Which Ivies should I apply to?
I’m looking for:
-medium sized school (good combination of research opportunities and liberal arts)
-suburban campus (pretty, quads, and not in the middle of a city)
-collaborative (not too competitive)
-COMMUNITY
Price and selectivity are not of issue
Which Ivies are you a match for? That’s more than stats and what you want. How have you informed yourself?
Which Ivys colleges should I apply to?
Now that that is fixed, you have hundreds of fine schools to consider, and you have a much better chance of finding the best school for you.
Suburban campus: Cornell and Princeton for sure.
also Dartmouth. The rest are in urban areas.
Selectivity will be an issue for the Ivy adcoms.
Really?
–First it is ridiculous to focus a college search on only Ivy League colleges. Most have under a 10% acceptance rate.
–Second, if you insist on looking for a certain type of Ivy college then do some research on your own to find the schools that fit – the websites are filled with information (including location, size of student body etc.) and pictures, a number of excellent college guide books (ex. Fiske, Princeton Review, Insiders Guide) give excellent descriptions of many colleges, many schools have virtual tours online, you can read up on each school’s thread right here on CC, etc.
According to your other threads, you have a 32 ACT and ~4.0W GPA. I’m not sure how much it matters to Ivies that you can be full pay – they get so many apps I can’t imagine it matters much. And I don’t think it makes up for subpar scores. Check each college’s Common Data Set to see where a 32 GPA is competitive and apply there. Make sure your list has matches and safeties on it too.
OP, maybe this is a case where you meant to meant to ask one of those “I can apply to one for the heck of it” questions. But you wrote it as if you really have idea what’s a medium sized, somewhat suburban, collaborative Ivy. And there are only 8 f them to look through, (and most people know, in their sleep, lol, that Columbia’s in NYC.)
You’ve got to lift a finger here or fergit it.
Sorry, vital typo. You wrote it as if you really have no idea…
The “suburban campus” criterion pretty much rules out at least 5 of the 8 schools in the Ivy League conference. Harvard, Brown, Yale, Columbia, and UPenn are all in cities. In addition, Dartmouth may be a little too far for you from a major city. Princeton seems to be the one Ivy that best satisfies several stated criteria. Whether it would satisfy your “collaborative” expectations is hard to say.
maybe look at lafayette college.hendrix college and muhlenberg college.
minus the “ivy” tag …you will probably find every thing you may want in a college. (just saying)
You can’t search for the location/size of eight schools?
I’m guessing that the OP was using “Ivies” as a shorthand for “elite private colleges.”
I’ve seen a lot of people do that.
^^^^ I would not assume that. But certainly the OP can clarify his/her question and expand the horizon. My sense from looking at other posts is that the OP is looking for one Ivy as a reach school.
What happened to ED at Northwestern?
Princeton appears as the sole representative of the Ive League here:
http://www.newsweek.com/25-most-desirable-suburban-schools-71867
No ivies, from what i’ve heard from my friends at almost all of them, are collaborative. Colleges at the Ivy level that are collaborative, fun, etc: Northwestern, WashU, Vandy, Michigan, Berkeley
Hey sorry, my question wasn’t clear. I meant to imply that I was adding one or two Ivies “for the heck of it” to my application list. I ended up applying to HYP and Brown just for fun, and I’ll be attending Brown next fall. Sorry for the confusion.