<p>We have the acronym HYPSM which is a made up one standing for Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford and MIT. Only the first three participate (or rather participated in the ivy league), Stanford is a part of PAC-10. HYPSM indicates colleges of a certain standing irrespective of what their sports affiliation is/was.</p>
<p>Hence, I think your question is “Which are the schools that can be considered to be IVY league quality or reputation (what ever that means) but are not officially called ivy league schools?” Asking it that way will get you a different answer.</p>
<p>UCLA is a very good school, but I don’t think they would fall into an ivy league like bracket, if exclusiveness is the criteria.</p>