<p>and why</p>
<p>(say it was the top ranked school you got into)</p>
<p>Mine would have to be:
i would never go to Yale.. its in a cruddy location, i hear horror stories about the dorms (rats and animals haha) and i just don't like the feel of it/vibes</p>
<p>Any of them but Brown.</p>
<p>Which is why three and a half years ago Brown was the only one I applied to. Had a good enough hook to be competitive pretty much anywhere, though nothing is a given with any of the top schools, but that didn’t matter.</p>
<p>The Ivy League is nothing special at all. I tend to think that people who frame questions grouping them like this probably aren’t into any one of those schools for the right reasons.</p>
<p>their the most prestigious schools in the nation/ if you go to one and do well you have great job prospects … and its just easier than just listing like 30 universities</p>
<p>Penn or Princeton.</p>
<p>Penn is almost the exact opposite of what I’m looking for in a school (plus I hate the location) and I don’t like Princeton’s social scene, especially the eating clubs.</p>
<p>Also, though this isn’t quite as strong a feeling, I wouldn’t want to go to Columbia because I want to leave the city.</p>
<p>If you go to one of many schools and do well you’ll have great job prospects-- most schools, in fact.</p>
<p>Grouping the Ivies for prestige is precisely the wrong way to go about college searches…</p>
<p>But, if you wanted to ask a more interesting question, I think it would be, “Which school were you initially interested in but found later that you would never go there?” Or “Where are your friends applying to that you’d never want to go?”</p>
<p>In fact, if you’d go to any Ivy but Yale, it’s pretty clear you don’t know what you’re looking for in a school.</p>
<p>When I was applying for undergrad, I only Ivy’s I considered were Columbia and Cornell.</p>
<p>Many of them didn’t offer the major I wanted to study and thus I wasn’t the least bit interested. They were Harvard, Yale, Dartmouth, Brown, and Penn. They’re great schools, but just weren’t right for me.</p>
<p>this question is absurd because it’d definitely consider every ivy that I got accepted to.</p>
<p>but since I have to pick one, I’ll say that the ivy I wouldn’t go to would be Cornell</p>
<p>I wouldn’t want to go to Dartmouth, but I agree with modestmelody. The 2 I have the most passion for are Brown & Penn, though, for sure.</p>
<p>the two ivy league schools that I like the most are Princeton and Brown (in that order)</p>
<p>I would never go to Cornell.</p>
<p>The only two I considered were Brown and Cornell, because I don’t like the idealism that goes along with the other ones.</p>
<p>A bit surprised that nobody has written “Penn State” or “Cornell College”.</p>
<p>I would never go to Harvard because I hear WAY too many horror stories about cutthroat competitiveness and I know personally I might go beserk ;)</p>
<p>Student92- what idealism? Are you referring to rampant liberalism at the ivy leagues? Because if so, Brown has plenty of that.</p>
<p>He may have meant “elitism”.</p>
<p>haha Cold Wind, it’s funny how people think Penn State and Cornell College are ivy league schools</p>
<p>lioness: same</p>
<p>
Considering that Cornell College was founded several decades before Cornell University, it has a greater claim to “Cornell” than an upstart Ivy. ;)</p>
<p>Dartmouth for sure.</p>
<p>Definitely Princeton</p>