<p>Ok..so far: Stanford, MIT, U Chicago, Duke
How about: Johns Hopkins and UCLA too?</p>
<p>na.....</p>
<p>Stanford, MIT, Chicago, Duke, Northwestern, JHU, Wash U, Rice</p>
<p>keep in mind that the schools have to seem like ivies...have that ivy feel to them...places like duke, mit, northwestern, jhu and rice just dont feel ivy</p>
<p>What exactly is that "ivy feel?" The Ivy League schools themselves are very different from one another.</p>
<p>w1cked - UCLA? Why?</p>
<p>Because UCLA is well regarded outside America, and it has good engineering programs.</p>
<p>But it's not really on the level of the other schools mentioned in here. Heck if you're looking at UCs, Berkeley has a stronger claim to be an Ivy-equivalent.</p>
<p>But...UCLA has such a nicer ring to its name!</p>
<p>When I was little I used to read it as uke-la.</p>
<p>I like saying it as oo-k-la-</p>
<p>Sorry, molliebatmit. How could anyone overlook the MIT football team, with all the national ink they get? A few years back, they didn't have one. I figured if they had one, they would have hacked into the BCS computer and put themselves at #1.</p>
<p>Well, we're division III, for godssakes. How many division III football teams get national ink anyway?</p>
<p>I'm looking through the team site... the statistics only go back to 1988, although I can't tell whether that when the team started, or just the earliest we have statistics for...? Certainly MIT had cheerleaders as far back as the 60s, so they must have been cheering for something. (Maybe basketball -- the basketball records go back to 1900.)</p>
<p>About the BCS -- there was a Foxtrot comic a few years back about that.
(Panel 1) TV: "Welcome to the BCS national championship football game, here at the Louisiana Superdome!"
(Panel 2) TV: "Let's begin by acknowledging that there's been some controversy concerning the teams chosen to play for this year's title, but they were determined by computer, and who are we to question that?"
(Panel 3) Jason: "Someday they'll learn."
TV: "Whoa, nelly! MIT has fumbled the coin toss and Caltech goes wild!"
:)</p>
<p>That's very very funny, molliebatmit, I wish I could have heard it. Yeah, I think MIT must have started football in 1988. I recall when I lived around there in the 70's they had every sport BUT football. We locals assumed they didn't have football because they couldn't fit all those brains in a helmet.</p>
<p>Wow, MIT has cheerleaders? What sort of sick fantasy does THAT generate? That's a reality show right there..."Come on, girls, given the tierra firma is the base of the measurement, let's make sure when you kick your leg, it gets up to at least 120 degrees...any of you who are still forming an acute angle can turn in your pom poms and go back to the lab!"</p>
<p>Amherst and Williams/Swarthmore, or Northwestern.</p>
<p>I guess (if geography plays a big role) Tufts and MIT?</p>
<p>If not considering geography (bit unrealistic), schools like Stanford, Duke, Rice, Northwestern, Johns Hopkins, Chicago come to mind (as well as the two I mentioned previously).</p>
<p>Amherst and Williams.</p>
<p>Well, going solely on the idea of the colonial colleges(aside from cornell which i believe was formed much much later), i would add william and mary and rutgers(though it has long left its private dutch reformed roots)</p>
<p>I reckon Bob Jones and South Pensacola for being leaders in "Moral" education</p>
<p>Amherst and Williams.</p>
<p>Or Duke and UVA (pretend it's private)</p>
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Wow, MIT has cheerleaders? What sort of sick fantasy does THAT generate? That's a reality show right there..."Come on, girls, given the tierra firma is the base of the measurement, let's make sure when you kick your leg, it gets up to at least 120 degrees...any of you who are still forming an acute angle can turn in your pom poms and go back to the lab!"
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I will neither confirm nor deny anything. Although I will admit that during the last practice, I used the word "torque" while teaching a stunt to a new freshman, and she knew exactly what I was talking about. ;) And I think being stuck in lab is probably the most common excuse for missing practice, which I don't think is true of many other cheerleading squads around the country.</p>
<p>I don't f#@%ing believe it. You ARE an MIT cheerleader? That is just the coolest thing a female could possibly be...it's like fitting two 10-pound stereotypes into a 5-pound bag. Which is, I'm sure you know, not possible if the stereotypes are liquid and the bag has a fixed 5-pound capacity. Does your team ever get bored with forming a triangular pyramid, and attempt to form an octagon?</p>