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<p>I’m with you in not understanding why this happens, the matter of parents referring to colleges that aren’t formally in the Ivy League </p>
<p>[Ivy</a> League - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivy_League]Ivy”>Ivy League - Wikipedia) </p>
<p>when claiming, “My child attends an Ivy.” But that does happen on College Confidential threads. It’s definite enough what is an Ivy League college (there are exactly eight of those) and what is not. It’s more ambiguous what is an “Ivy plus” college, </p>
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<p>and that phrase “Ivy plus” exists to denote a broader, less exactly defined group of colleges each of which might be a called “peer” college to one or another of the eight Ivy League colleges. I don’t get why people who aren’t referring to ivies call them ivies, but it happens here.</p>