Just because its in Wikipedia doesn’t mean it’s a thing…
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bigfoot
Ivy League is a sports conference consisting of 8 distinct schools. Stanford, MIT, U Chicago, Duke don’t rely on Ivy comparisons for prestige and neither should the elite publics.
Oh man, this again…
- The vast majority of people who mention "Ivy League" aren't talking about the athletic conference. Yes, it started off as that but the term has evolved.
- Yes, the term exists even though you don't believe it should. There's a book about it and everything. Its a term, people use it. It's a thing.
- None of those schools you listed are "public" so they can't be "public" ivies.
@Mcunn226 Agree. Public Ivy is most assuredly “a thing.” One can debate which schools are included in the concept and whether the reference is meaningful or not, reasonable or not, helpful or not, etc. But it is beyond debate that vast numbers of people use and find value in the nomenclature. I see no harm in it, but I also see little use in debating its value. If one finds it silly, simply ignore it. On to discussions of value…
“One can debate which schools are included in the concept”.
If you can “debate” which school’s are included then the concept is meaningless. The assertion that “vast” numbers of people use the term and find value, yet no consensus of inclusion exists suggests the terms only consistent “value” is as a prestige grab for any public school.
Just because t shirts that say “Broward Community College - Harvard of the south” exist…doesn’t make “Harvard of the South” a thing. Nor does people embracing a self serving and ambiguous term like private Ivy make it a thing.
Accepted to Boston College business school.