If the Ivy League decided to include another college...

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<p>Which would you think it should be?</p>

<p>EDIT: NO west coast schools. Sorry, but please stick to east coast :]</p>

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<p>Stanford, but if it has to be on the northeast, then prolly Swathmore college</p>

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<p>Why even post this? Everyone is just going to say “STANFORD, HANDS DOWN. OMG.”.</p>

<p>Edit:</p>

<p>I can see the future.</p>

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<p>Northwestern is the obvious choice. It’s a better fit there than in the Big 10.</p>

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<p>Aww, why only northeast? I was going to say Duke or Emory if south was allowed. Is JHU allowed? Where is Maryland in terms of region?</p>

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<p>University of Chicago or William & Mary</p>

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<p>Maybe MIT or Duke? I think Duke, Hopkins and U of Chicago definitely deserve to be part of the Ivy League =]</p>

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<p>How bout Tufts? It can finally lose the rep of being an Ivy backup. Plus, I think Tufts is amazing and is underrated… should be at least top 25, which it isn’t according to USNEWS</p>

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<p>I didn’t say northeast, silly. I said east coast =P</p>

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<p>The Ivy league is not going to add anyone. It’s a sports league in reality and nothing else. How about schools like Tufts, Hopkins, are not Div 1 schools (except Hopkins lacrosse) and Chicago dropped out of the Big 10 50 years ago to deemphasize athletics. </p>

<p>We shouldn’t fixate on Ivy League…if you ranked the 8 Ivy schools from Harvard to Brown, here’s a list of “non-Ivys” that would fall somewhere within that list…Stanford,MIT,Northwestern,Duke,Johns Hopkins,Rice, CalTech, Vanderbilt,Carnegie Mellon…</p>

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<p>For east coast only…MIT is the most selective but its not as well-rounded, so probably JHU or Duke</p>

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<p>MIT is the best fit both location-wise and academically.</p>

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<p>^ But MIT is a D3 school, and the Ivy League is an athletic conference with mostly D1 teams.</p>

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<p>Duke. It’s already the Ivy of the South (though this has been debated on CC before).</p>

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<p>Carnegie Mellon seems like a great bet…</p>

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<p>University of Chicago > Ivy league ~</p>

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<p>good DI athletics + prestige in the east: either Northwestern, Duke, or Michigan (Michigan is public though)</p>

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<p>Even though the question is more theoretical and not technically based (which is based on an athletic league), it is with the following that I would include based upon sound academics, and not merely on an athletic league qualifier or the argument of private vs. public university criteria:</p>

<p>Berkeley and Virginia - The two, arguably finest and most respected public universities in the world. </p>

<p>Cal (UC) Berkeley has virtually more Nobel Laureates and it ranks in the top 10 categories of virtually all the liberal arts, sciences, business and humanities (35 of 36 categories by the National Research Council’s most recent survey.) No other university in America has that distinction.</p>

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<p>Just for fit, either Duke because of sports (of course it would become worse at basketball with academic index), ore one of those prestigious LACs in the New England area.</p>

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<p>Because I do not want to pull a team out of their current big athletic conference (Northwestern, Duke), pick a public school (UMich, UVa, UNC, W&M), pick a school that isn’t very well-rounded (MIT), pick a school where athletics are fairly nonexistant (UChicago, Carnege Mellon, Tufts, NYU), nor pick a LAC (insert all top LACS here), I would pick Johns Hopkins because of their strong academics and prominent sports, especially in lacrosse where they annually play top ivy leagues anyway. Although the rest of their sports are D3, they are strong enough to be md-tier D1.</p>