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Haha megan, if I remember correctly, molliebatmit got started on CC because she was told people on CC were criticizing MIT's cheerleading squad.
Also a true story. But I'm glad I've stuck around!</p>
<p>...actually, I was thinking today -- being an MIT cheerleader has actually directly gotten me three of the four jobs I've ever had, and indirectly got me the fourth (because of experiences gained from the third). :D</p>
<p>haha...what about West Point? It's really really old, has horrible athletics.</p>
<p>WIlliams/Swarth</p>
<p>come on people...Tufts and Georgetown would make the most sense not considering GTown's religious affiliation</p>
<p>Stanford and Duke.</p>
<p>Georgetown will never be considered, although it is probably the most un-Catholic Jesuit school (or just Catholic school) it would have to be openly not Catholic to become Ivy League. </p>
<p>Ivy League = WASPy, to this day, except now some asian and other minorities thrown in because of their great academic accomplishments</p>
<p>to all the people that said Ivy League schools must be universities... anyone ever heard of Dartmouth College? considering geography, size, and prestige, williams and amherst would fit the bill quite nicely, possibly also wesleyan or swarthmore</p>
<p>Yeah, but Dartmouth is a college in name only, since it has business, engineering and med schools.</p>
<p>amherst and williams, easily</p>
<p>the best LAC's in the country, and they happen to be in ivy league territory.</p>
<p>honestly, I think WASP are the most underrated schools in the country considering they must compete with much more prestigious universities which dont provide as much emphasis on undergraduate education as these 4 schools do.</p>
<p>very true, and i was indeed referring to the name (albeit williams, amherst, and swarthmore are indeed "true" colleges to my knowledge)... and the NESCAC is considered the Little Ivy League, so if anything, all 11 NESCAC members should be absorbed into the ivy league :)</p>
<p>WUSTL and UCHICAGO</p>
<p>I'm surprised no one has mentioned UVa, considering it was the first school to be named a "public ivy." That aside, it also leans towards the liberal arts and is excellent in terms of academics.</p>
<p>Some may say it has too many students, but then again UPenn and Cornell aren't exactly tiny either.</p>
<p>William & Mary is considered "Small public ivy."</p>
<p>Random thoughts while trying to shake the paradigm-shift hangover caused by the sudden awareness that MIT has [attractive] cheerleaders...</p>
<p>...I'm still waiting for Mollie to spill the beans on what sort of mind-bending Vulcan logic was used to get somebody's valedictorian into the beaver outfit...</p>
<p>...can't believe the MIT cheer squad doesn't use its uniqueness to raise money to aid the downtrodden. Selling MIT cheerleader calendars to snowbound engineering students would bring in a fortune. Heck, the proceeds from Clarkston alone would probably be enough to buy every kid in Guatamala a slide rule and pocket protector...</p>
<p>...I also want to know who the magician was in 1998 who convinced the administration that what was missing from the MIT curriculum was bare-bellied cheerleaders and a dude in a polyester beaver suit...that's probably the ONLY person on earth with the persuasiveness profound enough to go over to Baghdad clear up the Iraq mess...I mean how big were her cajones to walk into Dean Wormer's office and say, "Now that the Cold War is over, how's about we put the development of the next generation of ICBMs on the back burner, and shift our focus to supplying our gridiron heroes with the emotional support necessary to survive juggernauts like Amherst and Wesleyan?"...</p>
<p>...anybody see the online MIT Cheerleading Contract? That document has more italicized MUSTs than a nuclear submarine owner's manual...</p>
<p>...Mollie and her girls have done more to put a human face on MIT than x+100 outreach programs could do. They seem to take it seriously without being ridiculous, and have a sense of humor about it without apologizing for it. My hat is off to you...</p>
<p>MIT & Stanford</p>
<p>We actually don't have a regular mascot at the moment. We had a guy who was interested last year (he'd been a mascot in high school), but we lost track of him and I don't think he ended up coming.</p>
<p>In my understanding (and of course this was Before My Time), the squad was started in '98 by a group of girls who had been cheerleaders in high school -- we're a club sport, not a varsity one, so everything we do is student-initiated and student-led. (And mostly student-paid-for, too. Believe me, we'd get on the calendar bandwagon in a second if the administration would let us -- it's better than selling lollipops!)</p>
<p>It's fun to be an MIT cheerleader. I mean, come on, what other cheerleading squad has any members who show up at practice wearing a t-shirt that says "DNA: The Code of Life"? :D (Not that I own such a shirt. Or that I've ever worn it to cheerleading practice. Nooo sir.)</p>
<p>USMA and USNA! GO NAVY!</p>
<p>I'm suprised no one is mentioning UVa. UVa was created by a founding father just like Penn. They have secret societies like Yale. Elite families went there(Kennedys etc.) just like elite families go to Harvard/Yale.</p>
<p>Yes Va is a very good school. Thomas Jefferson=best prez!</p>