Separating the Ivies

College Search & Selection
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<p>I was wondering, what separates each ivy from the other ivy league schools?</p>

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<p>Distance.</p>

<p>Names.</p>

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<p><strong><em>sigh</em></strong></p>

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<p>They’re different schools. The Ivy League is an athletic conference. Some are urban, some aren’t. Some are bigger, some are smaller.</p>

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<p>Endowment size, mostly.</p>

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<p>What separates each Patriot League school from the others?
what separates each Big East school from the others?
What separates each NESCAC school from the others?
What separates each North Coast Athletic conference school from the others?
Waht separates each PAC Ten school from the others?</p>

<p>A better question might be what connects them.
A group of schools decided to play sports against each other in a conference. They obviously had reasons for wanting to do this: eg they are reasonably proximate, want fair competition so they want to play schools of perhaps grossly similar size (with exceptions, and a wide range)that value athletics similarly, agree on terms for granting athletic scholarships (none, in Ivy League) and recruiting rules. </p>

<p>The Ivy league colleges were/are colleges of high academic reputation. Schools that affirmatively wanted no athletic scholarships may tend to be of that ilk, though others of their academic peer schools differ, and they have no monopoly on academic reputation. </p>

<p>Other than that, they are as different from each other as schools in many other athletics conferences are from each other. Maybe moreso, than some.</p>

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<p>One addtional connection is that they are all very old and thus loom larger in American history and culture than most newer schools do. All but one were founded in colonial times. They can and do sometimes still proudly display their founding charters granted by various kings of England.</p>

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<p>This could just be an extremely poorly-worded question asking what the defining characteristics of each Ivy are. In which case…</p>

<p>Brown: no curriculum requirements, hippies
Columbia: is in NYC, strong core curriculum
Cornell: is big red, rural, has a hotel school
Dartmouth: a rural liberal arts college that somehow made it onto the Ivy list
Harvard: is Harvard, is Harvard
Penn: has Wharton and the most cross-registration between its 12 schools
Princeton: has eating clubs, is Princeton
Yale: has residential colleges, is Yale</p>

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<p>“the most cross-registration between its 12 schools”</p>

<p>???</p>

<p>FWIW, cross-registration is commonplace at Columbia and Cornell too. If I wanted to count the total # of cross-registered courses being undertaken right now at each university (& its affiliates), to support such assertion, I’ve no idea where I would find those numbers. </p>

<p>And at the other schools, without separate undergraduate colleges, undergraduate college cross-registration is consequently 100%. </p>

<p>To me, a 'defining characteristic" should perhaps be left for something that is not also ubiquitous at some of the others, regardless if there is some nuance as to the exact #?</p>

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<p>Go to Penn and you’ll understand, noob.</p>

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<p>I would then also have to go to Columbia and Cornell…a step you skipped, perhaps.</p>

<p>Ignoring, once again, the lack of separate colleges altogether, therefore complete cross-registration, at some of the other shools.</p>

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<p>A school like Princeton or Brown doesn’t separate from, say, its law or business school because it simply doesn’t have one.</p>

<p>Then there are schools like Columbia, which has a law school, but undergrads can’t take classes in it.</p>

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<p>I would say that in terms of general reputation and outside impressions, “has Wharton” is essentially it for Penn. “Is in Philly,” maybe. Aside from that, ilovebagels pretty much nails it.</p>

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<p>If you’re such a blessed person as to get to choose from all the Ivies, do yourself a favor and visit all of them. That’s a better call than asking a message board. If you can only get into one or two, what does the question really matter?</p>