<p>just to give you an idea of what they think across the pond, I wore my Cornell sweatshirt in England when I was there 2 summers ago and a guy in one of the British stores I was at said "oh Cornell, that's ivy league isn't it?" He still had this attitude about him that said "well it's still no Oxford or Cambridge" but he did recognize that Cornell is ivy league.</p>
<p>all the ivey league is is an athletics league. cornell isn't top 10. U Chicago isn't Ivey though.</p>
<p>GEEZ....stop misspelling "ivy" people....</p>
<p>Ehhh the Madden Bus, I met an Irish man who congratulated me for going to Amherst College, I'd still say the majority of Irish people have never heard of it (and I doubt most British people have heard of Cornell, either), though certainly a few have.</p>
<p>Speaking of other goods college that are NOT in the ivy league, MIT had been asked to join at one point, but it declined.</p>
<p>I would like to see documentation on that. If you are referring to the late 1800s-early1900s when Harvard's "Scientific School" repeatedly tried to merge with MIT - there was no official Ivy League then.</p>
<p>I heard that the Ivy league was INITIALLY just a group of schools that got together to play football. :P</p>
<p>Chisquared- I think that is the origination of the term. Also read somewhere, that the "Ivy" League was actually the "I V" (Roman numeral) League having to do with the 4 original schools that were apart of this football league.
but I guess today, the connotatation of Ivy League has a whole other meaning!!</p>
<p>To many here in Minnesota, Cornell is a tiny, picturesque college in Iowa.</p>