<p>I was wondering whether universities prefer certain characteristics of students </p>
<p>like</p>
<h2>starting with Ivy League</h2>
<p>I know that like Harvard looks students with open mind with lots of potential who are willing to learn subjects they weren't interested in before. </p>
<p>Whereas Princeton and MIT just looks for purely brillant kids
and Yale is ??? </p>
<p>well I am a Junior and I have just learnt that a huge factor of getting into college is about
whether a certain college finds personality of a particular student fitting into school's interst( of course under the situation that the student's GPA and basic requirements are already made.) </p>
<p>Also do liberal art schools offer better programs for prelaw and like history than big universities </p>
<p>what kind of particular specific characteristics do
U chicago, Northwestern, Stanford, U Penn, Willams , Colombia , brown and other good schools favor? </p>
<p>Ha, one of my good friends (Harvard undergrad - in three years!; Cambridge master’s; now at UCLA as a doctoral candidate - I like to brag about him :D) compared the Ivies to Hogwarts houses (we met through an infamous sorting community on LJ) based on the kinds of students they like to accept and nurture. It’s a quirky way to characterize schools, but it’s good fun.</p>
<p>Harvard is Slytherin, but unfortunately deludes itself into believing its Gryffindor. Yale and Brown are Gryffindor, and he added Berkeley to that roster as well. UChicago and the ITs are Ravenclaw-oriented. He didn’t mention any Hufflepuff-y schools, though, but I dare say women’s colleges probably tend to lean that way.</p>
<p>“Not Harvard? Are you sure? You could be great you know! it’s all here in your head and Harvard can help you on the way to greatness . . . there’s no doubt about that!”</p>
Embrace the green and silver, I say.</p>