<p>Are you just trying to incite people?</p>
<p>The list is of course arbitrary - if you include those schools, why not include a whole bunch more? Amherst and Smith are there, but not Swarthmore or Williams?</p>
<p>I hear the term “Ivy Plus” rarely. When I have, it’s usually in reference to the Ivies + Stanford and MIT. Michele Hernandez actually has a copyright on it (shouldn’t this be a trademark?) - “Ivies Plus©” - which includes only those 10.</p>
<p>In the end this is a pointless endeavor, akin to trying to name the “public Ivies” or the “international Ivies” or the “LAC Ivies.” The Ivy League has 8 arbitrarily-chosen colleges, but they are the only official ones. Without that official membership, the arbitrariness runs amok.</p>