<p>Is it easier to get into UChi and Northwestern than Dmouth and Brown?</p>
<p>I'm just curious.... I have to shorten my list : /</p>
<p>yeah it is</p>
<p>How could that be??</p>
<p>Darthmouth and Brown are Ivy League schools; they are more prestigious and thus more qualified people apply, leading to an extremely competative application process.</p>
<p>lmfao at the last persons explanation</p>
<p>^I'm glad you got a laugh out of that. =D</p>
<p>Dartmouth and Brown are more selective with lower acceptance rates and higher yields.</p>
<p>Dartmouth- 13.2%<br>
Brown- 13.4%
Northwestern- 25.3%
Chicago- 27.8%</p>
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Darthmouth and Brown are Ivy League schools; they are more prestigious and thus more qualified people apply, leading to an extremely competative application process.
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<p>This is logically flawed. Prestigious does not imply that more qualified people apply. It implies that more people apply. For all anyone knows, an equal amount of truly qualified people apply to each school in question.</p>
<p>I think Chicago has a self-selection process that means fewer less-qualified applicants apply, leading to a higher acceptance rate. If you aren't turned off by the essay that whole part about UoC being "where fun comes to die" will stop most average students hoping to get into a "top 25" reach school from applying. I think Dartmouth and Brown have that ivy league name recognition, so more people who want to see if they can get into any ivy will apply. I'm not saying they aren't good schools (and am slightly biased because Chicago is my #1). I think in the world of academia Chicago is considered more "prestigious." To Joe Sixpacks out there, however, any school in the ivy league is automatically better than every other college out there.</p>
<p>raynebow757, i would say that you a slightly more than "slightly biased" with your comment</p>
<p>Why are we stressing over this subject in the first place anyways? No matter how we prove our point the statistics and end result are always the same - Brown and Dartmouth are more selective and have a lower acceptance rate than Northwestern and UChicago.</p>
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Dartmouth and Brown are more selective with lower acceptance rates and higher yields.</p>
<p>Dartmouth- 13.2%
Brown- 13.4%
Northwestern- 25.3%
Chicago- 27.8%
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I think that admission rate and yield are important in the sense that they reflect what your peers think about a school. A low admission rate and high yield mean that the school is more popular among your peers. It's kind of mass psychology and whether the mass is correct is a different story.</p>
<p>Like I said Brown and Dartmouth are good schools; I'm applying to Brown and considered Northwestern. But I still think the fact that they're ivy league means more less-qualified applicants apply, leading to a lower acceptance rate and slightly higher yield.</p>
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Like I said Brown and Dartmouth are good schools; I'm applying to Brown and considered Northwestern. But I still think the fact that they're ivy league means more less-qualified applicants apply, leading to a lower acceptance rate and slightly higher yield.
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I would agree with you if Brown and Dartmouth's SAT scores were lower, but they are not.</p>
<p>I wouldn't underestimate U Chicago & Northwestern so fast.</p>
<p>Percent With SAT Scores 1400 Or Higher
(Total, %700+Math, %700+Verbal)</p>
<p>Dartmouth: (65%, 65%, 65%)
Brown (63.5%, 66%, 61%)
Northwestern (63.5%, 66%, 61%)
Chicago (61.5%, 59%, 64%)</p>
<p>In terms of quality, these four schools are similar.
Brown and Northwestern are now nearly identical in terms of SAT scores.
Dartmouth's a little better. Chicago's a little worse but all are very similar.</p>
<h1>of Applicants (Class of 2011)</h1>
<p>Northwestern: 21,930
Brown: 19,097
Dartmouth: 14,176
Chicago: 10,362</p>
<p>It looks like more people apply to NU than anywhere else.</p>
<p>I agree with posts #9 & #11. In response to post #14, the bottom of the mid-50% SAT range is 1330 for Chicago, 1330 for Brown, 1330 for Dartmouth & 1350 for Northwestern. Mid-points of the mid-50% SAT range for each school are: 1440 for Dartmouth, 1435 for Northwestern, 1430 for Chicago & 1430 for Brown.
Re: Post #16: Of course more people apply to Northwestern University as it is larger than the other schools. Northwestern has about 8,000 undergraduates; Brown has about 5,800; Dartmouth has approx. 4,100 undergraduate students while Chicago has 4,850 undergrads.
I think that Brown, Chicago & Dartmouth attract a much higher percentage of applications from students who hold these as first choice schools. Northwestern applicants prefer Stanford, Harvard & Princeton typically, if accepted to them.</p>
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<blockquote> <blockquote> <blockquote> <p>"I think in the world of academia Chicago is considered more "prestigious." </p> </blockquote> </blockquote> </blockquote>
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<p>total myth Chicago likes to perpetuate. Dartmouth and Brown do incredibly better with job recruiting and grad placement. It might be due to stronger students overall, but if you look at the number of alums at Yale law or Harvard med the difference is strikingly in favor of Dartmouth and Brown.</p>
<p>Also if total applicants matter than NYU is the best school in the country. Its not.</p>
<p>Slipper,
I believe that UCLA is the champion with more than 55,000 applicants in the last admission season.</p>