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Cornell only because it's campus is beautiful, close to home, Ithaca is a nice little city, it's isolation might be good for studying, but it's actually is a good location to many other cities and seems to be more "down to earth" in comparison to the other Ivies.
Just because it was recently named the best of the IL schools academically, I'll go with Princeton, though you can't go wrong with any of them academically. As for the best location, my personal bias wants to say Penn (Philly) but that's if you prefer an urban setting. I know Columbia is in an awful neighborhood and Brown isn't in quite a nice location as well. Yale is in a questionable area too. The neighborhood Harvard is in is probably the safest for all urban Ivy schools. I like Princeton's location. It's in a peaceful forest, but it's just a hop skip and jump away from either Philly, NY, or the shore. I honestly don't know much where Cornell is and from what I've heard the stereotype of the Dartmouth is drunk is because there's nothing to do in the area.
Brown. I love the east side of providence. Also the most ecletic students I feel. Harvard is ok, too much riff raff in harvard square and the waspy legacy thing for my liking. New Haven is not that nice either, but the campus is nice. Dartmouth is a great place too. I like the city vibe of Columbia and Penn. Princeton, ugh NJ and the legacy thing but atleast the towns nice lol and Cornell, too damn isolated! lol
Just because it was recently named the best of the IL schools academically, I'll go with Princeton, though you can't go wrong with any of them academically. As for the best location, my personal bias wants to say Penn (Philly) but that's if you prefer an urban setting. I know Columbia is in an awful neighborhood and Brown isn't in quite a nice location as well. Yale is in a questionable area too. The neighborhood Harvard is in is probably the safest for all urban Ivy schools. I like Princeton's location. It's in a peaceful forest, but it's just a hop skip and jump away from either Philly, NY, or the shore. I honestly don't know much where Cornell is and from what I've heard the stereotype of the Dartmouth is drunk is because there's nothing to do in the area.
um? have you been to providence? Browns is in the best neighborhood in the city...the east side is gorgeous, full of history and colonial homes.
and fyi harvard square is not as safe as you think it is.
I have visited all of them except Dartmouth. I love the big-city settings of Penn and Columbia, but even more, I love big prestigious universities in university towns. Cornell is as isolated as they come up there in Ithaca, which truly is GORGES. I feel that Yale, Princeton and Brown are in really great settings. Nice small-to-medium size cities, beautiful campuses. I like Harvard Sq and most of Cambridge for that matter, but I really wasn't too impressed with the experience of walking around the grounds at Harvard.
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