<p>I'm just curious, what is each Ivy famous for? (Like Business, Sciences, Arts, Law, English, etc.)</p>
<p>Also, what schools offer pre-med or other related majors, since I want to be a doctor?</p>
<p>Thanks :P</p>
<p>and what is princeton (or other schools) specifically known for, or best in...</p>
<p>Harvard is Law
Penn is prob Business</p>
<p>^although yale has taken them over in law...</p>
<p>and Columbia I always think Sciences</p>
<p>UPenn is also known for BME.</p>
<p>Columbia - sciences? really? i always thought humanities majors were its forte with the exception of financail engineering since not many schools offer that</p>
<p>Harvard -> Law
Yale -> Law
Dartmouth -> ?
Cornell -> Engineering
Columbia -> ?
UPenn -> Business + Med
Brown -> ?
Princeton -> Politics</p>
<p>Ghastly misinformation on this thread, but the question invites it.</p>
<p>The "Ivies" are all basically wide-ranging universities that have a high degree of academic prestige precisely because they are strong in lots of areas, and attract top students. There are a number of other universities of similar prestige that are not "Ivies" -- the Ivy League is essentially not much more than an athletic conference whose sports teams play each other.</p>
<p>The Ivy League has 8 universities in it. They are all probably more similar to each other than they are different, with the possible exception of Dartmouth, but they each have somewhat different social characters, and there are comparatively minor academic differences, too. None of them offers a "pre-med" major; students who want to go to medical school take the required pre-med courses and major in whatever interests them. None of them offers a pre-law major. Two (Penn and Cornell) have undergraduate business programs, but all of them have students interested in business (e.g., the current and future Treasury Secretaries are both Dartmouth alumni). Most of them have undergraduate engineering programs, but they vary in quality a lot; none are really among the top engineering programs in the country, but Princeton, Cornell, and Columbia probably come closest.</p>
<p>They have slightly different offerings of professional schools, which are for people who already have undergraduate degrees. Yale, Harvard, Penn and Columbia have top law schools (Yale and Harvard a little more so), and Cornell has a not-quite-top law school. All of them but Princeton have well-regarded medical schools (but Cornell's is hundreds of miles from its main campus, and Dartmouth's and Brown's aren't as well-known as the others'). Harvard, Penn, Columbia, and Yale have business schools, but Yale's pales in reputation to Harvard and Penn, which are the largest and best known in the country. Harvard and Princeton have the top two schools of government in the country. Yale has a famous Drama School, Art & Architecture School, and Forestry School, and both Harvard and Yale have Theological Schools. Cornell has a number of specialized schools at the graduate and undergraduate levels -- Agriculture, Hotel Management, Industrial Labor Relations, Ecology, Engineering and Architecture.</p>
<p>Dartmouth, Princeton and Brown have much smaller graduate programs than the others, and are primarily undergraduate institutions. Graduate students outnumber undergraduates at Harvard and Columbia, and undergraduates sometimes feel crowded out there. Penn and Cornell have much larger undergraduate populations than the others (Cornell has three times as many undergraduates as Dartmouth or Brown, and almost twice as many as Harvard, which is the third largest.)</p>
<p>Dartmouth has a business school, too, with a special focus on manufacturing.</p>
<p>Dartmouth and Cornell are rural and isolated, although Cornell's college town is quite vibrant. Princeton is in a wealthy suburb halfway between New York and Philadelphia. The others are all in central urban locations, but in very different cities, ranging from New Haven (small, depressed, gritty) to Manhattan (the Center of the World).</p>
<p>^Well written, very insightful.</p>
<p>"ghastly" LOL: I love your adjective JHS! </p>
<p>OP: for wanting to become a doctor, you have the fundamental steps to becoming one incorrect ("which schools have pre-med programs?"). Go research the basic path for becoming a doctor and come back w/more questions. Good luck to you</p>
<p>You have to look at the overall school - attention from profs, access to research, etc. There is not such thing as a good "pre med" Ivy - there's all the exact same. Pick the Ivy you like the most.</p>