What is a "lower" Ivy?

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<p>I believe upper and lower refers where they are geographically located on the map. This is how their rankings work:</p>

<p>Dartmouth
Cornell
Harvard
Brown</p>

<p>Yale
Columbia
Princeton
Penn</p>

<p>We may have a different ranking if we consider southern most to be the top ranking.</p>

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<p>I’m inclined to agree with that. I tire of the threads where people are saying “OMG I only got into Cornell and Penn!!! Is my life completely over???” or better yet…“I only got accepted to UC Berkeley, MIT, UMich, UIUC and Stanford!!! The Ivy’s all shot me down!!! Is my life over???”</p>

<p>Also, some of you guys are classifying schools that aren’t even Ivy League schools as being some of the “top Ivy’s.” A school does not have to be called an “Ivy League” school in order to be a good school.</p>

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<p>Couldn’t have said it any better myself. This type of thing would only be on CC. It’s pathetic.</p>

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<p>Correct. I have only heard it on this board and nowhere else.</p>

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<p>Brown and Cornell.</p>

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<p>It makes sense to distinguish among the Ivies since [Brown</a> and Cornell Are Second Tier](<a href=“http://chronicle.com/blogs/percolator/brown-and-cornell-are-second-tier/27565]Brown”>Percolator: Brown and Cornell Are Second Tier)</p>

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<p>@beyphy</p>

<p>Really? That article is pretty much saying if you didn’t go to Harvard, Princeton, or Yale; you don’t have a chance. That article is total bs.</p>

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<p>Stanford’s not an Ivy. It’s on the opposite side of the country from the Ivies.</p>

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<p>Stanford is a top tier Ivy what are you talking about?</p>

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<p>@originalguy</p>

<p>Stanford is not an Ivy League school. It’s an AMAZING school, but it is separate from the Ivy League.</p>

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<p><a href=“https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivy_League[/url]”>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivy_League&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>The Ivy League is an athletic league!!</p>

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<p>Originalguy – neither Stanford nor Duke are in the Ivy league. The Ivy League is an athletic conference in which H,P,Y, Brown, Dartmouth, Columbia, Cornell, Penn compete. It is not, actually, an academic ranking or other indicator of selectivity.</p>

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<p>Having attended and taught at one of the Ivies that everyone on CC would consider an “upper Ivy,” I can ASSURE you that this is ALL College Confidential nonsense!!! No one at my alma mater – or anyone I’ve EVER MET who has had the good fortune to attend any one of these eight fine schools – “tiers” them into “upper,” “middle” and “lower” Ivies. Many things on CC make me angry – because of misinformation and sheer ignorance. NOTHING makes me angrier than this COMPLETELY FALSE notion propogated on CC – and nowhere else – that there are upper, lower, and even mid-Ivies. Anyone who buys into this nonsense is naive. And those who spread it are snake-oil salesmen who, more than likely, never attended any one of these schools. If they did attend one of them, may I say, they probably spent more time in the local bars than in the collge classrooms.</p>

<p>Sheer, ignorant, rubbish. And the persons posting what they must think are correct answers – offering their versions of the tiers – could not appear more foolish.</p>

<p>Any kid who gets into ANY ONE OF THESE SCHOOLS should be very proud of his or her achievement. Parsing the prestige is a game for folks who aren’t terribly sophisticated about the American higher education system. Ignore this. All eight schools are unique, and fantastic.</p>

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<p>Hooray for swingtime!</p>

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<p>Swingtime</p>

<p>Glad you stand out</p>

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<p>Interesting. It’s appalling that people actually class the Ivy League schools based on prestige, I would definitely agree that they’re all amazing schools, and that it’s a great accomplishment to get into any of them.</p>