<p>When I visited the Columbia campus, all I saw were oold, mature students. Did anybody else notice the same thing?? It didn't feel ugrad friendly at all, since everyone was so much older than freshers. I think its because they have 24,000 students overall, but they only admit 1k students every year into undergrad...that means the rest are all grad students between 25-35 years old.</p>
<p>Brown was probably the most 'youthful' Ivy that I saw, followed by Cornell.</p>
<p>Dartmouth would be the most youthful I would think. I agree with Columbia, some people in the business school look 40.</p>
<p>If having the oldest students means having the highest percent graduate students, then Harvard has the oldest students.</p>
<p>percent graduate students:</p>
<p>Harvard 71%
Columbia 67%
Yale 53%
U Penn 48%
Cornell and Princeton (tie) 30%
Dartmouth 28%
Brown 25%</p>
<p>The Cornell Ithaca campus might have an even more undergraduate focus than the 30% statistic implies because Cornell's Weill Medical School is located in NYC.</p>
<p>Brown, Dartmouth, Cornell, and Princeton are the Ivys with the strongest undergraduate focus.</p>
<p>Harvard is not 71%, It's more like 50%....Columbia is prolly 80%, and definitely has the highest percent of older graduate students!!</p>
<p>Slipper, when you said some of the Columbia students looked 40, I just cracked up! That's exactly what I saw :0)</p>
<p>You are right. My mistake.
In fall 2003, Harvard had 24,851 total enrollment and 15,137 graduate students (61% not 71%).</p>
<p>Columbia does have the highest proportion of grad students (67%).</p>
<p>May have something to do with the location (Columbia) and the high number of ambitious working professionals looking to further their career.</p>
<p>And to say that Columbia has the least amount of Undergrad focus is actually fairly incorrect. Columbia is the smallest undergrad Ivy and has a 7:1 faculty:student ratio. In fact, the majority of grad students on campus have asked to university to invest more money into the graduate programs because they feel that the undergrads get too much of the attention.</p>
<p>Just because there are a lot of grad students doesn't mean their isn't an emphasis on the undergrad program. In Columbia's case, the undergrads get much more of the attention.</p>
<p>"In Columbia's case, the undergrads get much more of the attention."</p>
<p>....prolly because there are so few of them. Most of the columbia students are older than your regular Ivy admit.</p>