<p>i live near an ivy (Yale :D) and everyone says im so lucky.... but since i grew up around it, it's just good ol' yale to me :) i view farther places like harvard and brown and stanford (not an ivy, but you know) in complete awe, they seem so magical to me hahaha. not saying that i appreciate yale any less or that i think it's under the other schools, i'm just used to being around it/going to it.</p>
<p>does anybody else live near ivies? how do you view them?</p>
<p>i live near harvard, and it definitely takes away a lot of the intrigue. i guess since i walk past it every time i’m in cambridge (i’m not in the city but i’m near enough to go in fairly often) it’s just there, and i don’t really care. i think being around it has also made me see how pretentious it is, and because of harvard’s attitude i’ve basically ruled out all of the ivies, so the only one i might apply to is brown. i don’t know if this really has to do with my proximity to the school, it’s just how i view the schools as a whole. </p>
<p>honestly i don’t see what the big deal is with the ivy league. there are a lot of schools that are just as good; these schools have just been around for longer but everyone gets so excited over them above all other schools just because they’re in a certain sports league (and yes, that is the only actually discernible difference between them and other schools). i see people liking a particular ivy because of a program or a personality, but i don’t get liking ivies just because they’re ivies.</p>
<p>I’ve never been to an ivy but I always pictured them to be like Hogwarts. LoL</p>
<p>living near yale and seeing it everyday has “ruined” the mystical image of it</p>
<p>nttATL ^ i think harvard might look like hogwarts lol</p>
<p>^they claim that, i think mainly referring to the dining hall which they won’t let you see on tours. i’m familiar with the campus and i don’t get that vibe, though it might be hogwarts-like for some.</p>
<p>the scariest thing about yale to me is the huge looming gate… but other than that i love it</p>
<p>I wonder why more schools didn’t/don’t use that kind of architecture?</p>
<p>I don’t really have strong opinions about them, they’re just there. Brown is my dream school because of the atmosphere, the open curriculum, the professors, and the “comfort” (I used to visit a lot when my dad lived in RI, my stepmom went there for grad school) not because it’s an Ivy (I kind of wish it wasn’t so it’s be easier to get into :P).</p>
<p>They’re old schools, but lots of schools are old. They’re good schools, but lots of schools are good.</p>
<p>The Ivy League Sports Conference itself? Not fond of it, as it is too often glorified. Not to mention, they excluded natural members because they had Catholic foundings (JFK gave a speech on this, I believe).</p>
<p>I laugh when they’re called “The Ancient Eight.” First, no school in America is ancient. Nothing like the University of Bologna (isn’t that a great name). Second, there are US universities (William & Mary, Rutgers, UVA, Georgetown) older than some or most (in W&M’s case) of the Ivy League.</p>
<p>Good schools, but terms like “the Ivies” crack me up.</p>
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<p>It’s the same with people. Your parents’ work associates are probably much more impressed with them than you are. You see them every day. For you it’s no big deal. This is true even for the children of rock stars, movie stars, and other celebs. The magic that others imagine never existed for them.</p>
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<p>No, the schools that eventually formed the Ivy League pioneered college football in the 1880s and 1890s, and were one anothers’ true athletic rivals. And with the exception of Cornell, being seven of the nine colleges in operation during the American Colonial period, they’ve been one anothers’ peer institutions for centuries. I can’t think of another prospective Ivy League member that would have been “natural” for inclusion in the group.</p>
<p>wasn’t rutgers the 8th founded?</p>
<p>couruer-- exactly :D</p>
<p>jason-- i feel that way too! <em>cough</em> MIT <em>cough</em></p>
<p>it’s not an ivy, but still amazing</p>
<p>I honestly think they look ugly.</p>
<p>The best in the world. The pinnacle of education at all levels for at least another two decades.</p>
<p>^^ Hahahaha me too.</p>
<p>I live near Stanford, and everyone in our area regards it as the Holy Grail of schools. In the eyes of parents in this area, the rankings should go (1)Harvard/Stanford, (2)Yale (3) Princeton (4)Berkley/UCLA/rest of Ivies (5) die as an unsuccessful hobo schools. ^^</p>
<p>where’s MIT in all of that? ^^</p>
<p>^_^</p>
<p>i live on penn’s campus. I love the area, but I had no intentions of applying to penn. I’m a senior, and I found myself comparing myself to penn because that is what I know. I’m pretty sure thats why I fell in love with BU. I would love to go to grad school at penn though. I’ve never seen any other ivy league campus except Harvard. That was super cool because of all the historical buildings on campus. Also reminded me of Penn somewhat.</p>
<p>Penn is held in pretty high esteem in Philly…its the largest employer.</p>
<p>Q: How do I view the Ivies?<br>
A: Very infrequently, until I joined CC.</p>
<p>Honestly, I’m simply blown away by the Ivy-mania here - every week, there’s a thread or two ranking them, dissecting them, slicing and dicing them … it’s incredible! Other than Cornell, none of them even made my interest list for my high-stats techie kid; and even then, I certainly wasn’t thinking, “Cornell’s an Ivy.”</p>
<p>Are there other places like this? Am I just living a sheltered life?</p>
<p>CPU: Depends on what your major is. 
Most people are engineers around here, so MIT goes at the top of the list with Harvard/Stanford, but my friend applied to MIT as a polysci major and people freaked out.</p>