<p>I keep hearing that each Ivy League university has a different "personality" and style, but no one ever really mentions what exactly they are.</p>
<p>What are the respective "personalities" of each Ivy League university in terms of academics?</p>
<p>I’ll give an outsider’s general view:</p>
<p>Harvard: top-notch graduate focus academics
Princeton: undergraduate focus + research academics
Yale: humanities academics
Dartmouth: tight knit community academics
Cornell: engineering academics
Brown: open system academics
Columbia: NYC playground academics
Penn: pre-professional social academics</p>
<p>Harvard: the best, graduate focus, academics
Princeton: undergraduate focus, eating clubs, academics
Yale: humanities, law, residential college
Dartmouth: tight small community, undergraduate focus, rural
Cornell: engineering, hotel school, land-grant, rural
Brown: open curriculum
Columbia: NYC, graduate focus
Penn: social, pre-professional, wharton</p>
<p>Harvard: Smugness masking a deep depression
Yale: Smugness masking…well, deep smugness
Princeton: Country club, pampered environment makes them a bit “soft”
Columbia: self-proclaimed “New Yorkers,” highly absorbed in themselves and yet absorbed in the goings-on of the world (of which NYC is the capital)
Penn: rough-around-the-edges, social, “I’ll show them!” inferiority complex makes for both ambition and annoyance
Brown: hippies
Dartmouth: drinking, tight community, fancying themselves as outdoorsy
Cornell: big, red</p>
<p>Haha.</p>
<p>10char</p>
<p>Harvard: “We’re the best”
Yale: “We’re as good as Harvard”
Princeton: “We’re as good as Harvard and Yale”
Penn: “We’re as good as Princeton”
Columbia: “We’re the best because of NYC”
Dartmouth: “We’'re the best drunks”
Brown: “We’re above being better than all of you”
Cornell: “We’re good enough to belong”</p>
<p>Harvard: Everyone wants to be us.
Yale: We don’t want to be Harvard, but we’re better.
Princeton: We’re already better than Harvard, so who cares? Har-who?
Columbia: NYC is all that matters
UPenn: I wish I was in NYC…Wall street to be exact.
Cornell: I wish I was Harvard…but actually…I like myself…I do…I really do.
Dartmouth: I"m too drunk to think.
Brown: Let’s all get along! take it easy! Chill!</p>
<p>If you asked them each out on a date:</p>
<p>Harvard would look you up and down, smirk, and go back to his drink.</p>
<p>Yale would tell you unconvincingly, “Oh yeah, we should def. hang out sometime” and then laugh about it with his friends.</p>
<p>Princeton would lie and pretend he was already there with someone.</p>
<p>Columbia would give you his phone number… But never pick up.</p>
<p>Brown might buy you a drink, anyway. </p>
<p>Cornell would maybe make the effort to have a conversation, but he’d be watching the football game on the TV behind the bar.</p>
<p>Dartmouth would accept, but make you pay.</p>
<p>Penn would give you his phone number, wiggle his eyebrows at you, and then go back to whatever he was doing. And you’d be like… What.</p>
<p>–</p>
<p>oh I amuse myself.</p>
<p>Harvard: “We think we are, as the world always agrees with us, the best”
Yale: “We’re better than Harvard, but who care?”
Princeton: “We’re more elite than Harvard and Yale”
Penn: “We’re ready in Wall Street”
Columbia: “We’re in NYC but not Harlem”
Dartmouth: “We’'re more drunks than Animal House”
Brown: “Chill”
Cornell: “Why are we in the Ivy league?”</p>
<p>Q: How many Harvard students does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A: 2. One to hold the light bulb and the other to screw the world around it.</p>
<p>Q: How many Princeton students does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A: 2. One to mix the martinis and the other to call a handyman.</p>
<p>Q: How many Brown students does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A: 10. One to actually do it and the 9 others to discuss the experience with him/her.</p>
<p>Q: How many Cornell students does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A: Wait- I thought we were making Ivy League jokes…</p>
<p>^Slightly different version than above</p>
<ol>
<li><p>How many Princeton students does it take to change a lightbulb?
Two – one to mix the martinis and one to call the electrician.</p></li>
<li><p>How many Brown students does it take to change a lightbulb?
Eleven – one to change the lightbulb and ten to share the experience.</p></li>
<li><p>How many Dartmouth students does it take to change a lightbulb?
None – Hanover doesn’t have electricity.</p></li>
<li><p>How many Cornell students does it take to change a lightbulb?
Two – One to change the lightbulb and one to crack under the pressure.</p></li>
<li><p>How many Penn students does it take to change a lightbulb?
Only one, but he gets six credits for it.</p></li>
<li><p>How many Columbia students does it take to change a lightbulb?
Seventy-six – one to change the lightbulb, fifty to protest
the lightbulb’s right to not change, and twenty-five to hold
a counter-protest.</p></li>
<li><p>How many Yale students does it take to change a lightbulb?
None – New Haven looks better in the dark.</p></li>
<li><p>How many Harvard students does it take to change a lightbulb?
One – he holds the bulb and the world revolves around him.</p></li>
</ol>
<p>I go to Cornell and I laughed out loud when I read this: “Cornell: I wish I was Harvard…but actually…I like myself…I do…I really do”</p>
<p>Hahaha, Raiderade’s post is great. They are all so true</p>
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<p>Best one… and yeha, raiderade’s wins overall.</p>
<p>I actually think Venkat’s may be the most accurate.</p>
<p>raiderade’s is a popular list that’s been around for a while.</p>
<p>ha ha i love these…
any others?</p>
<p>Harvard: There is no need to acknowledge the existence any other other school because we have everything.</p>
<p>Yale: We are as good as Harvard. We really are. No, really! Stop looking at me like that - I really mean it!</p>
<p>Princeton: We’re better than Harvard and Yale and even even cooler to boot.</p>
<p>Columbia: The Core is the center of all knowledge, NYC is the center of the Universe, and we are the center of NYC.</p>
<p>Dartmouth: Even though we are out in the middle of nowhere we still somehow manage to have everything you could possibly want or need.</p>
<p>Penn: It’s Penn! Not UPenn! And we are not a state school either.</p>
<p>Cornell: Actually, we ARE a state school.</p>
<p>Haha reminds me of this:
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/215910-how-do-colleges-try-sell-you-into-applying.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/215910-how-do-colleges-try-sell-you-into-applying.html</a></p>
<p>These are so accurate it’s scary 
And I’m ashamed to confess that Columbia’s personality sounds all too familiar…</p>
<p>I would say Columbia is the most hardcore & “toughest guy” of the Ivy league.</p>