<p>Out of all the ivies, which one is the least competitive for admission?</p>
<p>has to be brown, dartmouth, or cornell...</p>
<p>Cornell by pure acceptance rate (that's including all of the colleges in the Cornell system. I'm not sure what the CAS and engineering acceptance rate is; it might just be comparable to Harvard.) </p>
<p>Of course, you have to remember that not a lot of people are cross-admits and one could get into Harvard and be rejected to Brown. It happens.</p>
<p>Varies by major,
for engineering this may be appropriate:
E= Easy, M= Medium, H= Hard (to get in)</p>
<p>E-M: Columbia (Fu), Dartmouth
M: Upenn (SEAS- single program not the joint ones), Cornell
M+: Brown (you will still need some major arts/performing arts involvement)
H: Harvard, Princeton, Yale
(they basically do not care where you are applying to?)</p>
<p>@MIT 012
Dartmouth is misleadingly low. Dartmouth has only one college that everyone applies to. They do not have quotas for each major, so you are expected to be qualified for any lib arts major. Therefore, this might make Dartmouth one of the hardest if you are only good at math/science.</p>
<p>Also, I disagree with your use of 'easy' 'medium' and 'hard'. All are 'hard'. Stick with a non-labeled continuum when ranking 8 of our countries finest institutions.</p>
<p>@ OP:
The only general estimation of difficulty to get in would be approximately by acceptance rate...</p>
<p>Harvard
Yale
Columbia
Princeton
Dartmouth
Brown
Penn
Cornell</p>
<p>BUT, I strongly believe in schools selecting students not only on merit, but by fit with the school. This is why I see so many students rejected at Dartmouth/Brown, but in at HYP. (However, do not chalk this up to a Tufts Syndrome type of thing. I know Dartmouth/Brown ED rejects at HYP.)</p>
<p>The answer to your question is whichever one both of your parents went to.</p>
<p>Weighing other factors as well as acceptance rate, USNWR and Princeton Review concur that Cornell's the least selective of the eight.</p>
<p>based on people i know getting in, cornell is the "easiest," which i think is at least partly due to the fact that it has such a big student body.</p>
<p>If your ultimate goal is to get a degree from an Ivy look into doing 4 years at another college and applying to a low ranked Master's program with a high acceptance rate. Very few, if any, top engineers will look at Dartmouth or Brown to get their MSE, so something like that could be your best bet.</p>
<p>Definitely Cornell.</p>
<p>Cornell minus the CAS and Engineering schools. Cornell CAS and Engineering are probably comparable to Upenn's equivalent schools.</p>
<p>Cornell..based on acceptance rate</p>
<p>Cornell has the highest acceptance rate at around 20 %. But it also has the most students and the most colleges to which applicants can choose to apply to, which raises its acceptance rate. For example, Dartmouth has around 5000 undergrads I believe, while Cornell has 13000. Also, all Dartmouths applicants apply to the same college, while Cornell applicants can apply to any of seven colleges. Therefore, even with about two times the number of applicants that Dartmouth has, Cornell's acceptance rate is still higher.</p>