<p>I'm appreciate it if people could rank the ivies
in terms of the order in which they'd want to
attend them assuming you got into all of them
and are 100% you're gonna major in CS. (And no,
I'm not just focused on the ivies)</p>
<p>In my personal opinion: </p>
<p>Harvard – because it’s Harvard. You don’t even have to major in CS to be able to join in the IT industry unless you want to work as a software engineer.</p>
<p>Princeton, Cornell</p>
<p>all the rest should rank equally.</p>
<p>Thx. Any other opinions?</p>
<p>Ranked purely by CS strength, not personal interest:
Cornell
Princeton
Harvard
Brown
Yale
Columbia
Penn
Dartmouth</p>
<p>BTW, this is a dumb question.</p>
<p>i have heard that cornell is the best at engineering (overall) in the ivy league and princeton is second.</p>
<p>but i’m sure most people who got into both would choose princeton because of the prestige, just like they’d probably go to harvard for engineering over cornell</p>
<p>Harvard Princeton and Cornell are the standouts.</p>
<p>Columbia Penn and Brown are in the middle.</p>
<p>[Rankings</a> - Computer Science - Graduate Schools - Education - US News](<a href=“http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-computer-science-schools/rankings]Rankings”>http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-computer-science-schools/rankings)</p>
<p>5.0
Carnegie Mellon, MIT, Berkeley, Stanford</p>
<p>4.6
Cornell</p>
<p>4.4
Princeton</p>
<p>3.9
Harvard, Columbia, Penn</p>
<p>3.7
Yale, Brown</p>
<p>3.1
Dartmouth</p>
<p>Aim for the best schools, and Cornell and Princeton, perhaps. Otherwise, you can expect a job in business, finance, consulting.</p>
<p>
I would never go to Harvard over Cornell for engineering. Harvard doesn’t even have accredited programs in the major engineering disciplines!</p>
<p>Cornell vs. Princeton is much closer, so I could definitely see choosing Princeton in that situation.</p>
<p>^^ CS is a very marketable degree. To get a good, technical job in IT you do not need an undergraduate degree from one of those 6 schools with graduate departments rated 4.4 or above. Yale or Brown will do. Dartmouth will do. Your state university will do. Larry Page and Bill Joy went to Michigan. Sergei Brinn went to Maryland. Marc Andreessen went to Illinois. Go to a school you like and can afford, and that will accept you.</p>
<p>@noimagination: i remember one day i was on the harvard forum and some of the people there (presumably people attending harvard) stated that harvard engineering was better than MIT’s. and then a harvard grad comes in and says that he disagrees, and the next response questions if the guy actually went to harvard. </p>
<p>haha.</p>
<p>I guess it also depends on what aspect of comp sci you’re interested in. For example, if you’re into artificial intelligence, Yale has a great psychology program and Harvard has a strong neurobiology department, both of which could be combined with comp sci.</p>
<p>Go to Stanford for CS. </p>
<p>I don’t understand CollegeConfidential users’ needs to aspire to the Ivy League for everything, especially in subject matters in which they are all downright awful and located nowhere near the industry of interest.</p>
<p>sentiment, Cornell and Princeton are not aweful in CS. They may not be as good as Stanford, but they are still stellar in that field. And Stanford is not alone at the top. Cal, Carnegie Mellon and MIT are just as good as Stanford.</p>