Which ivy league college is the easiest to get into?
<p>Thats a dumb question. They all vary. Many would say Cornell. Others could say Dartmouth. Look at Penn for example, Wharton has a lower acceptance rate than HYP but you couldn't say Penn is the hardest. Cause they accept more students into the college. So it pretty much varies</p>
<p>easiest to get into = cornell</p>
<p>If it's a dumb question, why did you answer it?</p>
<p>Jeesh...</p>
<p>Well, there's nothing wrong with answering a dumb question with a dumb answer, is there?</p>
<p>no, but there is something wrong with telling someone who is asking an honest question that their question is dumb.</p>
<p>either you're on this forum to help others, or you're not.</p>
<p>Juniorinthefall, I don't know if it's a dumb question. Sure they all vary, but they don't all vary by THAT much. For example, while we may disagree on which one Ivy undergraduate college is the easiest to get into, I think we can all agree that it's probably not Harvard College or Yale College.</p>
<p>alrite, i will settle this, cornell is probably the easiest to get into. Alrite, settled. Prestige, different story lol.</p>
<p>i will tell u though, among older ppl and kids who aren't us news hores, if you say you are going to cornell, they are pretty wowed, i have experienced this several times during my summer vacation.</p>
<p>something that really hurts cornell in terms of selectivity is the fact that new york state kids get in so easy. Its actually a running joke in my school that everyone who applies to Cornell gets in. My school has about 12 going each year and this is common all through long island. so in the eyes of new yorkers cornell is the easiest by far. And if you want to asses the least selective as being the ivy that is less random, than cornell will also fill that bill. The kids you think are going to get in almost always do which is not true for the other ivys.</p>
<p>Well, apparently he's hear to help. Otherwise he would have left it at dumb question and split.</p>
<p>But if it makes you feel any better, there's no such thing as dumb questions. Just dumb people.</p>
<p>are you trying to be mean?? what do you get from that? this is a site to help others. people like you really make me wonder about the motives of some kids on this site.</p>
<p>I'm not trying to be mean. I'm trying to lightening you up a little. Eh, not working. >__> I guess you're not familiar with the sayings. Frankly, its a joke.</p>
<p>This was less a question of personal interest and more a topic of ongoing debate amongst my classmates. I was somewhat curious to see how many responses supported my own opinion, and those which sided with my friends. With the seemingly arbitrary nature of the college admissions process I felt some students might be interested to encounter different perspectives in regards to this particular issue.</p>
<p>I know. I personally didn't think it was a dumb question.</p>
<p>Cornell, I would guess...</p>
<p>For 3 people from my school this year who applied to multiple Ivies, it was the only one they were accepted to (one of them applied to all 8... flat-out rejected by the other 7.)</p>
<p>EDIT: there are 8 ivies...</p>
<p>HYP are in one category and the rest are in the other category. It doesn't make sense to rank them too closely since there is a large element of luck in being accepted among the top applicants. By this I do not mean that if anyone applys, then it is luck whether or not they get in. However, there is only so much room and they can only accept so many. The applicant pool is divided into unofficial categories such as legacy, URM, athletes, international students, development cases and VIP's. Within each category, there are many times more top applicants than they can ever accept. For every applicant they accept there are four or five apparently identical applicants who are denied/waitlisted simply because there are only so many open slots. That is why so many people are waitlisted. Often the number waitlisted is greater than the number accepted. It is easier for the adcom to waitlist the exact clone of somebody they just accepted than to deny them.</p>
<p>I think sometimes this is called a lottery or a crap shoot and people misunderstand it to mean that it is a roll of the dice for everyone. This isn't what is meant. What it means is that if you submit the same extremely good application five times, it will be accepted once and waitlisted/denied four times. Find some other schools, please. The Ivies have very little in common with each other except for the prestige factor. How can anyone not care if they are going to school in downtown NYC or rural CT provided its an Ivy?</p>
<p>Well...ok...I disagree with Dufus3709's comments about there being 2 tiers of Ivy league schools, HYP and Others. This year Columbia College had a lower admission rate at 10.4% than Princeton, with more applicants applying to Columbia. </p>
<p>The fact is that each school, Ivy or not, has a different personality. Cornell is a much bigger undergrad school in terms of population than all the other Ivies. They will, therefore, have a higher acceptance rate. That's simple logic. </p>
<p>Each school likes to continue the type of personality it has achieved over the past centuries. The applicants they accept, the admissions officers believe will help maintain that identity. This is why you see kids getting into Harvard, but being rejected from Yale, Columbia and Penn. Simply reinsert other names for schools and you get the same thing.</p>
<p>Also, find the school that matches you. When I went through this process last year, I had two top choices: Stanford and Columbia. I went to two summer programs (1 at each college) and still could not make up my mind. I then had a talk with my college counselor and after about a nice 45 minute discussion, I had no doubt which school was a better fit for me: Columbia. The history there is incredible, and the student body is extremely diverse. The opportunity for music performance on campus was far greater than at Stanford and the Core sets the Columbia curriculum to a different standard than every other school in the country. Political activism has a major role past and present at Columbia and I found it to be very missing from the Stanford campus. NYC has the most opportunities for its students in terms of jobs and in the end, it was just a better fit.</p>
<p>In all honesty, go to the schools. Find which one's you like and which one's you don't. I thought I was going to love Brown and ended up absolutely hating it. It is all simply a matter of getting a feel from the schools. </p>
<p>LAC's also are a great way to go if you want that type of environment. Go there and experience that for yourself. That is the only way you can make an educated decision about your college choices.</p>
<p>Also, no one on here knows what truly goes on in admissions besides the actual adcoms themselves. From what I have heard from my college counselor who used to work in admissions, each and every single applicant gets the same respect and treatment when the application is read. This is a major point where I disagree with Dufus on and have heard it straight from the horse's mouth, as they say.</p>
<p>I wish you the best of luck and hope that your college choices are made easier by visiting the schools.</p>
<p>what would you consider to be Harvard's personality?</p>
<p>I really think it depends on the applicant...I got into penn-wharton, princeton, and mit but was rejected from dartmouth and waitlisted at EMORY (? yeah i dont get it either) Different schools are looking for different things, so the easiest college for you to get into might not be the easiest percentagewise.</p>