<p>^^The term I would use for Columbia is “old school.”</p>
<p>In what way is Columbia “old school”?</p>
<p>^^Primarily in their devotion to their Core curriculum - a whole bunch of reading and study of the works of dead white guys. Which I personally think has a lot of value but is not exactly viewed as the most progressive educational theory. Also in their admissions process they still stick with ED, where many other schools have moved to SCEA, EA, or dropping early admissions altogether.</p>
<p>A joke about the ivy league…slighly biased :):
The eight institutions of the Ivy League found themselves all marooned on a desert island… in personified form, strangely enough. And so they went about their business.</p>
<p>Harvard appointed himself the president for life and set out to get everyone else to bow to him. Columbia started a newspaper for the residents of the island. Yale set up a stage and put on a show every night. Dartmouth distilled the juice from the island fruits and set up a bar. Princeton set up an exclusive eating club and invited the others to apply for membership, even though they had no idea how to cook food. Ever shrewd, Penn tried to get the others to trade between themselves and skim off a commission for himself. And humble Cornell went about its own business, planting a garden to grow food and building a water-tight boat to get off the island as soon as possible.</p>
<p>Cornell’s garden yielded bountiful food and soon the Big Red Boat was ready to set sail with ample provisions. As they all climbed onto the boat, Dartmouth looked around the island one last time and belched, saying, “Funny how we haven’t missed Brown at all.”</p>
<p>“Columbia: The Core is the center of all knowledge, NYC is the center of the Universe, and we are the center of NYC.”</p>
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<p>Venkat wins the award for accuracy</p>
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wins the award for making me giggle like a schoolgirl.</p>
<p>This is a cool thread :D</p>
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Have you seen their football team? Can’t be the toughest in a football conference if you suck at the sport :)</p>
<p>If only we could get away from these silly academic and prestige rivalries and back to the good ole football, basketball, and hockey rivalries that made the Ivy League what it is.</p>
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<p>Stop. This is like the third time we’ve agreed this week. Not cool dude, people are going to start to think we like each other ;).</p>
<p>this is a delightfully funny thread…though not Ivies, how about taking a stab at personalities for any in this list?</p>
<p>Amherst
Caltech
Chicago
Duke
Johns Hopkins
MIT
Northwestern
Stanford
Swarthmore
Wash U
Williams</p>
<p>^Amherst, Williams, and Swat "We’re as good as Ivies but smaller
MIT, Caltech, and Stanford "We know we’re better than the Ivies
UChicago “We would have rejected Ivies to come here had we gotten into any”
Duke, NU, WashU “We’re as good as Ivies. No really. Look at the rankings. Really, belive us”
Hopkins “We’re as good as the Ivies… for future doctors anyway”</p>
<p>Here’s a great list of school lightbulb jokes:</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.airynothing.com/humor/Lightbul.txt[/url]”>http://www.airynothing.com/humor/Lightbul.txt</a></p>
<p>Amherst - “We’re as good as Brown, Dartmouth. We’re definitely better than Cornell. Right?”
Williams - “Right!”
Swarthmore - “Right.”
MIT - “We’re better than Caltech”
Caltech - “All Caltech grads take quantum physics. Enough said.”
Stanford - “We are Silicon Valley.”
Chicago - “We quote Tolstoy, and Faulkner while watching Transformers. That makes us more intellectual than Cornell.”
Duke - “Look at our BME department”
JHU - “No, look at OUR BME department”
WashU - “We need to target the preschoolers. We believe children are our future. Brainwash them now and let them apply in drove. Show them all the beauty St. Louis has.”
Cornell - “What beauty? There aren’t any tree left in St. Louis”</p>
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<p>Oh lol I love this one!</p>
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<p>AHAHAH I am a Duke student, and still made me laugh. :P</p>
<p>Duke - “We’re better than North Carolina at basketball.”
UNC- “No you’re not.”
Duke- “Coach K. Cameron Crazies. Grant Hill. JJ Redick. Shane Battier. Elton Brand. Johnny Dawkins. 1991, 1992, 2001.”
UNC- “Dean Dome. Dean Smith. Roy Williams. Tyler Hansbrough. Franklin Street. Sam Perkins. James Worthy. Vince Carter. Jerry Stackhouse. Michael Jordan. 1957, 1982, 1993, 2005, 2009. Oh, and we’ve beaten you in 6 of the last 7 meetings.”</p>
<p>Princeton: “I’m too sexy for my shirt, too sexy for my shirt, so sexy…”
Brown: “We be burnin’, not concernin’, what nobody wanna say…”
Cornell: “Hotel. Motel. Holiday Inn!”
Dartmouth: “I’ll take you for a ride on my big green tractor…”</p>
<p>Can’t think of songs for Columbia, Yale, Harvard, and Penn.</p>
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<p><em>Roll</em> That is so 1990s. Almost everyone I know here either rejected an Ivy to come here or didn’t apply to any Ivies at all.</p>
<p>[AIM</a> conversation between Ivies](<a href=“Webs.com has been shut down: Find out more”>Webs.com has been shut down: Find out more)</p>
<p>(courtesy of the old CC)</p>
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Haha, I love this.</p>