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Initials » Dartmouth      Princeton      Yale      UPenn      Harvard      Brown      Cornell      Columbia      MIT     
City »Hanover Princeton New Haven Philadelphia Cambridge Providence Ithaca New York Cambridge 
State »NH NJ CT PA MA RI NY NY MA 
Size »6,883 8,096 12,958 28,059 35,535 9,465 22,045 28,604 11,798 
F:M »47.1:52.9 45.0:55.0 50.3:49.7 53.6:46.4 49.7:50.3 52.5:47.5 48.4:51.6 50.4:49.6 36.6:63.4 
ACT »~31.7 ~31.9 ~2223850.9 ~33 ~35.5 ~32.7 ~33.6 ~31.7 ~34.4 
SAT »~1607.7 ~1780.3 ~918669 ~1600.3 ~1743.6 ~1610.9 ~1509.7 ~1554.7 ~1566.9 
Room »$13,446 $13,080 $13,500 $12,922 $14,115 $11,620 $13,678 $11,978 $12,744 
Instate »$46,752 $40,170 $44,000 $45,890 $42,292 $45,612 $45,358 $49,138 $43,498 
Outstate »$46,752 $40,170 $44,000 $45,890 $42,292 $45,612 $45,358 $49,138 $43,498 
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Academic Success »A- B+ A- B+ B+ A- B+ A- 
Usefulwork »A- B+ A- A- B+ A- B+ A- 
Social Life »A- A- B+ B- A- B+ B- 
Extra Curricular »A- A- A- B+ A- B- A- 
Safety »A- B+ B+ B+ A- 
Grounds »A- A- A- B+ A- B+ C+ 
Maintenance »B+ A- B+ B+ B+ A- 
Friendliness »A- B+ A- B+ B- B+ 
Faculty Accessibility »B+ A- B+ A- B+ B+ 
Surrounding City »B- C+ A- B+ A- A- 
Funding Use »A- A- A- B+ B+ A- B+ A- 
Alumni »29/26 yrs 38/31 yrs 39/29 yrs 31/30 yrs 37/25 yrs 49/31 yrs 75/29 yrs 26/29 yrs 33/33 yrs 
Starting Salary »$76,522 $90,179 $52,885 $50,520 $38,333 $62,321 $54,286 $62,790 $111,053 
Current Salary »$327,750 $211,552 $185,227 $192,309 $163,437 $269,355 $217,586 $229,000 $230,000 
10yr Salary »$173,148 $129,458 $98,053 $97,470 $88,176 $128,678 $109,830 $120,103 $147,097 
GoingWell »79.3% 71.1% 56.4% 74.2% 43.2% 81.6% 82.7% 73.1% 81.8% 
JobSatis »75.9% 71.1% 53.9% 74.2% 40.5% 83.7% 77.3% 61.5% 69.7% 
American Indian »2%                 
Asian »12% 15% 12% 14% 12% 11% 14% 12% 16% 
Black »6% 6% 5% 6% 5% 5% 5% 5% 3% 
Hispanic »7% 6% 7% 6% 7% 9% 9% 8% 9% 
International »15% 20% 21% 16% 22% 16% 19% 27% 29% 
White »47% 46% 46% 46% 44% 44% 40% 37% 34% 
Unknown »9% 3% 5% 10% 6% 10% 10% 8% 6% 
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Brown University
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Cornell = Cornell University
Dartmouth = Dartmouth College
Harvard = Harvard University
MIT = Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Princeton = Princeton University
UPenn = University of Pennsylvania
Yale = Yale University


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