<p>Never heard the term “Ivy Plus” before.</p>
<p>If you’d asked me a few years back to name the Ivy League schools, I would have said Harvard and Yale. If you’d told me there were more I probably would have guessed Wellesley or Amherst.</p>
<p>Grew up in NY suburbs, in a very competitive public HS, where many classmates did attend Ivies, but we thought of them as individual schools, not a group. Our best female students often attended all-girl schools like, Smith, Wellesley, and Bryn Mawr, and our top lacrosse players headed for Princeton and UVA. My own college search consisted of visiting 4 schools that my GC suggested, and choosing the one I liked best that had my major. Students and parents just didn’t agonize over the process the way so many of us (myself included) do now.</p>