<p>Please give your opinionated ranking of the Ivies in terms of their undergraduate programs. Please don't take their graduate programs into consideration. (When ranking Penn, please separate Wharton from the rest of Penn).</p>
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<p>I'll move this thread to College Search and Selection, where it is much more on-topic.</p>
<p>The OP asked for a ranking of the Ivies. There are eight colleges in the Ivy League. </p>
<p>would you separate the engineering school from cornell or the woodrow wilson school from princeton?? i dont think so. similarily, wharton is only a PART of penn, not vice versa. the fact that business happens to be the area where penn excels at the most does not mean you shouldn't judge penn as a university (especially when there are other academic areas not related to business where the school is also top ranked).
i cant rank the ivies by any means other than what ive heard from a few students, but (from what ive heard), and my own personal preferences:</p>
<ol>
<li>yale, 2.princeton (though i did not apply to either b/c neither new haven nor princeton nj seem like places where i'd enjoy living)...3. harvard (apparently they dont care that much about their undergrads)</li>
<li>penn (most of you will disagree, but with the variety of undergrad and grad schools all located on the same campus, and the ability and encouragement to take classes in all of them, penn offers an undergraduate education with more depth and breath than most other schools. plus you get to not live in the middle of nowhere)
5.columbia, 6. cornell, 7.brown, 8 dartmouth</li>
</ol>
<p>but its not like i know what im talking about at all. for what its worth i also think stanford is better than all the ivies.</p>
<ol>
<li>Princeton</li>
<li>Yale</li>
<li>Brown</li>
<li>Dartmouth</li>
<li>Harvard</li>
<li>Columbia</li>
<li>Penn</li>
<li>Cornell</li>
</ol>
<p>If we are ranking the Ivy's in terms of undergrad programs, I think Dartmouth would be far from the bottom. However, almost needless to say, a ranking in order of prestige would be a bit different.</p>
<p>Rank in terms of quality of undergrad programs (NOT separating Penn from Wharton...I think that's silly):</p>
<ol>
<li>Princeton</li>
<li>Dartmouth</li>
<li>Yale</li>
<li>Brown</li>
<li>Penn</li>
<li>Harvard </li>
<li>Columbia</li>
</ol>
<h2>8. Cornell</h2>
<p>Prestige with emphasis on name recognition/Peer Assessment
1. Harvard
2. Yale Princeton/ Princeton Yale
4. Columbia
5. Cornell
6. Brown
7. Dartmouth
8. Penn</p>