What are some good ivy league schools?

Question

I know of Harvard, Oxford, and Yale. Can some people please list all the ivy league colleges they know, with a Pro/Con list. I am going to be applying to college next year, and I wanna be sure I know where I wanna go. I have really good grades. I have straight A's, with the occasional B or B- in math. So I think I might have a chance of getting in. Please list as many as you know! My future could be at stake.

Oh, and I would really like it if they teach law, because I would love to be a lawyer. If they don't have that, then I would love it if they had a school for the arts, because I am a talented artist and I love art with a passion(but not as much as I love justice).

In response to Whitnea, I have Asperger's Syndrome, a college fund, monthly checks of $600 untill I am eighteen, and am eligible for a student loan. So the money is no issue. I have at least $65,000 as it is, and my $400 of my checks go into that each month. So in another year I will have even more. *too tired to count how much right now(stayed up till 8:00am this morning)*

And, I will be taking my SATS this year, and my mom says that I will probably get a score of at least 500 or so. Maybe a little less, but she doubts it. 0.o Is that good or bad? I don't know. Whatev. XDD

Answer 1

First of all, I would like to say that Ranto is exactly right with his response however Whitnea's answer perpetuates a popular misconception.

There is no doubt that an Ivy League education does not come cheap. My son goes to Princeton where tuition and board costs $44,000 annually. The problem is that Whitnea goes on to recommend "less expensive" schools. After a quick look at www.collegeboard.com I have listed the "bargain" schools and their related tuition, room and board costs:

Vanderbilt $46,700
Middlebury $46,910
Vassar $47,200
Hampshire $47,000
Georgia Tech $31,400

I addition to Princeton, the you can expect to pay the following at the remaining Ivies:

Harvard $45,600
Yale $45,000
Brown $46,000
Columbia $47,200
Cornell $46,000
Dartmouth $45,600
Penn $46,100

So you can see that the "bargain" schools mentioned by Whitnea are no bargains at all with the possible exception of Georgia Tech.

So, do your research. The college board site has all sorts of information such as SAT scores, class rank and GPA;s of admitted students, costs, available majors, etc. You must decide what you want to major in, visit the schools and then decide which is best for you. BTW, my son is in his second year and absolutely loves Princeton.

All the above being said, you will need to aim much higher with your SAT scores....Like Whitnea said, you should shoot for a minimum of 2100 - 2200 in the SAT 1 and 700+ in three SAT 2's. The competition is tough...even those occasional B's can be a problem.

Good luck!.

Answer 2

All of the Ivy League schools are excellent. In my opinion, this is the order:

1. Harvard
2. Princeton
3. Yale
4. University of Pennsylvania
5. Columbia University
6. Dartmouth
7. Cornell University
8. Brown University

Oxford is in the UK and is not an Ivy League school.

Several other schools are as good or better than those in the Ivy League. These schools include: Duke, Stanford, University of Chicago, Northwestern, Cal Tech and MIT.

In the US, law school is a graduate school -- meaning that you have to get a bachelor's degree first. Harvard, Yale, Columbia and Pennsylvania all have excellent law schools. Not all Ivy League schools do. Princeton does not have a law school. But it would be a great school to go to for your bachelor's degree if you want to go on to law school.

If you want ot study art, I would not recommend going to an Ivy League school. The best art school in the US is RISD -- the Rhode Island School of Design.

Answer 3

Just because you get A's in school doesn't mean that you are automatically ivy league material. Take you're SATs first, have each section of your score be in the 700-800 range and then you probably have a good chance. Then you have to take SAT IIs which are a whole other ball game.

It doesn't matter where you go for undergraduate. You earn a law degree in graduate school, so you can go anywhere for undergrad and it won't make too much of a difference. I wouldn't suggest going to an Ivy league for undergrad, its a lot of money you don't have to spend. There are plenty of good school that are hard to get into that don't cost as much as an Ivy League school. Vassar, Vanderbilt, Hampshire, Middlebury, Georgia Tech... ect

Once you get to the point where you need to go to law school, Harvard has a great program, as does UCLA, USC, and Columbia. Which you don't need to think about just yet.

Remember an Ivy League education is 80,000 a year just in tuition. You could go to a school that is 40,000 and go to an Ivy for law school, which is a smarter choice.

Answer 4

Technically the Ivy League is an athletic league between those universities. It grew to become into time-honored interior the Fifties, yet all the faculties different than Cornell are colonial -- it quite is, they have been time-honored earlier 1776. Cornell grew to become into time-honored interior the 1820s. So all the faculties have long histories and documents of educational status. they are actually not inevitably greater constructive in that they are actually not for each guy or woman. they are particularly stable faculties, yet once you want faculties in yet another area of the rustic or a greater comfortable ecosystem, you may circulate to those particularly. additionally, they are very high priced, and you will get a stable training in different faculties for plenty greater reasonably-priced.