<p>Can someone tell me which Ivy leagues are the hardest to get into and which are the easiest? I mean hardest is obvious, with harvard, princeton, and yale. But the lower tier is more arguable, what's the concensus?</p>
<p>Harvard
Yale
Princeton
Dartmouth
Princeton
Brown
UPenn
Cornell</p>
<p>it appears that i put Princeton down twice. I am undecided, but I think its a tad easier to get into than Dartmouth.</p>
<p>With a 9% acceptance rate im pretty sure its harder..</p>
<p>Columbia probably goes after Princeton, before Dartmouth...</p>
<p>Yale
Princeton
Harvard
Columbia
UPenn
Brown
Dartmouth
Cornell</p>
<p>I know I might catch flack for the HYP ranking, but I don't think the H-Bomb is quite what it used to be for undergrads.</p>
<p>Here comes the flack! Harvard is clearly #1. In just about every poll.</p>
<p>Harvard
Princeton
Colombia
Yale
Penn
Dartmouth
Brown
Cornell</p>
<p>Um...Brown has a lower acceptance rate than Dartmouth and Penn.
So it should go:</p>
<p>Harvard
Yale
Princeton
Columbia
Brown
Dartmouth
Penn
Cornell</p>
<p>Obligatory link for a thread like this: </p>
<p>Columbia segregates its engineers from its numbers for some unjustifiable bureaucratic reason, with the affect of making look more selective that it should in this company. Penn, Princeton, Dartmouth etc., include their engineers.</p>
<p>Harvard
Princeton and Yale
Brown and Dartmouth
Columbia
Penn
Cornell</p>
<p>Of course all are very selective, and there are a bunch of other schools equally selective.</p>
<p>HPY (I'm not going to play the which is better game)
UPenn
Columbia
Dartmouth/Brown
Cornell</p>
<p>...really?</p>
<p>Actually Dartmouth (13.2%) has a lower acceptance rate than Brown (13.4%). </p>
<p>By acceptance rate:</p>
<p>Harvard
Yale
Princeton
Columbia
Dartmouth
Brown
Penn
Cornell</p>
<p>Who are we to rank these schools? That's a job for a magazine, such as U.S. News & Report, so then people like you can base their college desicions on. </p>
<p>Pathetic!</p>
<p>It also depending on what major you are interested. For exmaple business, Upenn is the best</p>
<p>I find a lot of irony in the fact that in a thread about the Ivy League, one person wrote Princeton twice and forgot Columbia and one person mixed up Col*umbia the university and Colo*mbia the South American country. Also,</p>
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<p>The "unjustifiable bureaucratic reason" is that their engineers attend the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, rather than Columbia College. </p>
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That's a job for a magazine, such as U.S. News & Report, so then people like you can base their college desicions on.
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<p>Even if that made sense, I'd have to disagree. The U.S. News rankings are really weird. According to them Washington U > Cornell > Brown. Hah!</p>
<p>So, my list:</p>
<p>Harvard/Princeton
Yale
Columbia
Penn
Dartmouth
Brown
Cornell</p>
<p>The original post asked which Ivies are hardest & easiest regarding admission. The answer depends on whether or not one is applying ED as , for example, Columbia's ED admission rate is nearly double that of its RD rate of admission.</p>
<p>Here is what I think of the Ivies.</p>
<p>Harvard/Yale
Princeton
Dartmouth
Columbia
Penn/Brown
Cornell</p>
<p>HYP have their own tier.
DCPB have their tier.
Cornell is at the bottom.</p>
<p>i'm pretty sure the only thing everyone will agree on is Cornell is definately last</p>