<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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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.
THE IVY LEAGUES, DIRECTLY COMPARED
SCHOOL | SIZE | STRENGTHS | CONS | FAMOUS ALUMS & PROFS |
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https://www.brown.edu/ | Small | prestigious for writing, next to RISD (has a joint program) | In a sleepy, pretty irrelevant city. | Emma Watson, |
https://www.columbia.edu/ | 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 |
https://www.cornell.edu/ | 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 | |
https://home.dartmouth.edu/ | Small/Medium | It’s in New Hampshire :/. Ain’t NO-one going to NH | ||
https://www.harvard.edu/ | 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 |
https://www.upenn.edu/ | ||||
Large | Good professional schools | |||
https://www.princeton.edu/ | 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 | |||
https://www.yale.edu/ | Medium | Clout. Campus emulates Oxford. | It’s in New Haven, CT. | Lots of top people in politics |
MIT vs Stanford
Harvard vs Yale
Columbia vs Stanford
Columbia vs MIT