<p>Is this yet another reason so many think they're elitist?</p>
<p>There’s also an on-line dating thing (like Match.com) called “The Right Stuff” for grads of the ivys plus a small list of other “appropriate” schools. I looked at it at one point when I was single, it was just as pretentious as you might imagine.</p>
<p>Wo-o-o-w, look who made the cut in the “plus” category - UW medical school!</p>
<p>[The</a> Ivy Plus Society Home Page](<a href=“http://ivyplussociety.org/clubportal/ClubStatic.cfm?clubID=362&pubmenuoptID=18121]The”>http://ivyplussociety.org/clubportal/ClubStatic.cfm?clubID=362&pubmenuoptID=18121)</p>
<p>Pfft!</p>
<p>LOL - There’s a select list of Alma Maters for “The Right Stuff” but a degree from any old med school will qualify you.</p>
<p>I notice they include no LACs. I guess Amherst and Williams grads just aren’t up to snuff…Very weird.</p>
<p>ya Weskid we don’t want D2 associating with your type.
Or, I guess D1’s type either…</p>
<p>I like that include Cambridge, but not Oxford. (By the way, Cambridge is not a college, it is a university, not sure they would necessarily want some one from some of the Cambridge colleges)</p>
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<p>They’re all over at The Right Stuff, sizing up the goods. ;)</p>
<p>I read the article in the Times on Sunday…and there were people interviewed who were at the mixer who weren’t alumni of any of the listed schools.</p>
<p>lololu,</p>
<p>You obviously don’t have a very firm grasp of the differences between Cambridge colleges. While a few stand out as the richest, oldest, etc. the students at all colleges are similarly stellar. Further, all students in a given course attend the same lectures, take the same exams, and receive the same University of Cambridge degree.</p>
<p>Vastly, the point is that they are making their choices of “allowed” schools on their own presumed social prestige of the schools, not on academic quality of either the school or the students. There is no mistaking that some colleges at Cambridge carry more social prestige then others, while all if fact do have have stellar students and academics.</p>
<p>Oxford has stellar students as well, as do a number of other Colleges and Universities around the world, but for some reason they don’t appear on the list. I expect it is more that no one on the organizing committee has a friend who graduated from Oxford, Notre Dame, Northwestern, University of Michigan (undergrad), who they feel is their “social equal”</p>
<p>Hmmm…both my by daughters, and my wife too should she decide to start dating again for some reason, qualify for membership in this club. But not me, nor the dog. Being an old UC Davis Aggie is just not cool enough I guess. Probably going to <em>any</em> school known as the the Aggies is grounds for immediate disqualification.</p>
<p>I know a couple who met at one of these things and got married. Three children later, it seems to have worked out pretty well.</p>