<p>Here's the list of its Top 10 Ivy League Alternatives:</p>
<p>Amherst College
Duke University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Pomona College
Stanford University
Swarthmore College
University of Chicago
Wellesley College
Wesleyan University
Williams College</p>
<p>Do you agree?
Top</a> 10 Ivy League alternatives</p>
<p>Wrong premise.</p>
<p>Many attend these colleges despite getting into an Ivy.</p>
<p>I am not as well versed with LAC admits and their preferences but I personally know students (90% or more of those I know) who have turned down Ivies to Attend Stanford. I know others who have done the same for MIT, Duke, and U of C.</p>
<p>^^Agreed. One doesn’t have to be an Ivy League reject in order to find any one of the ten colleges listed extremely attractive.</p>
<p>Virtually every one of those schools, except perhaps Wellesley and Wesleyan, is just as if not more difficult to get into than some schools in the Ivy League. And they aren’t exactly unknown.</p>
<p>^^Agree. Most of these schools aren’t alternatives to the Ivy League so much as they are functional extensions of it.</p>
<p>What was silly was the subheadline - “Didn’t get into an Ivy? Check out these equals”. Considering it’s past the application deadline for most or all of these schools, and you don’t know if you’ve gotten into every Ivy yet, nor can you suddenly apply at these schools if you didn’t get in, the “article” appears to be nothing more than a hidden advertisement for the book.</p>
<p>Shoddy, shoddy journalism - Although the Fiske Guides are perfectly fine.</p>
<p>^^Admittedly, a reader would have to have been working under the gun. I believe the dateline read, January 6, 2014 which would have left only schools with January 15th deadlines (either RD or, EDII) as viable options. For example, I think both Amherst and Williams extended their application periods due to problems with the Common App website</p>
<p>Sheesh, take a look at the “e-book” itself: it consists of info about just those 10 schools, for the low, low price of $4.39. Someone is laughing all the way to the bank.</p>
<p>From the introduction:</p>
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<p>What a silly list. I was expecting to see a list of honors programs at top public universities.</p>
<p>And where’s Caltech?</p>
<p>Caltech doesn’t really substitute for the liberal arts type education that most seek at the Ivies. Really, really good school, but it addresses a different need and type of student. Yes, MIT is on the list, but it has a lot more of the liberal arts type majors than Caltech does. Besides, if you can’t make it into an Ivy, you really aren’t going to make it into Caltech.</p>
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Or MIT. Or Amherst. That’s what’s dopey about this list. I guess it might have some value for the Ivy-obsessed kid who needs a bigger list of reaches for RD.</p>
<p>Can’t afford that Mercedes? Have you considered an Audi or BMW instead? LOL, what a silly article.</p>
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<p>“We” do? What is this, the 1950’s? That ship sailed a long time ago. The Ivies haven’t been the “pinnacle of excellence and everything else pales in comparison” in ages.</p>
<p>You’ve been around CC long enough that you know that this mindset is certainly true in belief among many kids and parents, even if it’s not true in fact.</p>
<p>^^Agreed. From what I’ve observed, including this thread, the quickest way to attract thread visits here, is to include the word"ivy" in the subject line.</p>
<p>Also, I think if the worst thing you can say about the colleges chosen for the list is that they are redundant, Ted Fisk must be very pleased.</p>
<p>I think that list has already been done in any case: [The</a> Hidden Ivies, 2nd Edition: 50 Top Colleges - from Amherst to Williams - That Rival the Ivy League: Howard Greene, Matthew W. Greene: 9780061726729: Amazon.com: Books](<a href=“http://www.amazon.com/The-Hidden-Ivies-2nd-Edition/dp/0061726729]The”>http://www.amazon.com/The-Hidden-Ivies-2nd-Edition/dp/0061726729)</p>
<p>Why don’t they just list the “public ivies,” UVA, UNC, William and Mary, Berkeley, Texas, Michigan, Vermont, Miami U? Slightly different education. Yet in the cases of Berkeley, W&M, UVA, UNC, and Mich, they are certainly strong alternatives.</p>
<p>That list has also been done, in another book by the same authors I linked above!</p>
<p>Is the definition based on how difficult it is to get admitted? OR, is it based on a certain type of education? Nowadays, people just seem to want to be competetive for the sake of being competetive. What about actually LEARNING for the sake of the learning…?? There are many more schools than the IVY’s and the USA list (one is my alma mater) that are JUST AS GOOD, if not BETTER in the education and Learning they provide.</p>