<p>isnt bush a yale alum?</p>
<p>Bush went to Yale for undergrad, then went on to Harvard Business School a few years later</p>
<p>Paulson went to Dartmouth and Bernanke went to MIT too. What's your point? </p>
<p>As opposed to McCain warning us? What a ridiculous comment.</p>
<p>ok stay on topic lol-- STEROTYPES!!!!</p>
<p>um, the stereotype for Harvard for me is basically miserable overachievers who do a million things and are super competitive.</p>
<p>harvard-brilliant
Yale-very smart/well rounded and a little artsy
Princeton-elitist
Columbia-political/independent
Penn-professional
Brown- Liberal and artsy
Dartmouth-fratty/old boy network/ focus on business</p>
<p>^lol u forgot cornell...</p>
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<p>haha...great quiz. I'm Cornell...which makes sense...seeing as I'm a Cornell alum :-)</p>
<p>Harvard: quirky brilliance & easy grading
Yale: convential brilliance and regular grading
Princeton: conservative brilliance and hard grading</p>
<h2>Penn-Wharton.. pre-pro, competitive</h2>
<p>the other ones:</p>
<p>Penn: BIG!
Columbia: fantastic at the Ph.D. level, prescriptive undergrad curriculum
Brown: is Brown an Ivy?
Cornell: Huge, prettiest Ivy except for November - March, hard grading
Dartmouth: the LAC of the Ivies. Tight alumni community</p>
<p>omg i got penn for the quiz....that's where i'm EDing...kinda weird</p>
<p>I want to offer support & encouragement to DunninLA for speaking the truth that others are afraid to speak.</p>
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<p>Haha, I actually visited there in the middle of February as a prospective grad student and thought the campus was absolutely beautiful!</p>
<p>(Then again, I love snow and die a little bit on the inside each time the news here talks about "winter thunderstorms".)</p>
<p>Quick FYI - Princeton and Dartmouth aren;t conservative anymore. We're talking about schools where 85% are voting for Obama. Conservative Ivies don't really exist anymore, rather a few (including places like Columbia and Yale) have small vocal conservative populations.</p>
<p>slipper1234 -- that's why they're called Stereotypes LOL</p>
<p>haha dunnila i agree with you, after HYP its not neccesarily worth it to go to an ivy league school over another non-ivy elite (stanford or duke etc can be better picks than non HYP ivies) </p>
<p>do you know which ivies are bigger on what areas of your app, for example i hear dartmouth is big on athletes and brown is big on Ecs whereas Yale is big on Sat scores (not sure how true any of that is lol heard that from a fellow student)</p>
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<p>It happens to the best of us.. On a different note all of the ivies are among the very best schools in the nation...the only schools that you can say are better than the non HYP ones would be Stanford and MIT/Cal Tech for engineering. Its not like Duke is better than Columbia...Some are equal, but it would be very hard to argue that some are absolutely better.</p>
<p>not that duke is necessarily better than columbia, but its in the same class..
you have your ultra elites in HYPS and MIT/CIT and then your elites in the rest of the ivies and Duke and Washu and NW Uchicago JHU....
however, there is debate over the prestige that the non HYP ivies deserve</p>
<p>bumpppppppp</p>
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lets say for the sake of discussion that Duke is equal to those other ivies (which I agree with as many people do), but there is absolutely no way that Wash U, NW, Chicago and JHU are on the same level as the middle group of Ivies. I have a lot of respect for those schools, but the strength of their student bodies, academic programs, coupled with their prestige and financial resources does not put them on par with those ivies (Cornell is debatable for that group...more similarities with Wash U/NW ect..)</p>
<p>Bescraze: You are very wrong & appear to be unduly influenced by stereotypes & labels (as in Ivy League).
Chicago, Northwestern, WashUStL & Johns Hopkins are all outstanding schools. Without listing each school or course of study within these universities that is clearly among the top 5 in the country, just examine the most recently published SAT mid-range for the class of 2011 admitted to each school. I tend to focus on the bottom of the mid-range numbers as these may be the most likely students to enroll as well as the liklihood that classes will be taught at that level. The best students are, in order according to the 25th percentile accepted scores: </p>
<p>Harvard 1400
Yale 1400
Princeton 1390
Pomona 1380
WashUStL 1370
Columbia 1360
Swarthmore 1360
Northwestern 1350
Stanford 1340
Duke 1340
Williams 1340
Chicago 1330
Amherst 1330
Penn 1330
Dartmouth 1330
Brown 1330
Rice 1310
Vassar 1310
Claremont McKenna 1310
Washington & Lee 1310
Reed 1310
Vanderbilt 1300
Georgetown 1300
Emory 1300
Notre Dame 1300
Wellesley 1300
Middlebury 1300
Bowdoin 1300
Wesleyan 1300
Johns Hopkins 1290
Haverford 1290
Carnegie Mellon 1290
Cornell 1290</p>
<p>Ivies hold places 1, 2, 3, tied at 6, tied at 12, tied at 12, tied at 12 & tied at 30.
Wash UStL is #5, Northwestern is #8, Chicago is tied at #12 along with Penn, Dartmouth & Brown
Johns Hopkins is tied at #30 with Cornell.</p>