<p>I'm recently accepted by UR.
I saw on some websites that UR was judged to be one of the 25 universities which will be the future IVY. I'm wondering if this is true.. Since I'm a international student, I'm not so familiar with the reputation of UR in US.
Do anyone here know about it?
Thank you very much!</p>
<p>Yes, I think it is true, though I’m not really sure what Ivy means anymore. It’s a very good school and is in the upper rank of schools.</p>
<p>I’ve noted in other threads that outside of kids applying to school not many in the general public have heard of Washington University because it isn’t in Washington, DC and isn’t in Washington State but is in St. Louis. It is also one of the best schools. </p>
<p>I suppose “Ivy” is short for something but it seems now to mean “really well known.” I’m not even sure that’s true for Ivies because the average citizen largely knows of Harvard & Yale and then likely Princeton, Columbia and maybe Dartmouth. Lots of people are confused by Penn and Cornell and Brown, the first two because they get confused with public schools and the latter because it still manages to have a lower profile in society. The difference there is everyone knows the first two, many to most know the next group and the last group often requires mentioning they’re in the so-called “Ivy League.” I like to point out the Ivy League is actually an athletic conference, not a grouping of schools by academic rankings. That’s all it is, just a sports schedule. </p>
<p>Name recognition doesn’t mean as much in the US as it does in some countries. We have - or at least have had - a fairly open economic system in which the name on the degree is not that important. International students sometimes tend to impose their exposure to their country’s class system in which school A leads to X and school B leads to Y. That isn’t true here. </p>
<p>Take law school, for example. Because law schools admit with a heavy emphasis on LSAT scores, they favor high scoring kids and thus more kids from a school like Yale are likely to get in because they scored high on the SAT and that correlates to scoring high on the LSAT. It isn’t the school or the education received but the skew of that particular admissions process. So people mistakenly think that going to Yale gives you a better shot when in fact it’s more that you score well enough to go to Yale so that ability to score gives you a better shot. You could go elsewhere and score just as well on the LSAT. </p>
<p>In sum, UR is a very good school. It is known in academia, particularly in the sciences but in a number of humanities fields as well. But you need to understand that recognition, meaning prestige, is not the same in the US as it is in many countries. If you’re getting a US degree to take home, you obviously need to consider how schools are viewed there not here.</p>
<p>I think that most people haven’t heard of it, unless they’re searching which college to attend.</p>
<p>In 2008 Newsweek picked 25 “new ivies”, schools that would provide an education equal in quality to the Ivy League schools. UR was one of the schools chosen. </p>
<p>The “Ivy League” (registered trademark) is an athletic league formed in the 1950’s with 8 members. The term “ivy league” (lower case) is often applied to old, traditional northeastern colleges. There are little ivies, women’s ivies, public ivies, etc. etc, etc., but the actual Ivy League schools are those in the athletic conference.</p>
<p>hahalolk:</p>
<p>Some hear UR and think it’s a SUNY campus. </p>
<p>Those in the sciences, have heard of it and attest to its quality. Our pediatrician went to UR, as did my opthamologist.</p>
<p>At the risk of repeating but in shorter form, overseas there is a perception of the so-called “Ivy League,” partly because distance simplifies, partly because other countries have more prestige-oriented tracks for education that lead into specific careers. We don’t have that kind of prestige system to a significant degree.</p>