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 is the first 8 US unis to be created. They made a sports league to play each other. That’s it… but purely the definition, but it doesnt stop there..
A uni that is first to educate people will have more important things associated with it, hence will be more prestigious than a newer uni.
So the Ivy League was and is like the English football Premier League but instead it’s the most intelligent, powerful and well-connected people in the world.

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

These are: Columbia, Yale, Penn, Princeton, Harvard, Brown, Dartmouth & Cornell.
- General strengths of Ivy League schoold: Clout, Everyone who attends who super smart or super rich or super successful - everyone is a mix of any of those. Finding a six-figure ($) job will be easier than for a graduate of any other college in America. Nice campus.

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, founder of AirBnb
Columbia	Medium	Best college in the world. Most compact campus of any US college, easy to get from A-B. Best professional schools in the world. Ranked #1 for food in the US by 2 rankings. In NYC, most powerful & important city on earth - best proximity to incredible things and people. Has a 24-hr dining hall where French Toast is served daily.	Academically hard. Some ugly architecture. Some people might like more space.	Obama, Warren Buffet, Mike Bloomberg, Founder of KKR, 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	Good professional (grad) schools.	It’s in New Hampshire	Open AI CTO
Harvard	Medium/Large	Relatively most popular. 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 (MBA)
Penn
Large	Good professional schools		Lots of top finance bros.
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	Campus emulates Oxford. popular.	It’s in New Haven, CT	Lots of top people in politics

MIT vs Stanford

one is just engineers, other is everyone. Think about waht you want to be connected to in your long career.

Harvard vs Yale

East coast vs west coast. Purely tech vs a mix of tech and humanities. Both great schools for tech
One is in a cool city (Harvard), one is not :/. Harvard has better known professional schools in the social wolrld, but not the professional. Yale’s professional schools are very strong.

Columbia vs Stanford

Two most popular the country, take your pick. New York is the better city for professional, social, and creative reasons. Stanford is a slightly higher proportion of STEM students. Stanford is more known for start-ups and tech. Columbia is known for start-ups, as well as politics and law and media. Few people that lack context and experience people might think you’re talking about the country when you say Columbia.

Columbia vs MIT

Both very good for engineering. Columbia is the best in the world for finance, also everything considered. MIT has more of an engineering education maker culture which was cool to me. Both very hard to graduate from, especially for engineering. For non-engineering Columbia more manageable.
I can meet current & future leading politicians and future everything elses at Columbia, compared to just overwhelmingly tech people at MIT. MIT does have non-STEM people but it’s a sheer miniority.