<p>How about some suggestions for less-selective alternatives to top schools, that have the same vibe or other similar characteristics?</p>
<p>For example:
Yale---Rice
Brown--Tufts
Columbia--Chicago</p>
<p>Brown: Wesleyan, Oberlin
Dartmouth: Middlebury
Columbia: NYU
Harvard: Amherst</p>
<p>Penn: Michigan
Princeton: Williams</p>
<p>These aren’t Ivies, per se, but how about:
Duke: Wake Forest
Stanford: Pomona</p>
<p>U of Virginia: Miami (Ohio)
Tufts: Clark University
USC: Miami (FLA), SMU
Vanderbilt: Tulane
Wake Forest: Furman
U of Rochester: Union College (NY)
Penn or Johns Hopkins: Case Western Reserve
Berkeley: U of Colorado, U of Oregon
UCLA: San Diego State
U of North Carolina-Chapel Hill: Kansas
Angelina Jolie: Mila Kunis</p>
<p>Dartmouth- Colgate, Hamilton, Denison
Cornell- Michigan
Carnegie Mellon- Case Western
U Chicago- Kalamazoo
Northwestern- UM-Twin Cities
Michigan- UW Madison
Wash U in St. Louis- U Rochester
MIT- RPI
Rice- Tulane
U Notre Dame- U Dayton, Marquette
Boston College- Villanova, U Scranton
Stanford- Pepperdine
Reed- Evergreen State (Washington)
Georgetown- American, George Washington
Middlebury- Bennington</p>
<p>Let’s see if we can combine some of these:
Yale-Rice-Tulane
Brown-Tufts, Wesleyan, Oberlin-Clark
Columbia-Chicago-NYU-Kalamazoo
Harvard-Amherst
Dartmouth-Middleburry-Colgate, Hamilton, Denison, Bennington
Penn-Michigan, Hopkins-Case Western
Princeton-Williams
Cornell-Michigan-UW Madison
Duke-Wake Forest-Furman, Elon
Stanford-Pomona-Pepperdine
UVa-Miami of Ohio
USC: Miami (FLA), SMU
Vanderbilt: Tulane
U of Rochester: Union College (NY)
Berkeley: U of Colorado, U of Oregon
UCLA: San Diego State
Carnegie Mellon-Case Western
Northwestern- UM-Twin Cities
Wash U in St. Louis- U Rochester
MIT- RPI
U Notre Dame- U Dayton, Marquette
Boston College- Villanova, U Scranton
Reed- Evergreen State (Washington)
Georgetown-George Washington-American</p>
<p>Brown- Massachuettes Institute of Technology
Columbia- University of California- Los Angeles
Dartmouth- Cornell University
Harvard- Stanford University
Pennslyvania- Washington University in St. Louis
Princeton- Duke University
Yale- University of Chicago</p>
<p>So far the two that seem most questionable to me are Brown-MIT and Northwestern-Minnesota. Don’t see any correlation between Brown and MIT, and besides both being great places to freeze one’s ass off, I don’t get NU-Minnesota.</p>
<p>OK, now for some discussion. Coolbrezze, I don’t know if your suggestions are serious or tongue-in-cheek, but let’s talk about a couple of them. I hardly think MIT is a tier down from Brown, or that somebody who loves Brown will be particularly interested in MIT–but maybe you know something I don’t. Princeton-Duke makes some sense, but Duke isn’t much less selective than Princeton these days. I think Chicago is a better backup to Columbia (since they both have a core) than to Yale, but again, it makes some sense.
I think maybe WashU is a sensible backup for Harvard or Yale, perhaps Penn as well.</p>
<p>Oh, I wasn’t comparing them base on which would be a good backup, though which attract same students by interest etc…</p>
<p>Yeah, but Brown and MIT? What’s up with that?</p>
<p>The Princeton-Duke thing is quite on target, and from what I hear, Duke is even more of a Joizy experience than Princeton is.</p>
<p>Most of these matchups don’t really constitute “less selective” alternatives really, but many of them are similar (amhest-harvard, stanford-pomona, princeton-williams).</p>
<p>Stanford-Pepperdine?? I did a triple take on that one. Give the religious vibe a Pepperdine (although I’ve heard second hand it’s not as strong as it used to be), no way. Also, the Palo Alto area outshines Malibu for many. Pepperdine gets the beach though, hands down. Stanford gets the academics, hands down. Sorry, I don’t see much commonality.</p>
<p>Maybe what Coolbreeze was getting at is that the geeky Harry Potter fans who would normally gravitate towards MIT are now going to be stalking Emma Watson at Brown.</p>
<p>Maybe there should be a thread in which two seemingly dissimilar colleges are named, and it’s up to each poster to come up with a creative reason someone would like both of them.</p>
<p>Dartmouth - Northwestern, Amherst, Williams, Duke, Stanford, Middlebury, Princeton</p>
<p>University of Hiroshima: University of Detroit</p>
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<p>Aye, ditto for columbia-chicago.</p>
<p>I would question the Dartmouth-Northwestern pair. One is secluded and rural while the other is very close to a huge city. And one is very pre-professional while the other has a more intellectual feel to it.</p>