<p>ranks should be destroyed.
colleges should be personally ranked, if you like it than it's #1 for you.</p>
<p>Yessss! The man who rap3s pillows is using his head.</p>
<p>In terms of the USNews "Peer Assessment Score", the rankings are:</p>
<ol>
<li> HYP tied</li>
<li> Columbia</li>
<li> Cornell</li>
<li> Penn</li>
<li> Brown and Dartmouth tied</li>
</ol>
<p>USNews overall score:
1. HP tied
3. Yale
4. Penn
5. Columbia and Dartmouth tied
7. Cornell
8. Brown</p>
<p>The only conistent schools in overall score and Peer Assessment are that H & P are tied for number 1 and Brown is number 8.</p>
<p>US news is just ... crappy. </p>
<p>WUSL, top 10? please...
UC Berkley should be way higher, it's soo far back in comparison. </p>
<p>and can you honestly tell me that Duke and UPenn are better than Stanford and MIT??? Might help that the guy in charge of publishing the rankings is a Wharton grad.</p>
<p>The original post only asks for order of the Ivies. To me, it depends on what your intended major is and what you are looking for in a college.</p>
<p>Personally I shirk at the thought that some kid out there might choose Penn over Brown just because of USNEWS. Even worse, some kid choosing WashU over Brown for that reason!</p>
<p>i know, i'm just throwing in examples of why US news isn't very accurate.</p>
<p>princeton albert einsteinville, harvard for name brand nothing else, yale is bush country and considered snobby.</p>
<p>well guess what everyone</p>
<p>the US NEWS stuff really does matter, without it, Penn would be no where where it is today, and Wash U as well</p>
<p>these schools, especially wash u was not even a tier 1 school 20 years ago, it is b/c of this us news that these schools have become so selective</p>
<p>Many people apply to WUStL because it's unreasonably high up in the US News rankings. Then, once they begin to do some research about the schools they've been accepted to, they realise they'd be better off elsewhere. What does an yield rate of 29% tell you?</p>
<p>yes, i'm sure Penn and WUSL can thank US News for where they are today. Nevermind alumni donations, improving faculty, drawing top students, and placing a greater focus on academics ... without US News, those places would be long gone.</p>
<p>Penn can also thank the Donald now... Cornell seems to be the odd ball in the Ivy's, NOT because it's not a great school, but because they are good in everything (cmon, they even have a hotel administration school). For best overall school in Ivy's, I would put Cornell at #1.</p>
<p>and #1 for quantity of programs available</p>
<p>I wonder if you people would be making the same claims had you gone to HYP...people who go there seem to be saying the exact opposite things that you people are saying.</p>
<p>I think it all boils down to which school you go to. If you go to Cornell, you will say things to boost the image of the school. If you go to what some people call a "top-tier" ivy, or someplace like stanford, MIT, etc., then you will say things to boost the image of that school and perhaps pick on Cornell because of its "high" acceptance rate.</p>
<p>Anyway, I think its pointless to be talking about this topic, since this is on the Cornell board and the majority of the people here are pro-Cornell, thus bound to agree with each other. But to make headway in your arguments, it would be more credible if you posted your arguments on other boards and debated with people from OTHER SCHOOLS. Say what you are saying here, and see what they have to say in response. You have to prove to them through debate that Cornell is as good as you say it is.</p>
<p>Why is it your concern if Cornell students take to a strong appreciation of their school and its programs on their very own Cornell board?</p>
<p>my personal oppinion</p>
<p>Harvard
Yale
Princeton
Columbia
UPenn
Dartmouth
Brown
Cornell</p>
<p>and i am a cornell student</p>
<p>FBI<em>34: Since you recently found out what a "troll" is on the Princeton Boards when you posted with your other screen name CIA</em>34, why are you "trolling" on the Cornell boards? Why would you try to provoke Cornell students to debate this inane topic on other ivy boards?</p>
<p>bball, you couldn't get into any other ivies. </p>
<p>And you've made the statement before that you "want a school with a higher average SAT score and are considering transfering for this very reason." You have your opinions, but in my opinion ... that's retarded.</p>
<p>"I wonder if you people would be making the same claims had you gone to HYP...people who go there seem to be saying the exact opposite things that you people are saying."</p>
<p>If we chose to go to HYP i'm sure it would have been for a certain reason and I'm sure we would have backed that reason up. Dolt! To say that Cornell doesn't have fantastic programs means that the person is either uneducated, in denial, or wants to boost their own ego about their school.</p>
<p>i'm sure FBI would be saying much different thing if he had a shot at Cornell.</p>