<p>How about they split the religious issue down the middle: Georgetown and Brandeis.</p>
<p>stanford and mit</p>
<p>Everyone has got to remember: the Ivy League is an ATHLETIC league, not an academic one! -- Keep it all in perspective, please</p>
<p>Then they should introduce an Honoury year long "Ivy" status for the previous years NCAA champs :p</p>
<p>let's not forget that the "Jesuit Ivy" is Boston College, not Georgetown. either way, i don't think the "Ancient Eight" are becoming the "Timeless Ten" anytime soon.</p>
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<p>Says who? Georgetown has just as much a claim to some made-up designation as BC does.</p>
<p>says John F. Kennedy actually, since he "made up the designation" :)</p>
<p>If the Ivy League is going to add 2 schools, those school should be a private division I school established before the Revolution War. Well, perhaps we can include those private schools founded before 1865, the year Cornell was founded. Are there any private schools that meet the criteria?</p>
<p>Univ of Chicago.....i think</p>
<p>UChicago fulfill t1's criteria. it was founded in 1890 and competes in div III.</p>
<p>i'd go back to Boston College (founded 1827, div I) and Georgetown (founded 1789, div I), with the edge to BC since it already has the Ivy nickname :P</p>
<p>University of Chicago is a Division III school founded in 1890. We need some older private Division I schools.</p>
<p>Duke and Stanford would definetely make it...i think that MIT has the strongest case geographically speaking</p>
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<p>Well great. Too bad JFK isn't actually a definitive authority on these matters, meaning it's still just a made-up designation. So no, you still don't have any right to remind people that BC is THE Jesuit Ivy.</p>
<p>Seriously, this "OMG MY SCHOOL IS THE ____ Ivy" business is ridiculous. You're not an Ivy, and no, you don't have any more of a claim to be the [insert adjective here] Ivy than other schools of similar prestige. Insisting that you are the definitive fake Ivy is just sad.</p>
<p>There is no truth to the rumor that L.H. Oswald was seen wearing a Georgetown sweatshirt in Dallas a few decades ago. None. Jack Ruby, however...</p>
<p>Ivies must be located in the Northeast and have a liberal arts core. I think the only two universities that can be added to the Ivies are Georgetown and Johns Hopkins. MIT is too technical, Tufts and BC aren't prestigious enough, UVA is public, Duke, Rice, Stanford, Chicago and Northwestern are not in the Northeast. Caltech is too technical. Cal and Michigan are publics. LACs just aren't large enough to be Ivies. Yeah, I'd say that Georgetown and Johns Hopkins are the only 2 realistic options.</p>
<p>georgetwon is a Division I school founded in 1789. It would be a good addition to Ivy. John Hopkins was found in 1876, almost as old as Cornell. But the school will have to move up to the Division I to compete will any ivies schools. Its men lacrosse team is already competing in the Division I. The school needs to move up another 23 sports to Division I. I would think that John Hopkins is a good addition too.</p>
<p>Alexander is right. Other schools are just too far away, too small or too technical to be in the Ivies Leagues.</p>
<p>Ivies can barely decide who are their rivals, let alone letting in two lesser ranked schools into the fray.</p>
<p>I'd say Georgetown and MIT.</p>
<p>I'd agree with Alexandre on qualities that make a school "Ivy", but Hopkins and Georgetown can hardly be considered northeast. I don't know why NYU hasn't been mentioned as much as clear misfits like Stanford and Duke (location and athletic prowess, people). NYU is just as northeast as Columbia and is about as prestigious as the lower ivies and isn't exactly known in athletics.</p>
<p>NYU as prestigious as the lower Ivies? Wow, some people with skewed opinions of the world on this site. Are you kidding????</p>