<p>They **** me off. I mean seriously, every time I read a chance thread that asks for the chances of getting into Ivy League schools like Stanford and MIT... errrrrrrrghhhh!</p>
<p>The Ivy League is Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Brown, Penn, Cornell, Dartmouth, Columbia. That's it!</p>
<p>Other good schools like MIT, Stanford, Chicago, Duke, etc. are not in the Ivy League. Stop sounding ignorant and thinking that all good schools are Ivy League. That's like saying that because Boise State has a good football team that its in the SEC.</p>
<p>hollaa at that (living in an Ivy League town I feel your pain).</p>
<p>However I think it’s a little more annoying when people ask you where you’re applying and because it ISN’T in an Ivy (despite maybe having higher rankings or the best program in the country for what you want to study) they give you that pitying reaction like “wow you must have ****ed uppp high school”</p>
<p>So frustrating. My sister is an alumni interviewer for Georgetown and she gets MULTIPLE people tell her they “want to attend Georgetown because they’ve always wanted to go to an Ivy League school.” Lets just say she didn’t give them the best recommendation.</p>
<p>Your so very right and people should “Stop sounding ignorant” by calling a microwave, a microwave oven, don’t they understand that the term oven should be reserved for the box under the cooktop. They **** me off. I mean seriously (or not so seriously). :)</p>
<p>Who cares? I went to Harvard, and it doesn’t bother me when people think that schools like Stanford, Georgetown, Colgate, and Northwestern are Ivy League. Why should it bother you? It’s not as if their beliefs interfere with your life.</p>
<p>Yeah, seriously, who cares? It’s like people calling all mp3 players “iPods” these days. Sure, there’s plenty of other brands but they all accomplish basically the same purpose and are typically unrecognizable from each other by the general public.</p>
<p>Besides, Ivy League is just a sports conference anyway, it’s not a secret club of elite schools. I would argue that in many ways, UChicago is better than many Ivy League schools and that Stanford is easily equivalent to Harvard, Yale, and Princeton.</p>
<p>Northstarmom went to Harvard? CC REVELATION. I did not know that. Unfortunately I have little else to contribute to this thread. This isn’t a problem for me since I still have people ask me where the University of Pittsburgh is. I have bigger problems to deal with than limiting the Ivies to those eight schools.</p>
<p>I’m not “limiting” the ivies. All I’m saying is that it shows a person’s ignorance on colleges if they think that the Ivy League is something other than a sports conference. Personally, I think that MIT and Stanford are better than half the Ivies, but I wouldn’t say that they’re Ivy League schools. MIT is in the NEWMAC (mostly) and Stanford is in the PAC10.</p>
<p>Lighten up Buddy. No one cares. There is the technically correct definition reflecting its origins, and there is the everyday use of the term that has come to mean something broader but equally understood. As you discover, words and labels evolve in use and- gasp! - often have more than one meaning! Get over it.</p>
<p>For those who insist Ivy League is <em>only</em> an athletic league and nothing more, note that the term was in popular use for at least 20 years prior to the formation of the athletic league in 1954.</p>
<p>"The Ivy League is an athletic conference comprising eight private institutions of higher education in the Northeastern United States. The term is most commonly used to refer to those eight schools considered as a group.[2] The term also has connotations of academic excellence, selectivity in admissions, and social elitism.</p>
<p>The term became official, especially in sports terminology, after the formation of the NCAA Division I athletic conference in 1954,[3] when much of the nation polarized around favorite college teams. The use of the phrase is no longer limited to athletics, and now represents an educational philosophy inherent to the nation’s oldest schools.[4] ]"</p>
<p>A lot of people in the UK don’t know which schools comprise the Ivy League. When you try to ask them, many would mention Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Cornell then any of the following schools:</p>
<p>Stanford
Berkeley
Duke
William & Mary
MIT
Caltech</p>
<p>Of course, many can also hit 6 to 7 out of the 8 real member schools. But many don’t.</p>