What Type of student is preferred and fits in better at each Ivy League School

Applying to College
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<p>The Ivy League is just an athletic conference, nothing more. Look on each college’s website, especially the “Why [College]” section and you can see the values and kinds of things they look for.</p>

<p>Just from a little research and the impression that I’m getting:</p>

<p>Harvard: Intellectual curiosity, enjoy learning
Wharton: Ambition, Leadership potential
Cornell: Quantitative skills, critical thinking/scientific inquiry
MIT: Research, innovation (in engineering and science)
Stanford: Solving issues, innovation (in social issues and business)</p>

<p>Do you own research and apply to the school that fits you best. Don’t worry about prestige or your chances of getting in; there is a lot more to your application than GPA/SAT. </p>

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<p>Do you honestly believe that Harvard doesn’t want ambitious students with leadership potential? Or that wharton doesn’t want people with quantitative skills and critical thinking? There are some obvious differences between schools (location, size of graduate school, curriculum requirements, departments of distinction) and then there are much, much, much, more subtle differences - and you’re not going to find them on the website, you’ll only begin to scratch the surface of those differences when you actually spend time on the campus interacting with the student body - and while I don’t think Hunt’s post captures it all, I have to admit that’s definitely part of it.</p>