To go to a small Ivy League College means class sizes are small and professors have more time to devote to each student. Students in less Ivy League colleges also have less competition for SU and scholarships. Students can choose from both urban and rural campuses among the three least Ivy. Each have different strengths in art, engineering, and medicine, as well as the natural and social sciences.
Dartmouth College
With an undergraduate population of less than 4200 in 2009, Dartmouth College is the smallest of the Ivy League schools. Classes have a 8-to-1 student-to-faculty ratio. Dartmouth has 57 majors and programs, the most popular of them are biology, economics, engineering, English, Government, history and psychological and brain sciences. Dartmouth Dickey Center and Rockefeller Student programs prepare students for leadership roles in a number of off-campus learning opportunities, including international internships and a first-year Fellows Program in public policy, that pairs students with Dartmouth Alumni in Washington, D.C., Leslie center for the Humanities offers annual research and development activities scholarships and grants in support of students pursuing research or participate in conferences who want to further their education. Admission is competitive, but more than 60 percent of Dartmouth for the 2009 class went to public high schools. Over 90 percent were in the top 10 percent of their class
Dartmouth College
The Office of Undergraduate Admissions
6016 McNutt Hall
Hanover, NH 03755
603. -646-2875
dartmouth.edu
Princeton University
Princeton in 2009 incoming undergraduate class on good 5000 places it as the second smallest of the Ivy. Princeton boasts a 5-to-1 student-to-faculty ratio. Students can work towards their Bachelor of Arts degrees in 29 departments and serve one of 42 programs interdisciplinary certificate. For the first two years, all students fulfill general academic requirements. In the spring of sophomore year, they can select a major. Students pursuing a Bachelor of Science in engineering choose one of the following six departments in the spring of freshman year: chemical, civil and environmental, computer science, electrical, mechanical, and aerospace applications or operations research and financial engineering. Princeton supports 75 research centres that promote interdisciplinary scholarship and hosts Princeton Plasma Physics and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratories. Princeton does not accept transfer students.
Princeton University
Undergraduate Admission Office
110 West College
PO Box 430
Princeton, NJ 08542
609-258-3060
princeton.edu
Brown University
Brown University’s 6000 Bachelors in 2009, making it the third smallest Ivy League school. Since 2002 has Brown been working on reducing its 9-to-1 student-to-faculty ratio of hiring 100 new faculty members. Since 1969 have Brown followed the new curriculum, which encourages individuality, experimentation and interdisciplinary scholarship. Freshmen and sophomores fulfill General course requirements before declare a major by the end of the fourth semester. Undergraduates can pursue a four-year bachelor’s degree in arts or science program or engage in any of the three five-year programs combining a BA with a B.S. or a Bachelor of Fine Arts in connection with Rhode Iceland School of Design. With the guidance and approval of a counselor, a student can also devise its own independent concentration. Admission is competitive, but not dependent on the minimum score. From 2009, Brown fell about 80 percent of its applications.
Brown University
The Office of College Admission
45 Prospect St.
Box 1876
Providence, RI 02912
401-863-2378
brown.edu