<p>No, I don’t think you’re reading here too well:</p>
<p>“Membership and participation in The Ivy Plus Society and its events are limited to those who meet the qualifications set forth below*. However TIPS members and qualified alumni attending events are welcome to bring guests from non-TIPS schools.”</p>
<p>This means that ONLY TIPS members can go unless us non-TIPS schools have the pleasure of “being invited as a guest”. Thanks… I feel so undiscriminated against? </p>
<p>“We have found that alumni of these schools generally share some of the same values, including: appreciation of academic and professional excellence; intellectual curiosity; leadership; and civic and philanthropic engagement.” </p>
<p>So… the TIPS universities are supposedly different in the fact that they produce this specific kind of alumni, while other schools don’t? Um… No? People just like that come from plenty of universities with plenty of different backgrounds. I hate to inform you, but any given HYPSM is in no way better than I am; so why is it that they’ve been selected for this group whereas I have not? </p>
<p>If the society based membership on academic interests, etc. Fine. But, this society bases membership on social elitism based on where you go to school; and that’s clear in the fact that many schools which should be there, but are not as well-known, are not.</p>