Ivy Pecking Order

College Search & Selection
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<p>How would you rank them? (On prestige)
Not that anyone should base their decisions on this, but still, it’s interesting)</p>

<li>Harvard</li>
<li>Yale</li>
<li><p>Princeton</p></li>
<li><p>Columbia</p></li>
<li><p>Dartmouth</p></li>
<li><p>Brown</p></li>
<li><p>Penn</p></li>
<li><p>Cornell</p></li>
</ol>

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<p>...and that's all you need to know?</p>

<p>**** prestige, I want an education that's quirky, radical and theoretical enough for me to thrive and excel in. If Harvard can't do that for you, the brand name means next to nothing.</p>

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<p>^Read my post. I said it's not important, but it's still something to think about.</p>

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<p>If it's not important, why should it be thought about? These posts crop up constantly and accomplish absolutely nothing.</p>

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<p>HYP.... the rest.</p>

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<p>I agree with the OP's list...</p>

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<p>Any kind of ranking of Ivy League schools you can think of has already been done. Use the search function.</p>

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<p>I rank Ivy prestige like this:
1. Cornell
2. Princeton
3. Penn
4. Columbia
5. Dartmouth
6. Brown
7. Yale
8. Harvard</p>

<p>[engineering prestige, that is]</p>

9

<p>This has been a let down so far.</p>

<p>I expected WWIII in here by now.</p>

10

<p>How I thought when I was applying:
Harvard
Yale
Princeton</p>

<p>Dartmouth
Brown
Cornell
Columbia
Penn</p>

<p>City schools were out of vogue then, and the Penn acceptance rate was in the mid 40% range.</p>

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<p>psh...</p>

<ol>
<li>Princeton</li>
<li>Penn</li>
<li>...</li>
</ol>

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<p>Princeton
Harvard
Columbia
Yale
Dartmouth
Brown
Penn
Cornell</p>

<p>That's how it always was in my house growing up. Dartmouth wasn't prestigious for its academics around here though. Basically, animal house is one of my dad's favorite movies.</p>

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<p>Stanford
MIT
Caltech
Berkeley
Duke
Northwestern
UChicago
JHU
Rice
...</p>

<p>Who needs the Ivy League? ;)</p>

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<p>I agree with OP, but I'd put Cornell a little higher.</p>

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<p>Duke
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Alabama State
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Ivies (<a href="http://www.safetyschool.org%5B/url%5D"&gt;www.safetyschool.org&lt;/a>, <a href="http://www.gradeinflation.org%5B/url%5D"&gt;www.gradeinflation.org&lt;/a&gt;)
Berkeley (<a href="http://www.crappyschool.com%5B/url%5D"&gt;www.crappyschool.com&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p>

<p>That looks about right. :D</p>

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<p>Ranking from top to bottom (the school on the top line is the best and then each school that's on a lower line is one spot worse) - </p>

<p>Brown Columbia Cornell Dartmouth Harvard Penn Princeton Yale</p>

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<p>^True. /*******/</p>

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<p>Harvard/ Yale/ Princeton</p>

<p>Columbia/ Dartmouth/ Penn/ Brown</p>

<p>Cornell</p>

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<p>Harvard/Yale/Princeton
Columbia/Dartmouth
Penn/Brown/Cornell</p>

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<p>I agree with slipper's list above. </p>

<p>My perception is that there is a lot of reflected glory from HYP to the others. A question I frequently wonder about is how well would the lower Ivies be considered or ranked if they were NOT in the Ivy League. For example, would Brown or Cornell or even Penn be popular with applicants or academics or the media if they were part of the ACC (like Duke) or the Big 10 (like Northwestern) or the SEC (like Vanderbilt) or the Pacific 10 (like Stanford)?</p>