<p>Can someone please rate the ivies from 1 to 8 or however many ivies there are (lol I'm such an idiot) based purely on selectivity? 1 is easiest, 7 is hardest? I understand that all ivies are reaches no matter what because admissions are random, but still, there is some general consensus about which ones are better. For example, most people will accept that Yale is better than Columbia and is more selective. So just gimme a list based on what u think</p>
<p>1) Cornell
2.) Columbia
3.) UPenn
4.) Dartmouth
5.) Brown
6.) Yale
7.) Princeton
8.) Harvard</p>
<p>that sounds right, although i would slide upenn above columbia</p>
<p>that list is off.</p>
<p>8) cornell
7) dartmouth
6) brown
5) penn
4) columbia
3) princeton
2) yale
1) harvard</p>
<p>Selectivity rankings for the ivy league (US world)</p>
<p>Harvard - 1
Yale - 2
Princeton - 4
Penn - 8
Columbia - 6
Dartmouth - 11
Cornell - 22
Brown - 10</p>
<p>So, the rankings would go:</p>
<p>Cornell
Dartmouth
Brown
Penn
Columbia
Princeton
Yale
Harvard</p>
<p>That takes into account 25-75th percentile of SAT score, frosh in top 10%, and admit rate.</p>
<p>Though it really depends on what major you're planning on doing because let's see how far you make it if you want to do engineering or hotel management at Cornell, but anyway, generally speaking when stick to an arts and sciences major I would say:</p>
<ol>
<li>Cornell</li>
<li>Dartmouth</li>
<li>Penn</li>
<li>Brown</li>
<li>Columbia</li>
<li>Princeton</li>
<li>Harvard/Yale</li>
</ol>
<p>boom like how i didn't even need to look at usnews to come up with that list?</p>
<p>it actually changes if you do ED. cornell, penn, brown, and princeton become significantly easier to get into. harvard/yale are ea so it's still difficult and i don't know about columbia/dartmouth</p>
<p>Cornell and Dartmouth.</p>
<p>From my experience with friends who've been admitted:
Cornell
Penn
Dartmouth
Brown
Columbia
Princeton
Harvard/Yale</p>
<p>Most people would agree that the hardest 4 are HYP and Columbia, leaving Brown, Cornell, Dartmouth, and Penn at the bottom.</p>
<p>This is a really misguided question because it seems as though you are using the answer to figure out which Ivy to apply to, and this is a bad strategy. The answer, by the way, is not straightforward. The probability depends on the characteristics of each applicant and the chosen field. Cornell in particular is very difficult to characterize. The highest acceptance rate of any college there is Engineering, yet it's a self-selective pool with many brilliant applicants. The lowest acceptance rate there is Architecture (8%) which is harder to get into than any of the Ivies statistically and you need an impressive portfolio.</p>
<p>It'd be really hard to warrant that Yale is just plain better than Columbia. Acceptance rate isn't a perfect (and in many cases, an inaccurate) means of determmining quality. And I'd also like to stress that admissions seem random . . . they aren't random. The ivies don't get that high SAT range/percentage in top 10% by randomly selecting.</p>
<p>Yale has a TINY admit rate...this years was lower than Harvard I thought (US News is 1 year behind)</p>
<p>what was the the low 25% (percentile) SAT score for an freshman going to cornell?</p>
<p>I always laugh when people make these types of threads or the "tell me my chance at ivies" threads. As if all Ivies have any similarities at all except that they are good colleges that are in the same athletic conference. </p>
<p>Anyway Cornell seems easiest to get into because of the size. They have a significantly larger student body so they can accept more applicants.</p>
<p>The same applies to Penn, larger student body...more acceptances...</p>
<p>I agree with the consensus so far: Cornell is the easiest and Harvard is the hardest. But then the Ivies admissions are random so you could rejected by Cornell and accepted by Harvard.</p>
<p>Skidmore
Cornell
Dartmouth
Penn
Brown
Columbia
Yale
Princeton
Harvard</p>
<p>haha, HYPSkidmore</p>
<p>i also think columbia's rank is inflated b/c i bet a lot of people apply solely b/c it's in NY (the ones who will never get in anyway).</p>