<p>Which schools are they?</p>
<p>I believe that those schools would be UC Berkeley, UVa, UNC-CH, UCLA and UMich.</p>
<p>There aren't any...the ivy league is a sports league that comprises dartmouth, cornell, yale, princeton, harvard, columbia, brown, and UPENN, they have commonly become known as "ivy league schools"...there are no other "ivy" schools, I have no idea what this thread is about, if you mean good schools, perhaps you should rephrase yourself.</p>
<p>Rutgers advertises itself over the radio and elsewhere as "The Public Ivy".....lol</p>
<p>If you live in Jersey, you'll see it all the time.</p>
<p>Public Ivies do exists. William and Mary is one of them.</p>
<p>no such thing. uva bills itself as 'the public ivy' though because of its beginnings. why does every school have such ivy envy? get over it...</p>
<p>bing does the same....ivy of suny...i hear every school says they were invited to be ivy.....ehehehe</p>
<p>jyankees and others- many schools are deemed the "Public Ivies" because they are public schools that are on the Ivy league level (which, even though having origins in sports, has come to mean much more). There are also many books written about the Public Ivies.</p>
<p>Generally, those schools are: UC Berkeley, UCLA, UVa, UNC-CH, and sometimes William and Mary.</p>
<p>There is no such thing. Some state universities are very good and many people have used the term Public Ivy to desrcibe them, but there is no such thing.</p>
<p>there IS no such thing. However, "Ivy" has grown out of the sports league, and has become in describing very prestigious schools. in this case, very good public universities.</p>
<p>All I have to say is that the Public Ivies are on the same level academically as the Ivy League, but all of them could absolutely massacre any Ivy League school in sports. And since sports is why the Ivy League was formed in the first place, it goes without saying that the Public Ivies are better than the Ivy League. :-P</p>
<p>Just kidding. Is W&M considered part of that group? I know it's a fantastic school but I've never considered it in the same realm as Berkeley, UVa, or Michigan.</p>
<p>I would say W&M belongs to any list of top public schools, but only at the undergraduate level. And why not? Three presidents have graduated from it, it is the 2nd oldest university in the country (1690s), it has talented students and it has a good liberal arts curriculum.</p>
<p>William and Mary is not like most of the state schools "ranked ahead" of it. There are only 5600 undergrads at W&M, and it is very focused on undergrad education. There are few post grad schools, and heavy research is not done very much at W&M, unlike UVA/Mich/UT-A/Berkeley. Like Alexandre said, it focuses on liberal arts. It has no engineering program. Student:Faculty ratio is about 12:1. Again, not the feel of most state schools. Ranked 1st among public schools by USNWR in committment to undergrad teaching. W&M has the highest average SAT scores of any school in VA.</p>
<p>W&M was chartered in 1693, and is the 2nd oldest school in the country, and home to the oldest academic building in continual use. Educated 4 Presidents (George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Monroe and John Tyler). Phi Beta Kappa, the most prestigious college honor society, was founded at W&M. W&M was the first school to have an honor code.</p>
<p>"A tradition that lives on at this premier 'Public Ivy' is a commitment to old-fashioned academic excellence."
-Fiske Guide to Colleges</p>
<p>"William and Mary can make a good case for being the most selective public college in America. Its size . . . is ideal, the envy of a good many prestigious private colleges. Its setting and its own lush campus . . . provide the stuff calendars are made of. Its academic program . . . is no nonsense, followed by impressive placement in graduate schools and jobs."
-Richard Moll, author of The Public Ivys: A Guide to America's Best Public Undergraduate Colleges and Universities</p>
<p>even though i am not a big fan of ivy or whatever, i think CCers are almost anti-ivy.
i mean you guys know what someonelse's talking about and
it's, in fact, a generally accepted term. (and i bet someonelse knows that too)</p>
<p>i just read way too many thread/topics/writings on CC talking about how ivy is only a sport blahblahblah and how come ivy is so blahblahblahblha nothing-so-good-about-it stuffs.
i mean please get over -_-</p>
<p>(i dont even know why i'm spending my late nite hours, it's freaking 2:15 AM .., in CC .. but whatever)</p>