Ivy League vs Non Ivy League, who are you taking?

Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Columbia, Penn, Brown, Dartmouth, Cornell

vs

Stanford, MIT, Caltech, Duke, Chicago, Northwestern, JHU, Berkeley

19 Comments
 

As a somewhat biased UChicago alum, most of the non ivies are better than the corresponding ivies in your post.

 

How so? IMO only the lower ivies are worse.

Harvard > Stanford

Princeton > MIT

Yale > Caltech

Columbia > Duke

Penn > Chicago

Brown Northwestern

Dartmouth JHU

Cornell > Berkeley

 

Well, I’m adjusting for the overall school quality, not just looking at it from a finance lens, so I’d do something like this:

H S
P MIT
Y Caltech
Columbia > Duke
Penn = Chicago
Brown Northwestern
D JHU
Cornell > UCB

 

Agree with the top ivies being better for finance specifically, but disagree with ivies having better depth. I think Duke/UChicago/Northwestern clear Cornell/Brown/Dartmouth in terms of education, grad schools (obviously), quality of student, research, etc. I don’t think it’s wrong to say that the first 3 clear the second 3 in finance placement too. 

 

Yeah no shit because you moved the goalposts. Remove any two schools from Duke/UChicago/Northwestern and replace them with JHU and Berkeley and I’m taking the lower ivies over em. 

 

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