<p>Bing had a ~ 7.5%- 10% acceptance rate this year. Yes, that’s right.</p>
<p>I never said SUNY Bingo was a bad school… and I know it is competitive to get into…
But If we are talking about Public schools with an ivy level experience… I just feel it falls short. I almost went there, have been on campus many times, and know people who graduated from there. It is a great school, and might be the best SUNY college for sure.
But U Michigan, U Virginia, UCB, UCLA, Ga Tech, UNC are in a different class of schools.
They just have more to offer their students. </p>
<p>Maybe some of the better SUNY schools would benefit from shedding the SUNY and just being Binghamton University, University of Buffalo, University at Albany… I know U Alb was pushing for it when I was there…</p>
<p>I don’t know how old your information is, but Binghamton University (UBuffalo, UAlbany and Stony Brook U) dropped the SUNY in the 90’s. A lot has changed in the past 20 years. Any short list of public ivies that doesn’t include Binghamton University is crazy. </p>
<p>Binghamton is not just dificult to get into, it’s ranked #1 of all public universities for value and education by Kiplinger’s for out of state students. It’s ranked above real ivies Cornell and Dartmouth by Forbes. The NY Times recently quoted someone who called Binghamton “the new Harvard”.</p>
<p>The short list of public ivies definitely includes Binghamton, UVA, W&M, UCLA, UCB. The expanded list is debatable.</p>
<p>My brother goes to W&M and I’ve been there many times. That environment is like an ivy school that I’ve seen. UVA is more public in the sense that they are lenient on GPA standards, not too lenient, they bear 3.8’s.</p>
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<p>There’s no way any reasonable short list includes Binghamton but not UNC.</p>
<p>I still think the original “public ivy” list got it best-</p>
<p>W&M
Cal
UNC
UMich
Miami (OH)
UVA
UVM
UT-Austin</p>
<p>Top 5 Publics
Cal
UMich
UVA
UCLA
UNC-Chapel Hill</p>
<p>I agree with you as well Cuse0507.</p>
<p>Non-debatable Public Ivies (In no particular order):
Cal
UCLA
Virginia
North Carolina
Michigan
William and Mary</p>
<p>If your list doesn’t include these six, I can’t take you seriously, unless you have a REALLY good case.</p>
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<p>Really? According to the school’s website, 2400 enrolled out of 26,666 applicants. Is this what you were looking at? It is not the same thing as acceptance rate. According to College Board, the acceptance rate was 40%.</p>
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<p>The university has some nice admissions stats but what is it known for? When I see schools ranked by strength in various fields, I don’t remember seeing them on lists. What does it do so well that it deserves public ivy status?</p>
<p>Georgia Tech is more of a public MIT or public Cal Tech than a “public ivy”.</p>
<p>Vermont and Miami OH–please. They proved Moll was an idiot.</p>
<p>^^^Wisconsin is definitely a public ivy too. Should have been in that first list.</p>
<p>I can’t believe that the University of Phoenix isn’t on this list. Sheesh . . .</p>
<p>Cal
Mich
UNC
UCLA
W&M
Texas
Wisconsin
Florida
Virginia
Illinois
Washington
Binghamton
Minnesota
Georgia Tech</p>
<p>That’s my list (not in order). If you don’t like it, I don’t care.</p>
<p>University of Phoenix is private. ;)</p>
<p>Rutgers.</p>
<p>Sikee.</p>
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<p>Curses, foiled again. There must be a thread for up and coming wannabe Ivy League schools somewhere . . .</p>
<p>Many of the lists on this thread expanded the list of eligible schools so much as render the concept of Public Ivy meaningless. A Public Ivy is a public university that could be an acceptable alternative to a private ivy in terms of its academics and prestige. With very few exceptions, these would be schools with academic quality and prestige outside their state or regionpreferably national appeal.</p>
<p>Not Public Ivies: Illinois, Penn State, Florida, Texas, Washington, Ohio State, SUNY (none of them), New Coll. of Florida, Rutgers, Colorado, Pitt, Delaware, Maryland, Arizona!!!, UC (other than UCB or UCLA), Michigan State!!!, Iowa, Minnesota, Georgia, New Hampshire, Indiana, Delaware, Connecticut, Purdue!!!, service academies, Georgia Tech</p>
<p>The only true Public Ivies: Michigan, Wisconsin, UVA, UNC, UCB, UCLA, Miami of Ohio, Vermont, William & Mary</p>
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Which sport(s) do they participate together? … beach volleyball?</p>
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<p>How do you justify Vermont over a school like Texas? UT has many highly ranked programs. Vermont… not so much. Same goes for Miami of Ohio.</p>
<p>IMHO, it’s best if the list is restricted to, at most, ten schools as this doesn’t cheapen the meaning of the term. (For what it’s worth anyway…)</p>