Official IVIES thread

Applying to College
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<p>Many people are choosing a large variety of different schools. To help others understand why, perhaps we could put down some of our thoughts on the schools. I'll start:</p>

<p>Harvard-Amazing school with the cream of the crop. The best name recognition (useful in the job market). The campus is less inclusive than others and more spread out. Graduate-student focused.</p>

<p>Yale-Middle of the top three ivies. New Haven is gloomy, but Yale has a wonderfully close knit and safe campus. Good name recongition and reputation, and a high level of students surpassed by none.</p>

<p>Princeton- Undergraduate school. Beatiful town and campus. Close knit community. Preppy attitude can sometime prevail.</p>

<p>Dartmouth- Beatiful campus whose location incourages the college community spirit and is close enough to Boston. Great acedemics and undergrad focus (perhaps the most). More on campus drinking and partying by frats and sorieties than most Ivies. Has the wonderful D-Plan ( <a href="http://www.dartmouth.edu/%7Einterviewers/useful/d_plan.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.dartmouth.edu/~interviewers/useful/d_plan.html&lt;/a> ).</p>

<p>Brown: Small, inclusive campus that is near a relatively large city but in a good neighborhood. Flexible acedemics. More understanding of extenuating circumstances (previous problems or issues that may turn off other colleges) than most schools. Medium name recognition for an IVY.</p>

<p>Columbia: New York, New York, New York. The city the the defining point of Columbia. Has the most urban setting and possibilities. Has a campus (unlike NYU) with a quad, but still blends in to the surrounding city-area. Becoming one of the most popular Ivies because of location.</p>

<p>Penn: Large schools with a less rigourous (for the Ivies) curriculum. In an "interesting" section of Philidelphia (those who have visited, please say more) with urban activities close by. Good as a pre-professional Ivy.</p>

<p>Cornell: Large ivy that is easiest to get in to (haha, like any are easy). Also pre-professional, and more of the western ivy in the East.</p>

<p>Non-Traditional:</p>

<p>Stanford: On par with HYP. Has a Western menality (near the Pacific Ocean, duh) that has more of a practical education compared to the education that men such as John Adams recieved at Harvard (more formal, less practically useful). Medium size and an amazing science research facility. Best weather of schools on the list.</p>

<p>UVA: Known for Jefferson and Law School, is a good bet for an easier school to get in to.</p>

<p>Gerogetown: Perfect school for politics, government, international relations, etc. DC location makes it perfect for internships and experience. Becoming very competative to get in to.</p>

<p>Duke: While it is known for Basketball, it also has amazing acedemics. Premier University located south of Virginia and West of California. Difficult to get in to.</p>

<p>These are some of my basic ideas. Other replies can be much shorter. I will apologize up front for any basic assumptions or mistakes that I have made, but I am just trying to get my feelings out there. Please, challenge them.</p>

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<p>Brown: open curriculum, "quirky" students (comparitively speaking), laid-back atmosphere.</p>

<p>As to middle name recognition, no one in my area even knows what it is. I say, "Brown." They say, "What's that?"</p>

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<p>I applied early decision to UVA and got in. :D Hence no more applications anywhere else.</p>

<p>Does anybody know the full list of 'public ivies'? This keeps popping up (for me, at least) and from what I can see, it includes UVA and WM. But what else? Surely Berkeley and UCLA as well?</p>

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<p>discombobulated-there's no offical "public ivy" list. I know Miami of Ohio claims to be one though.</p>

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<p><does anybody="" know="" the="" full="" list="" of="" 'public="" ivies'?="">
why don't we make our own?<br>
1. UVA
2. UNC-Chapel Hill
3. William and Mary
4. UC-Berkely
5. UCLA
you guys add on</does></p>

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<p>yeah miami of ohio is one, my teacher went there and that is what he called it</p>

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<p>Top Public Schools:</p>

<h1>1 Cal-Berkeley</h1>

<h1>2 Michigan-Ann Arbor</h1>

<h1>3 UVA</h1>

<h1>4 UCLA</h1>

<h1>5 Wiscinson-Madison</h1>

<h1>6 UNC-Chapel Hill</h1>

<h1>7 UT-Austin</h1>

<h1>8 Illinois-Urbana Champaign</h1>

<h1>9 William and Mary</h1>

<h1>10 Washington-Seattle</h1>

<p>Other excellent State Universities:
Georgia Tech
Indiana-Bloomington
Maryland-College Park
Minnesota-Twin Cities
PSU
UCSD</p>

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<p>harvard (EA), Brown, Columbia, and UPenn</p>

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<p>Question: why is it unless you graduated from Princeton, Harvard or Yale, and maybe with the exception of Columbia you generally tell people your're an Ivy league graduate rather than saying your specific school. For example why do people who graduate from Brown say they are Ivy League graduates rather than just Brown graduates. Harvard graduates say they graduate from Harvard not that they are Ivy League graduates.</p>

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<p>I am not sure I know what you are saying. I have known many Brown, Cornell, Dartmouth and Penn graduates, and they always say they are graduates of their respective schools.</p>

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<p>yeah, they def say where they graduated from... my neighbor is a grad of brown</p>

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<p>I applied to Georgetown EA, then (regardless of the decision) Stanford, Columbia, Brown, Yale and possibly Penn.</p>

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<p>wow...this thread is growing!</p>

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<p>I applied EA to stanford, and am applying to columbia, mit, penn, berkeley, university of michigan</p>

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<p>blah...i REALLY need some way to get my mind off College Admissions...all this excessive worrying (and time on CC) is definately not helping =/ ...any ideas?</p>

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<p>Hey everyone, back from Thanksgiving with the family. Oh man, it's so boring in western Maryland.</p>

<p>I'm going to send my Harvard, Dartmouth and Swarthmore apps off this week. Yay! It will feel like this huge burden, lifted from me.</p>

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<p>"Cornell: Large ivy that is easiest to get in to " ...and hardest to get out of (as in graduate)...hehe</p>

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<p>Suicide gorge anybody?</p>

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<p>I've never heard of it, Rabo, but going to biology tomorrow is making it sound tempting. I just don't like this class.</p>

<p>I wish I would have applied ED/EA somewhere, but since I still don't know to which school I would have done it, it reminds me why I didn't.</p>

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<p>lol, willywonka...i think that's why most GC's don't approve of EA/ED
rabo, do you want to start one? Please consider the potential newspaper headlines if we do: Online Forum Discontinued Because of Possibility that All Users Murdered Selves</p>