What schools do you consider as "Western Ivies"

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<p>I hear this phrase a lot from classmates. Kids who go to schools like "University of Portland" or "University of San Diego" or "University of Puget Sound" and other schools claims they attend a Western Ivy League school.</p>

<p>I'm just curious, what schools are known as western Ivies?</p>

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<p>oh, and somebody said Pomona is the western harvard</p>

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<p>the top schools in the west would include stanford, caltech, claremont schools (which includes pomona, havey mudd, and claremont mckenna), as well as uc berkley... those come to mind, but i'm no expert on western schools.</p>

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<p>if University of Portland University of San Diego or University of Puget Sound can be western ives...there are so many schools that can be ivies..</p>

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<p>National universities would probably include:</p>

<p>Stanford
Berkeley
UCLA
USC</p>

<p>LACs would probably include:</p>

<p>Claremont consortium minus Pitzer (so, Pomona, Claremont McKenna, Harvey Mudd, Scripps)
Reed
Whitman
Colorado College</p>

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<p>Western Ivies and other premier institutions, in my mind, include</p>

<p>Stanford, Berkeley, Claremont Consortium, Reed, Whitman, Colorado College, and Lewis and Clark.</p>

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<p>Stanford. That's really it in my mind. Not that I don't love Cal, Pomona, UCLA, USC, CMC, and the like, but if you're really comparing West Coast schools to the Ivies (especially Harvard, Yale, Princeton), the only one equatable is Stanford.</p>

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<p>Stanford. Berkeley. Caltech. </p>

<p>Harvard. Yale. Princeton. </p>

<p>(at least reputation wise, they're equivalent. Although caltech is sciences only)</p>

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<p>^ What he said.</p>

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<p>Do not forget Colorado College.....</p>

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<p>Stanford and CalTech = HYP and MIT</p>

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<p>Stanford, Caltech, Pomona, Harvey-Mudd, McKenna</p>

<p>on a lesser note</p>

<p>Scripps, UCLA, UC Berkeley, Reed</p>

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<p>sorry if i'm wrong, but isn't Pomona a liberal arts college? how can you compare that to Harvard?</p>

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<p>the whole consortium is liberal arts. i think people are considering the quality of academics and not research and size. who knows. it seems that lots of people have always considered pomona as a western ivy</p>

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<p>No one mentioned University of San Francisco, but I guess it doesn't count since it doesn't have an undergrad.</p>

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<p>You can not mention Scripps, Reed, Whitman or Lewis and Clark without Colorado College (which is ranked higher than all of them)</p>

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<p>sorry if I'm wrong but, isn't Reed ranked like 54 on the US News LAC list?</p>

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<p>yeah but everyone knows about that story. if you know about how anti-us news reed college is, you can understand why. i read some thread a while back and the general consensus seemed to be that reed should be top 20, if not top 15</p>

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<p>@abnk </p>

<p>true, i forgot to mention colorado. count them in.</p>

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<p>USF is not a top university. UCSF is though however.</p>