The Ivy League, HBCUs & College comparisons.

<aside> 🧮 The stats show that you are 60 times more likely to be a CEO in the US if you went to any Ivy League school. Compared to other prestigious schools, you’re ~5 times more likely.

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It’s a sport league, purely.

The Ivy League engages in inter-league sports. So it’s like the premier league but for the most intelligent and well-connected people in the world.
The older the college, the most prestigious. More influence easier on so more power and money.

They are all fantastic schools and, by virtue of at least the academic history and alumni of the school, you are pretty guaranteed tobe successful. I am not saying that not going to an Ivy school will mean you won't be successful.

These are (in order of quite superficial prestige): Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Princeton, Penn, Brown, Dartmouth & Cornell.
- General strengths of the Ivy League: Clout, Nice campus, Everyone who attends who super smart super rich or super successful .Or all of the above. Finding a six-figure ($) job will be easier than for a graduate of any other college in America.

THE IVY LEAGUES, DIRECTLY COMPARED

SCHOOL	SIZE	STRENGTHS	CONS	FAMOUS ALUMS & PROFS
Brown	Small	prestigious for writing, next to RISD (has a joint program)	In a sleepy, pretty irrelevant city.	Emma Watson,
Columbia	Medium	I went there. Overall best college in the world. Most compact campus of any US college, easy to get from A-B.	Academically hard. Some ugly architecture.	Obama, Warren Buffet, Mike Bloomberg, lots of top people in a range of fields. Noble prize winners. NASA astronaut Mike Mass, Hilary Clinton
Cornell	Super Large	Large pool of people to pick from, for clubs, for dating, for vibes.	In a sleepy, pretty irrelevant city - no-one is going to Ithaca for anything
Dartmouth	Small/Medium		It’s in New Hampshire :/. Ain’t NO-one going to NH
Harvard	Medium/Large	Clout. Overall best college in the world. Not super hard to graduate from. Campus is spread out. Top global professional schools	Campus is very spread out, need to take college transit to get around.	Obama, Sheryl Sandberg
Penn
Large	Good professional schools
Princeton	Medium	Undergraduate focused (90% of student population is undergrads)	No professional schools, Which makes it harder for med school students who want to get a 4,
Secluded/suburban, nearest place outside of campus to chop life is NY,
history of grade deflation, which low-key still exist	Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Michelle Obama, Richard Feynman
Yale	Medium	Clout. Campus emulates Oxford.	It’s in New Haven, CT.	Lots of top people in politics

MIT vs Stanford

East coast vs west coast. Purely tech vs a mix of tech and humanities. Both great schools for tech

Harvard vs Yale

One is in a cool city (Harvard), one is not :/. Harvard has better known professional schools. Yale’s prof schools seem like more of any afterthought. Harvard undergrad is cool but its prof schools get more attention/love.

Columbia vs Stanford

Two best cities the country, take your pick. Stanford is a slightly higher proportion of STEM. Stanford is more known for start-ups and tech. Columbia is known for start-ups, as well as politics and law and media. NYC >> SF. People might think you’re talking about the country when you say Columbia which is annoying.

Columbia vs MIT

Both very good for engineering. MIT has more of a maker culture which was cool to me. MIT is slightly harder academically. Columbia is the toughest in the Ivy League.
I can meet future politicians and future everything elses at Columbia, compared to just tech people at MIT. Not to say MIT doesn’t have non-stemmies as well, but I feel you get my point.
NYC is the best city in the country and probably in the world. At least, the *coolest. I think it’s the best, having lived in a few places (including Boston).
Being part Ivy League. A supreme legacy and family that can’t be replicated. Sports, events, connections, shared experience, prestige and recognition.