<p>LOL, I’m a Yalie, but also a Brown reject! There is no “most prestigious” Ivy, and the fact that you would insinuate that is hilarious. There IS a most obnoxious Ivy, though. Harvard.</p>
<p>^^lol, says a Yalie! (the harvard thing) </p>
<p>but yes, you are exactly right.</p>
<p>I’m sick of people saying “the Ivy League is an athletic conference, quit making anything of it.” Those people are in denial. Sure, it IS an athletic conference, but the name Ivy League has clearly taken on a whole new meaning and I don’t get the point in denying it.</p>
<p>And they’re all prestigious. I see no major distinctions. If you told someone you went to any of them, they’d say “wow that’s a great school!” I guess the one they’d least likely have heard of would either be Brown or Cornell, depending on where the person is from.</p>
<p>It’s a sports league , people. That’s all.</p>
<p>Yes. All the Ivies are of course well known, but…
I would say</p>
<p>HYP
Upenn (wharton) / Columbia
Cornell (engineering)
Brown/Dartmouth</p>
<p>It depends:</p>
<p>People who matter:
Harvard, Yale, Princeton
Columbia, Dartmouth, Penn, Brown
Cornell</p>
<p>Grad schools:
Harvard, Yale
Princeton
Dartmouth, Brown
Columbia, Penn
Cornell</p>
<p>Internationals (that seems so irrelevant to me)
Harvard
Yale
Princeton
Columbia, Penn
Cornell
Brown, Dartmouth</p>
<p>Business/ Consulting/ Wall Street
Harvard, Princeton
Dartmouth, Yale
Columbia
Brown, Cornell</p>
<p>I would put Brown lower for grad schools (although that’s so heterogeneous anyway) and considerably higher for business/consulting.</p>
<p>No way mgcinc. Admitone is right. Brown does incredibly well in graduate placement (look up Harvard Law, Yale Law, Wharton, etc). But its not as strong a target for banks and consulting firms as Columbia or Dartmouth.</p>
<p>Ah, I had misunderstood, I didn’t understand that it was in terms of grad school placement. (I’m at one of the schools you mentioned now 
)</p>
<p>I still maintain that Brown places at financial and consulting firms along with the best of them.</p>
<p>admitone, you left off the most obvious school for business/consulting/Wall Street.</p>
<p>I would say: if you go into any of the Ivies, you’ve got enough prestige.</p>
<p>But the important thing is that you are studying the strongest program is the Ivy you attend.</p>
<p>For EX: if you go to Upenn, then study business in warton.
if you go to MIT（not Ivy, but close), then study engineering
if you go to Harvard, study some social science
if you go to Columbia, study financial engineering…
if you go to Ivy x, the study the best program in your Ivy x,and you will be fine in your future career.</p>
<p>P.S I am an intl student from Hong Kong,China ,currently attending Columbia.</p>
<p>The “Ivies” are an arbitrary distinction, some are tops, some are top 20 schools (also good, however). As undergraduate education goes (i.e. not professional or graduate school), tiers may be more useful in terms of true academic prestige, e.g.:
1- Swarthmore, Amherst, Williams, HYP, MIT, Cal Tech,U. Chicago, Stanford, Pomona
2- Columbia, Dartmouth, Cornell, Penn, Carlton, Wesleyan, Haverford, Duke</p>
<p>etc. Any ranking system is arbitrary, but lumping the Ivies as a breed apart is pretty unsophisticated.</p>
<p>Before reading this, I thought Jerry Springer was funny.
Now, JS has nothing on this thread Haha.</p>
<p>On a serious note, whoever thinks UPenn is higher than Brown must be tripping balls.</p>
<p>
</p>
<p>Or doing recruiting.</p>
<p>Signed,
a recruiter</p>
<p>Kiff story</p>
<p>Wow!! Not sure how I stumbled upon this thread, but some of these posts leave me pleased with the choice I made.</p>
<p>By acceptance rate, Brown would be 5th among the Ivies. Check out</p>
<p>[url=<a href=“http://satscores.us/sat_scores.asp]SATSCORES[/url”>http://satscores.us/sat_scores.asp]SATSCORES[/url</a>]</p>
<p>Brown is just below Columbia and above Dartmouth–but who cares.</p>
<p>I always thought that Brown students had the reputation for being the</p>
<ul>
<li>most down-to-earth</li>
<li>happiest</li>
<li>hippiest</li>
<li>most liberal</li>
</ul>
<p>among the Ivy leaguers.</p>
<p>Wow! That was fun! Let’s try a new question!</p>
<p>Which has the least prestige: the Nobel Prize in Physics, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, or the Nobel Prize in Medicine?</p>