<ol>
<li>Princeton (the best undergrad program IMO ... and the world's most gorgeous campus)</li>
<li>Yale (...but New Haven what a s_hithole)</li>
<li>Harvard (IMO #1 for grad school > undergrad)</li>
<li>Brown (seems to combine a good mix of things)</li>
<li>Columbia (... borders Harlem...are you packing heat?)</li>
<li>UPenn (yet another wonderful inner city-like atmosphere)</li>
<li>Dartmouth (cabin fever anyone?)<br></li>
<li>Cornell (just shoot me please)</li>
</ol>
<p>JohnnyK says,</p>
<p>FountainSiren: I'm not a Princeton student.</p>
<p>Life, they say, is full of disappointments </p>
<ol>
<li>Columbia</li>
<li>Princeton</li>
<li>Yale</li>
<li>Harvard</li>
<li>Dartmouth</li>
<li>Brown</li>
<li>UPenn</li>
<li>Cornell</li>
</ol>
<p>Wow, Dartmouth's really popular, I can see it topping lots of lists...</p>
<p>updated average ranking
16 more rankings added from preparent up to and including bmelanie
number of rankings = 74
number of rankings = 73 for Columbia, Yale, Penn, and Dartmouth</p>
<p>Princeton 3.08
Yale 3.81
Harvard 4.46
U Penn 4.64
Brown 4.85
Dartmouth 4.88
Cornell 4.89
Columbia 5.03</p>
<p>As an aside, of the Ivy League schools Dartmouth is by far the smallest, in fact, it is often as likely to be compared to a Liberal Arts School as a University and UPenn and Cornell are by far the largest. Undoubtedly, many posting here are posting according to the school they attend or a school in which they have friends or family who attend. That is, the voting is skewered by the populations of the schools and of those ranking, we are likely to see a skewering toward the schools most loved by nerds (you CC vets) which may or may not be the same as all Ivy students or wannabe-Ivies in general.</p>
<p>1Dartmouth
2Yale
3Harvard
4Princeton
5Columbia
6Brown
7UPenn
8Cornell</p>
<p>really simple for me
1. Columbia!(ED)
2. Harvard(RD)
3. Princeton
4.Yale
5. Dartmouth
6.UPenn
7.Cornell
8.Brown(i really don't like the school for some reason)</p>
<p>I'm only applying to Columbia and Harvard because i don't find any other ones really appealing.</p>
<ol>
<li>brown (open curriculum, cool & interesting student body)</li>
<li>yale </li>
<li>harvard</li>
<li>princeton</li>
<li>columbia</li>
<li>dartmouth</li>
<li>cornell</li>
<li>penn</li>
</ol>
<ol>
<li>brown</li>
<li>dartmouth</li>
<li>columbia</li>
<li>penn</li>
<li>princeton</li>
<li>harvard</li>
<li>cornell</li>
<li>yale</li>
</ol>
<ol>
<li>Dartmouth</li>
<li>Princeton</li>
<li>Harvard</li>
<li>Cornell</li>
<li>Yale</li>
<li>Penn</li>
<li>Columbia </li>
<li>Brown</li>
</ol>
<p>
[quote]
a lot of med schools won't take many students out of Harvard for instance b/c of grad inflation.
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</p>
<p>I would like to know exactly which med-schools you are referring to. At almost every med-school, Harvard grads are greatly overrepresented, relative to their population. I am also unaware of med-schools discriminating against any school for grade inflation. If anything, they actually FAVOR schools that practice grade inflation. Go ask the MIT premeds.</p>
<p>Not Michigan medical school that's for sure. Harvard students make up the second largest group at Michigan medical school (obviously, Michigan students make up the largest group). I would be seriously shocked if Harvard students were not given preferential treatment at most graduate programs.</p>
<p>
[quote]
As an aside, of the Ivy League schools Dartmouth is by far the smallest, in fact, it is often as likely to be compared to a Liberal Arts School as a University and UPenn and Cornell are by far the largest
[/quote]
</p>
<p>Dartmouth the smallest? Yes. By far the smallest? I think that's too strong. Dartmouth has 4100 undergrads and 5700 total students, whereas Princeton has 4600 undergrads and 6600 total students. Doesn't seem like that big of a difference to me.</p>
<p>Lots of Harvard grads goes to medical school. They must be getting in somewhere, besides Harvard med of course.</p>
<p>If you include graduate and professional students, Harvard and Columbia are also very large.</p>
<p>Harvard 24,648 total students
Columbia 21,648</p>
<p>Penn 23,305
Cornell 19,518 </p>
<p>Brown, Dartmouth and Princeton have the highest ratios of undergrads to total students.</p>
<p>
[quote]
Harvard 24,648 total students
[/quote]
</p>
<p>Where do you get this number from? The official Harvard number is 19731.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.news.harvard.edu/glance/%5B/url%5D">http://www.news.harvard.edu/glance/</a></p>
<p>Harvard
Penn
Princeton
Columbia
Dartmouth
Yale</p>
<p>I could care less about Brown and Cornell.</p>
<p>IPEDS COOL, as reported by Harvard to the feds.</p>
<ol>
<li>Yale</li>
<li>Columbia</li>
<li>Princeton</li>
<li>Dartmouth</li>
<li>Brown</li>
<li>UPenn</li>
<li>Harvard</li>
<li>Cornell</li>
</ol>
<p>
[quote]
IPEDS COOL, as reported by Harvard to the feds.
[/quote]
</p>
<p>Well, there's arguably something wrong, as the 2 numbers don't match. Somebody's lying.</p>
<p>The IPEDS figures are probably old as those are updated late and usually lag a year behind. But then again, that's quite a huge difference. Maybe one includes executive education or something like that?</p>