<p>Duke has a better national-even international reputation- than Dartmouth. Duke is also a school on the rise and the weather in North Carolina is a lot better than the long winters of remote Hanover New Hampshire.</p>
<p>In my extremely humble opinion, I don't think your future employer will say "Oh. It's too bad Duke got ranked a couple places over Cornell in the Princeton Review. No job for you." They're all great schools, but your compatibility with any one school is more important than its rank.</p>
<p>Your employer is going to be much more interested in what you did at School A than if it's ranked lower than School B.</p>
<p>Why doesn't this ever get through?</p>
<p>agree with stambliark41</p>
<p>Dartmouth and Duke, then Cornell</p>
<p>I'd say Cornell internationally is known better, but in America, DUke has the greatest prestige. Mainly, because their incredible Basketball team, but still people know it as an incredible private university NOT in the Ivy League.</p>
<p>First of all, Cornell & Dartmouth are more prestigious than Duke- not just because they're Ivy League- but because they have a longer history of academic excellence. Duke only became a top university over the past quarter century. (it was a wash u a couple decades ago)</p>
<p>Cornell Arts & Sciences is a stronger school academically than Dartmouth College. Cornell has a Top 10 English Department. Dartmouth's English Dept. is basically garbage compared to Cornell's. Cornell is much better in science and engineerig and Cornell has simply stronger liberal arts faculty.</p>
<p>I recommend looking at the New US News Graduate school Guide for 2006 which ranks universities in certain humanities and science areas- by reputation scores. The faculty at Dartmouth are generally inferior to Cornell's. Cornell professors demand more from students and that's why Cornell is so rigorous. Dartmouth professors baby their students. If you can't wipe your own ass go to Dartmouth. </p>
<p>Cornell had a higher yield than Dartmouth last year. Dartmouth receives the fewest # of applications (both early & regular) and has the lowest yiled in the Ivy League. But even this yield is better than Duke's. Duke is bribing its students with free ipods. However, most admitted students already have ipods anyway and can see right through this pathetic marketing technique.</p>
<p>Go to Cornell. More people. More classes. More choices. More opportunities. Kick ass reputation for academic rigor.</p>
<p>That is such a ridiculous post. Dartmouth is amazing because of the opportunities you get to actually assist professors with research, its not some grad school factory. Last year was the first time Cornell's yield was higher, but by less than a percent. Dartmouth is almost always higher.</p>
<p>Its an undergraduate focused school. Cornell is the least prestigious of these three. Grad rankings are irrelevant, the undergrad ones count.</p>
<p>Wow that was harsh.</p>
<p>Actually Barry, Dartmouth had a higher yield than Cornell last year, and as far as I know Cornell has never had a higher yield than Dartmouth.</p>
<p>Holy Keerist, you people are worrying more about yield than how much you'll enjoy your experience?</p>
<p>Do you require your dates to submit surveys listing their GPAs and SAT scores, as well? WHO CARES?! Go to the school where you'll be happy!</p>
<p>Yes, I agree we should all consider a high ranked university over Podunk U, but when you're sweating top 15, you're just giving yourself grief over nothing. All of them are great schools, end of story, fin, finito, owari.</p>
<p>Duke, Dartmouth, and Cornell are VEERY different schools. If you haven't already visited, I suggest that you do, and also imagine Dartmouth and Cornell in the winter (brrr).
Based on prestige alone, I would have to say Duke...but Cornell also has a great reputation for great (and difficult) academics that many other institutions and job recruiters admire. Dartmouth has, as I've heard, a limited social scene that involves mainly drinking and skiing, possibly drinking WHILE skiing.</p>
<p>I recommend Cornell to a lot of people becuase there are so many opportunities, a great night life (Cornell is practically a city by itself), respected academics, and a beautiful campus (Ithaca is Gorges!). It holds a different kind of prestige than Duke, but you'll also have to work harder for the grades.</p>
<p>Yield is about the most useless statistic ever used in the history of rankings. It has NOTHING to do with academic excellence. All it has to do is show that the admissions committee actually tracks how many times you log into your application account. Pretty stupid, and Columbia is the most famous for manipulating their yield rate.</p>
<p>Cornell is the most prestigous internationally. Most people here in the west coast view Cornell in high respect, and many have not even heard of Dartmouth or Brown. </p>
<p>I almost went to Cornell. but chose Berkeley over UPenn and Cornell. For me, the globalization and interconnectedness of the world was important to me, so I chose the school with the most international prestige.</p>
<p>Hmmm...</p>
<p>So....</p>
<ol>
<li>Duke</li>
<li>Dartmouth</li>
<li>Cornell</li>
</ol>
<p>?????</p>
<p>Devil May Cry, go visit them. Don't base your decision on the hearsay of strangers, including myself. You need to fall in love with one of them, first.</p>