Yeah, welcome to the safety school of the Ivy League.
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With an acceptance rate of 11 percent, Brown is the fourth most selective Ivy (and not the eighth) as everyone knows. You’d be rejected (and your kid, too) if you applied. Here are the facts:
Ivy League selectivity ranking by economists Christopher Avery of Harvard, Andrew Metrick of Yale, Caroline Hoxby of Stanford, and Mark Glickman of Boston University, published by the National Bureau of Economic Research as “A Revealed Preference Ranking of U.S. Colleges and Universities.” It utilizes the largest ever survey of top-scoring high school seniors, and tracks which college they eventually chose.
The Ivy League selectivity ranking:
1. Harvard
2. Yale
3. Princeton
4. Brown
5. Columbia
6. Dartmouth
7. Penn
8. Cornell
Brown wins the head-to-head competition against Columbia 56 percent of the time, Dartmouth 61 percent, Penn 65, Cornell 76.
So much for your “Ivy League safety school” nonsense.
The links to the study and to the New York Times chart of its results are here: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=601105 http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2006/09/17/weekinreview/20060917_LEONHARDT_CHART.html
Since I’m a Yale graduate, I doubt that I’d worry much about being rejected by Brown. I report what its common reputation was 30 years ago — and today, judging by what is said by the fellow Ivy Leaguers I talk to — and your numbers merely track who was admitted versus who applied, not the quality of the undergraduate body. Let’s see some average SAT scores … or who goes on to become (or even run for) President. Or even some anecdotal evidence from people who applied to more than one of the Ivies and picked Brown as their preference.
September 10th, 2009 at 23:24
With an acceptance rate of 11 percent, Brown is the fourth most selective Ivy (and not the eighth) as everyone knows. You’d be rejected (and your kid, too) if you applied. Here are the facts:
Ivy League selectivity ranking by economists Christopher Avery of Harvard, Andrew Metrick of Yale, Caroline Hoxby of Stanford, and Mark Glickman of Boston University, published by the National Bureau of Economic Research as “A Revealed Preference Ranking of U.S. Colleges and Universities.” It utilizes the largest ever survey of top-scoring high school seniors, and tracks which college they eventually chose.
The Ivy League selectivity ranking:
1. Harvard
2. Yale
3. Princeton
4. Brown
5. Columbia
6. Dartmouth
7. Penn
8. Cornell
Brown wins the head-to-head competition against Columbia 56 percent of the time, Dartmouth 61 percent, Penn 65, Cornell 76.
So much for your “Ivy League safety school” nonsense.
The links to the study and to the New York Times chart of its results are here:
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=601105
http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2006/09/17/weekinreview/20060917_LEONHARDT_CHART.html
September 11th, 2009 at 04:36
Since I’m a Yale graduate, I doubt that I’d worry much about being rejected by Brown. I report what its common reputation was 30 years ago — and today, judging by what is said by the fellow Ivy Leaguers I talk to — and your numbers merely track who was admitted versus who applied, not the quality of the undergraduate body. Let’s see some average SAT scores … or who goes on to become (or even run for) President. Or even some anecdotal evidence from people who applied to more than one of the Ivies and picked Brown as their preference.