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<p>That’s exactly what other people are doing by discussing the fact that classifying all of the ivies under one umbrella is really missing a significant point. Saying “life at Penn will be different from life at Yale and might be closer to life at <em>such-and-such nonIVY</em> than to any other IVY” is just like if you said, “I live in rural england and that will be different from life in Paris.”</p>
<p>I think the question the OP asked (“How much work, freetime etc…so I can make the right choices.”) implied that he or she is early in the process and doesn’t know a lot about college life in general, and everyone else is just trying to give advice they believe to be relevant. What’s wrong with that?</p>