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What makes a school "Ivy League"?

The designation "Ivy League" first appeared at the typewriter of Caswell Adams of the New York Tribune in 1937. The tag, premature of any formal agreement, was immediately adopted by the press as a foreshadowing of an eastern football league which, at the time, was big news to everyone except the athletic directors involved.

 
Being
Cornell, Yale, Harvard, Columbia, UPenn, Dartmouth, or Princeton helps.
Did I miss one?
Sure did. Damn you, Brown 🙂
 
Same thing that makes a school BIG TEN or ACC - It's a league. It just happens that the schools that make up the league are 8 of the oldest and best schools in the country...

That and the fact that everyone has 1300+ SATs and the girls are ugly...

The Ivy Schools are:
Harvard
Yale
Cornell
Dartmouth
Princeton
U. of Pennsylvania
Columbia
Brown

(UPenn, Class of '91)
 
Ivy, Shmivy...The Ivy League ain't so great anymore. Any of these schools can give a run for the money.
In no particular order:

Universities:
Duke
Rice
Georgetown
Stanford
U of M
Berkeley
UVA


Lib Arts:
Amherst
Wellesley
Swarthmore
Haverford
Williams
Smith
Bryn Mawr
Vassar (you know it, bizatch)
Wesleyan
Bowdoin
Middlebury

 


<< Ivy, Shmivy...The Ivy League ain't so great anymore. Any of these schools can give a run for the money.
In no particular order:

Universities:
Duke
Rice
Georgetown
Stanford
U of M
Berkeley
UVA >>




don't forget MIT 🙂
 


<< Ha! Udub owns them all! Right, Gopunk? >>




damn skippy! unless i can't get into their CS, and have to to another school. in which case that school would own them all and the UW would suck ass 😛
 


<< Ivy, Shmivy...The Ivy League ain't so great anymore. Any of these schools can give a run for the money.
In no particular order:

Universities:
Duke
Rice
Georgetown
Stanford
U of M
Berkeley
UVA >>


Woohoo! We made your list 🙂
 
Ivy, Shmivy...The Ivy League ain't so great anymore. Any of these schools can give a run for the money.
In no particular order:

Universities:
Duke
Rice
Georgetown
Stanford
U of M
Berkeley
UVA


Lib Arts:
Amherst
Wellesley
Swarthmore
Haverford
Williams
Smith
Bryn Mawr
Vassar (you know it, bizatch)
Wesleyan
Bowdoin
Middlebury


Yeah, being Ivy doesn't mean much of anything; it all depends on your department regardless. The best schools across the board are, in no particular order, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Berkeley, University of Chicago, Stanford, Georgetown. . . potentially Northwestern, MIT, Duke . . . Rice, U of M on the waiting list, and I don't know enough about UVA other than they're great with early american history.

Then again, maybe I'm entirely wrong. Regardless I'm sure I've missed some schools.

Edit: My only knowledge of cal is math/engineering/et al, so I can't speak about it. Heard Good Things about it though.
 
There are actually requirments for becoming ivy league...

There are several more ivy league schools then the aforementioned ones. Requirements include certain average SAT and highschool GPA and also that there is a building of at least some odd number of years old located on the main campus. This is, at least, according to my university newspaper.

In theory we are supposed to become "Ivy league" within the next ten years. The only thing stopping this from happening, according to the faculty and administration, is that we only have one building fullfilling the age requirement, and it is located on our liberal arts campus, which is seperate from our engineering campus.

BTW, I'm refering to Clarkson University, you may have heard of us because of our hockey team, the Golden Knights.
 
The interesting thing is Chicago, wasn't _Wow, Chicago!_ until maybe 15 years ago. It was a calculated plan to shoot up, and they did it.

Oh, and lest I forget: Reed College. More Rhodes Scholars than anyone else. Refuses to be ranked by USNews. BRILLIANT students. Ultra-liberal. Only 60% graduate <--lots of drugs.
 
As I go there and all, I know a little more than I'd like about Chicago.

It's always been something of a sleeper; great for grad schools, but many don't like it for undergrad. That said, undeniable (though I'd like to deny it) broad range of studies for undergrad. It shot up in prominence after Milton Friedman became the economics king of the world . . . too bad the econ department is a machine.

Anyway, it's always been a sleeper hit for graduate studies/research.

I'm not at all familar with Reed, other than the name. Where is it/what are its specialties?
 


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<< Ha! Udub owns them all! Right, Gopunk? >>




damn skippy! unless i can't get into their CS, and have to to another school. in which case that school would own them all and the UW would suck ass 😛 >>



UW Economics and Informatics rock!!! 😀
 


<< Yeah, being Ivy doesn't mean much of anything; it all depends on your department regardless. The best schools across the board are, in no particular order, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Berkeley, University of Chicago, Stanford, Georgetown. . . potentially Northwestern, MIT, Duke . . . Rice, U of M on the waiting list, and I don't know enough about UVA other than they're great with early american history.

Then again, maybe I'm entirely wrong. Regardless I'm sure I've missed some schools. >>


Whatever...as long as you included Cal, your list is fine...
 
Heh. I only got 1270 on the SATs, and Cornell welcomed me with open arms. Of course, having teachers who absolutey loved me didn't help when recommendation time came around.

Oh, and for the record, there are a LOT of cute women on campus. Just stay the hell away from the engineers. *shudder*
 
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