Could I get into Yale/Princeton/Brown/Harvard/B...
Harvard/Yale/Princeton are almost impossible to get into unless you have a hook like a recruited athlete. minority, parent is an alum, etc. I suggest considering top ranked Holy Cross which is 40 miles west of Boston. Holy Cross has one of the top rated Premed programs in the nation and opened a 70 million dollar science complex a year ago. Last November the department of theatre at the College of the Holy Cross was awarded the New England Theatre Conference’s (NETC) Moss Hart Award for best college play in all of New England, for its production of My Life with Albertine. This is the second consecutive Moss Hart win for the Holy Cross theatre department
Yale, Harvard or Princeton?
If you're applying to only one of these schools, don't go for Harvard. It has an extremely low acceptance rate and after you get in, it doesn't get any easier. A close friend of mine was wait listed at Harvard even with 10 AP's with scores of 5 and who had an amazing list of national activities (MOSP, MUN-best representative @ UPENN, RSI, etc.) I think he received a scholarship at Yale. My sister also went to Harvard; she had work night and day and graduated summa, but a lot of people who would have been the valedictorian at any other college ended with sub 3.0 gpa's and struggled to find a decent job. Also, she got kicked out for a year for something that a legacy did, and the committee was too afraid to do anything. The same is true for Yale and Princeton I'm sure. However, a lot of my friends attend university at Yale and like the system. One drawback of Princeton is that it doesn't offer any graduate courses, and so there is usually a dearth of Princeton students at top grad schools because a grad school would place a candidate of the same caliber from their college over a person from a different college. It ultimately depends on your profession. I'm sure people have daunting stories to tell about Yale and Princeton as well, and it doesn't depend what happened to other people, only yourself. At my school, Penn, we are the undisputed leaders in business among all colleges including HYP.
Consumer and producer surplus in economics?
Before 1991, the eight Ivy League colleges (Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania and Yale) along with MIT, shared information and agreed on rules for setting their prices of education (price equals tuition minus scholarship). Since 1991, these schools have set their prices in competition with each other. Using the chapter in the textbook on monopoly, predict what has happened to the efficiency of the market, to the distribution of producer and consumer surplus, and to deadweight loss. I am most confused about what happens to producer and consumer surplus in a monopoly
Ivy League numerous questions please explain .....?
Some people consider the Ivies elite schools. However, their Ivy status comes from their athletic conference. There are many schools that have comparative education. But the Ivies are well-endowed, and so the quality of life is generally better at an Ivy than a non-Ivy. The Ivies are considered like the Oxford and Cambridge of the U.K. Lots of internationals are attracted to the Ivies because of their renown, and they generally are really good schools. If you're a student at an Ivy, you're an Ivy-league student, though some people will call high schoolers of the same quality as Ivy league students, because they're worthy of the Ivies. The eight Ivies are Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Princeton, University of Pennsylvania, and Yale. Columbia is the most international and it's in the heart of New York. Princeton is considered having one of the best liberal arts programs, and perhaps the best quality of life. Cornell is the biggest and is famous for its agriculture and life sciences college. The most postgraduates are at Columbia. Getting an undergraduate education at an Ivy is great, but it's most useful for postgraduates, people seeking their Masters and Ph.D, and getting a postgraduate degree from an Ivy goes a long way because of their reputation. It will open up a lot of research opportunities. Many in the Ivies have been criticized for being "elitist," by many sources including Columbia's sister school, Barnard. They are comparative in education to Columbia (many prefer Barnard's caring undergrad profs to Columbia's who focus on grads), and Barnard students can take classes at Columbia, but many report that they are looked down upon and harassed when they cross the street to go to class. Though, this isn't completely typical, so don't let it influence your opinion too much. They are all very expensive, but most have fantastic financial aid (at least for nationals; I don't know about for internationals).