If the Ivy League added 2 schools, which would they be?

College Search & Selection
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<p>Suppose the Ivy League were to add 2 new colleges. Which 2 would cause the least uproar among the current 8 colleges? Tufts? Carnegie Mellon? Georgetown? Colgate? William & Mary? Wesleyan? Brandeis? NYU?</p>

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<p>Rutgers. It is one of the oldest schools!</p>

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<p>No frigging way...Rutgers...ha!</p>

<p>Let's see...good schools in the Northeast...</p>

<p>Colgate and perhaps Tufts</p>

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<p>Well, assuming the geography of the schools didn't matter, probably something like Stanford and Duke.</p>

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<p>they'd want teams with horrible athletics -- not duke or stanford.... probably add like UChicago and MIT or sometin</p>

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<p>haha just when i thought people cant get any lamer</p>

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<p>Georgetown and Tufts</p>

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<p>I'm sure whoever they picked would tweak their sports up or down to fit the Ivy model (e.g., MIT would get a football team or outsource it to the Boston College junior varsity; Georgetown would upgrade football & downgrade basketball).</p>

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<p>Wesleyan and Colgate</p>

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<p>Tufts and MIT</p>

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<p>i always thought stanford and duke were ivies</p>

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<p>They would add Stanford and MIT considering everyone already thinks these two are members of the ivy league... </p>

<p>which we all know is not true... nor will the ancient eight erase their "ancient" title and make it "top ten?"</p>

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<p>MIT is the best fit in terms of prestige and geography. And not-so-great athletics. :p</p>

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<p>
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I'm sure whoever they picked would tweak their sports up or down to fit the Ivy model (e.g., MIT would get a football team...

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Uh, MIT already has a football team... and forty other NCAA-recognized varsity sports. :confused:</p>

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<p>Stanford and Duke!!</p>

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<p>they should add 3</p>

<p>Stanford, MIT, and Duke</p>

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<p>stanford mit</p>

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<p>duke would be my third add</p>

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<p>along with u of chicago which actually should likely be added before duke</p>

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<p>I know this is a foreign concept for some of you, but at some point, REALITY has to take a role in this discussion. In other words, geography (unlike size) DOES matter. Brown isn't going to pay $50,000 to send its junior varsity field hockey team out to Palo Alto. Or maybe it would?</p>

<p>I think it's obvious: Georgetown and William & Mary. Both are old as dirt; they are about the right size; both have graduate schools; and it opens up the Ivy League to the DC scene (Georgetown) and the sunbelt (W&M). Problem is Georgetown is Catholic and W&M is public, and most Ivy types would rather sell their polo ponies to the glue factory than mix with Catholics and public-school riff-raff.</p>