<p>A: I dont really care whether its Ivies or Ivy's, so dont even bring it up.
B: I am just wondering.....even though I applied to Brown. lol</p>
<p>How many people are NOT applying to the Ivy Leagues on CC? It just seems like 90% of everyone here IS applying to those universities.....</p>
<p>Why would everyone apply to the Ivies?</p>
<p>Because they want to?? I am just wondering how many people DIDN'T apply to the ivies because it seems like soooo many people did or are going to...</p>
<p>I won't be next year. The only ones I would go to over the colleges on my list (Priceton, Harvard) I have no chance of getting in to, so there is no point in me applying to them. The Ivies, outside of HYP, are for the most part just like most other Top 25-ish universities in terms of quality (except for a few specific fields, of course).</p>
<p>hehe down with the ivies.</p>
<p>No ivies for me because they don't offer anything I like, and if they did, they probably wouldn't be good at it either.</p>
<p>I didn't apply, although i do have somewhat decent/average scores for most of the ivies. They're all on the eastcoast, and that's just a little too far away from home for me.</p>
<p>No ivies for me. I was going to apply to Brown, Columbia, Yale, and Harvard... but then I realized that if I got into all of the schools I was planning on applying to, including the ivies, I'd go to Reed. So I applied ED II to Reed and ditched the ivies like the overrated grade-inflated prestige-whore havens they are.</p>
<p>I'm not applying to any Ivies because none of them (well, with the exception of Cornell) has an exceptionally strong engineering program. I'd be safer at places like Georgia Tech, MIT, Rose-Hulman, etc.</p>
<p>I'm not applying to any Ivies. The first and biggest reason is that I don't even come close to having the right stats. But if I did, I still wouldn't apply to those particular schools because I don't want to live in New England. </p>
<p>In fact, I'm not sure I would want to go to any school that selective because I don't like a competitive environment. I haven't visited any schools, so that may not be the way things are, but it's something I want to avoid.</p>
<p>I'm not. I want to go to a good school, but I don't think that the Ivies are for me. I'm from the South so I want to stay in the Southeast. Plus I don't think I would like the cut-throat competitive environment of the Ivies. My two top choices are Vanderbilt and the University of Georgia.</p>
<p>I'm not. First of all I'm a liberal arts college guy. Secondly, I don't have the stats.</p>
<p>I didn't. These are the schools i applied to btw</p>
<p>Stanford
MIT
Johns Hopkins
Berkeley
UT Austin
UT Dallas</p>
<p>I didn't apply because I couldn't get in and since I am on the west coast it is too far although I did apply to some midwest schools : Northwestern, Uchicago, and Notre Dame all of which are reaches as it is, I couldn't get into the ivies with a mere 1400 SAT! Either way I'll probably end up somewhere near home. I don't feel like going to school with a bunch of pretentious elitist snobs anyway. I'm not a prestige whore :)</p>
<p>The only one my D considered was Brown but then she decided too cold.</p>
<p>I applied to just one... Brown.</p>
<p>i admit... i applied to an ivy. but otherwise i think that they are overrated, overspoken of. they aren't the standard of learning. in fact, people who go to harvard can be equally as good as someone from a state school. it's all a sterotype. in the end, it's what YOU, the student, make of your education. in 9th grade, i used to think the ivies and the like were everything. but i learned that they're not. education should be about the individual, not the school. society may use the ivies as a standard but fight it, fight it, please. i'm not putting them down. i'm just trying to triumph the individual and the contributions you can make without going to an ivy.</p>
<p>ditto on smile05-</p>
<p>Most of the CCers here did not go to the private "Ivy" boarding schools (Exester, Andover, etc) , right?
How come now we have the ability to apply to most if not all the colleges in this nation?</p>
<p>Same thing goes for the colleges.
You don't need to go to "Ivies" to go to excellent graduate programs or having a successful life. Especially considering when some "Ivies" undergrad department is....</p>
<p>No Ivies for me... I believe that the Ivies are all name no game... They care more about their grads then their undergrads</p>
<p>Not Dartmouth!</p>