale</h1>
<h1>3 Columbia</h1>
<h1>4 Stanford</h1>
<h1>5 Wharton</h1>
<p>Does it really matter?</p>
<p>An ivy league is an ivy league. But, the original “ivy league schools” were four colleges-Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Columbia. Those four schools are essentially on the same level. Thats really all you need to know. The other ivy leagues are just as great schools.</p>
<p>^ There were no original Ivy League schools. In fact if there was an " “original four”, they would have been: Harvard, Yale, UPenn, Princeton, as those four were the first Ivies founded <a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivy_League[/url]”>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivy_League</a></p>