<p>I know this is really random, and begs the question what defines an Ivy League college, but what college would you choose to be under the Ivy League label? Explain why, based on your personal set of criteria.</p>
<p>By this thread, you mean you want to know what some top-tier non-ivy schools are?</p>
<p>Well the actual Ivy leagues are just the members of an athletic conference, they just happened to all be the most amazing schools. I would include all the current Ivy leagues, take out Cornell, and add MIT, Stanford, Cal Tech, and Duke. There are some other close ones, but I'd say that's about what I think would be the "new Ivy league."</p>
<p>i dont know. u tell me.</p>
<p>keep the original 8. MIT and Caltech can't even compete with the other 8 in athletics. This is, afterall, the entire point of the ivy league. Duh!!</p>
<p>when people post threads like this, i really wonder how smart the people on these boards actually are. </p>
<p>ivy league is an athletic conference. thats it. save a very few select sports at select schools (lacrosse at princeton for example) its a pretty horrible sports conference at that. yes, the 8 schools in the division are great schools. they arn't the 8 best. people need to stop referring to "ivy league" as meaning the best - because quite simply it isnt. besides - if u want to get really technical, theres no way an athletic conference, a ****ty one at that, would have schools on opposite coasts. </p>
<p>too many naive 16 year olds who don't know what they're talking about on this forum.</p>
<p>I'm pretty sure we can all assume jag86 was rejected by the Ivy Leages. HAHHAHA.</p>
<p>lol, i'm pretty sure i applied to one, got in, and didn't go.</p>
<p>i wouldn't take out cornell. why would you??? cornell's an amazing shcool.</p>
<p>academically?</p>
<p>duke, stanford, mit, chicago, northwestern and georgetown.</p>
<p>I actually agree with jags. Not sure about the rest, but I know Duke would be insulted if it was asked to join the Ivy League. We have better weather, better sports, less tradition, equal or better academics, and, quite frankly, more normal people.</p>
<p>Haha. I would take out Cornell, Penn, Brown and Dartmouth and add Stanford and MIT.</p>
<p>There are colleges that excel at specific departments that warrant recognition of the "Ivy" label. I can't think of them off of the top of my head right now. . .</p>
<p>Yeah, sorry I don't know why I started this thread, jags86 . ::embarrased:: Haha, at least people are having fun posting.</p>
<p>spirited, you obviously missed my entire point. the "ivy" label shouldn't mean anything, and i don't know how, where, or why it got this ridiculous conotation to it.</p>
<p>I place the word Ivy in quotation marks for a reason. What I intended is that there are schools, many that some might not have heard of or not as widely known as the Ivy schools, that have excellent departments individually and sometimes holistically and yes jags, your point about schools being "better" than some of the Ivy schools is true. I forgot to acknowledge that as well. </p>
<p>I understood what you typed jags and I failed to define Ivy. I apologize for the confusion.</p>
<p>jags86, you don't have to insult the OP.</p>
<p>Heh- I'm gonna make my own elite league- the Raspberry league. Includes elite and prestigious institutions such as the south Pasadena Community College and Bob Jones University.</p>
<p>Doesn't Pasadena have a good relationship with the UCs in regards to transfers?</p>
<p>masamune try spelling league correctly. HAHAHAHA</p>