<p>I agree with you slipper...</p>
<p>In terms of education quality (which is what I believe you're referencing), these groups seem dead-on. In terms of prestige - no. But if "prestige whores" want to choose their school based on the name of the college on their degree, that's their issue, not mine.</p>
<p>i think it's for more for prestige than education quality. I personally think education quality is harder to quantify than prestige.</p>
<p>That's because "quality" and "quantity" are as dissimilar as "good" and "many", unless you are from Texas.</p>
<p>Duckstamper, you asked for evidence that Dartmouth has a higher AI than Penn. Here they are from three different sources:</p>
<p>The average score for the entire student body for each of the Ivy schools can be broken down into two tiers, with Dartmouth, Harvard, Princeton, and Yale having higher AI average range requirement than Brown, Columbia, Cornell, and Penn. (What It Really Takes to Get into the Ivy League . By Chuck Hughes, former senior admissions officer, Harvard College, 2003)</p>
<p>Also,</p>
<p>At the time this book was written, the A.I. hierarchy in the League read as follows: Harvard in first, Yale and Princeton neck-in-neck in second and/or third, Dartmouth a close fourth, then a gap, after which came Columbia, Penn, Brown, and Cornell. (Playing the Game: Inside Athletic Recruiting in the Ivy League, by Chris Lincoln, 2004)</p>
<p>Finally,
As Dartmouth made its push to become more intensely focused on admitting high-powered academic applicants in the late 1990s, the SAT scores of the incoming classes began to rise. This raised the Academic Index (a combination of SAT I and II scores and class rank) to a level just a fraction below that of Princeton, Harvard and Yale. In response, the Big Green football recruits had to fit a higher academic profile as well, in order to fit the banding requirements that indicate how many players in each range of AIs that a school can accept. The Harvard Crimson 12/14/2004 <a href="http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=505067%5B/url%5D">http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=505067</a></p>
<p>According to the PR, the toughest schools to get into, in order are:</p>
<ol>
<li>MIT</li>
<li>Princeton</li>
<li>CalTech</li>
<li>Yale</li>
<li>Harvard</li>
<li>Stanford</li>
</ol>
<p>what is your point with this ranking?</p>
<p>Lol this is hilarious, actually. I wonder if allie is a spambot.</p>
<p>The top schools for each are the same.</p>
<p>Atlantic Monthly top 10 & PR Selectivity top 10</p>
<ol>
<li>MIT </li>
<li>Princeton</li>
<li>California Institute of Technology</li>
<li>Yale</li>
<li>Harvard</li>
<li>Stanford</li>
</ol>