<p>How would you place NU against "lower" ivies like Cornell, Brown, Dartmouth, Columbia? Especially for majoring in Econ?</p>
<p>Roughly on the same level.</p>
<p>Dartmouth/Columbia
Northwestern/Brown
Cornell</p>
<p>I agree with the above poster. Northwestern is probably considered slightly below Dartmouth and Columbia, and closer to the level of Brown and Cornell.</p>
<p>In terms of selectivity, NU is slightly higher. In terms of prestige, any ivy has the advantage among the general public because the general public isn't that informed. In terms of quality of education, let try not to split hairs. Next we will be talking about how Harvard is tons better than Yale.</p>
<p>i hate that word who u calling "Lower ivy" Columbia College acceptance rate was 9.6% next to Harvard's 9.1% and yale's 8.6%. How is that lower huh? Columbia is the best among those. Wall street advantage and econ is realyl strong there.</p>
<p>The "lower ivy" term is just meant to distinguish HYP from the other ivies. The 50% SAT Ranges at HYP are 1400-1580. This means that about one out of everyone four people on campus got either a 1600 or 1590. </p>
<p>The %-accepted numbers are not really a good measure of selectivity. If you use that, then the most selective college in the country each year is the Merchant Marine Academy at around 7-8%. Obviously the SAT scores at the Merchant Marine Acacemy are lower than Harvard's.</p>
<p>come on SATs from 1500 1600 mean nothing. 1600 or 1590 what's the big deal with that? people who get into harvard many of them got rejected from columbia and vice versa. So no point in distinguishing lower or upper when obviously there's very little difference.</p>
<p>The difference is in the yield. Harvard's yield is around 80%? Columbia lose a lot of applicants when such applicants have also been accepted to Harvard. Obviously this is true for many Universities but this is why HYP are considered "above" the rest (if even slightly so).</p>
<p>(hint: imiracle is going/got in to columbia :))</p>
<p>AcceptedAlready is right that the most important factor in prestigiousness is yield. I will agree with imiracle's argument that the #10 school is just as good as the #1/2/3 school so long as we can also agree that the #50 school is for all practical purposes just as good as an ivy. I do believe this is true except for a very few careers.</p>