Was CMU invited to join the ivy league?

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<p>these are posts made by doni5366 over in the thread "Overview of our Visit to Carnegie Mellon" from about a year ago:</p>

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@doni5366

I'm a student at CMU in my sophomore year, and it may interest any prospectives or people who are generally just curious to know, that CMU was actually invited to join the IVY league this year, and was invited in the past, but rejected the offer on the grounds that they did not want to change their innovative research techniques to fit the IVY league standards, which is similar to Georgetown University's decision not to join the IVY for self-preservation reasons. (Georgetown did not want to give up their Jesuit association)

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@doni5366

I spoke to the Dean Provost of HSS at the Diversity Discussion dinner this week, and he relayed the information to me. As far as I know, it has not been publicized. He also told me that Carnegie Mellon has been invited previous years and has declined. The University is very proud of remaining an institution separate of the Ivy League Schools. I'm sure if you visited and spoke to one of the Deans or Faculty members they could tell you, but I was given the impression that the University does not necessarily want this information published for whatever reason. (Funding, who knows?) But the Deans are pretty friendly and I'm sure they would tell you if asked.

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<p>more can be found by following the link below:
<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=6054&page=3&pp=15&highlight=join+ivy+league%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=6054&page=3&pp=15&highlight=join+ivy+league&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>I don't know if I believe any of it, but it appears that there have been rumors in the past...</p>