<p>There's a million words I can say why I want to attend one....</p>
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<li>Good campuses</li>
<li>Good research institution</li>
<li>Better network and
etc.....</li>
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<p>What's your main reason?</p>
<p>Because I like to spend $200,000 on college.</p>
<p>Honestly one of my main reasons is that I want to be in an intellectually stimulating environment where students are all motivated, accomplished people engaged in a learning community.</p>
<p>However, I am beginning to think this is some made-up utopia that doesn’t exist because it seems to me that many of these schools are all bureaucratic corporations wanting to compete in today’s world (which of course makes sense), but not truly for the pure joy of learning. Also it seems that the students are often there for prestige and wanting to earn money in the future rather than the true motivation that I state above.</p>
<p>Someone correct me if I’m wrong, which I sure hope I am</p>
<p>I think there are more and more schools that are becoming closely comparable to Ivy League schools, really. I don’t ~expect~ to get into an Ivy League school (though I’ll try; it’s such a crapshoot these days), but I’d like to get into one especially since the financial aid is really good. I come from a lower economic background than a lot of people going to those schools (single mother, no retirement fund, meh job, and absolutely no way to pay for college except through scholarships and loans). Plus there are a lot of resources available. I agree with elnamo about how it’d be nice to be somewhere intellectually stimulating… I think it’d be impossible for every single person attending the school to be highly motivated just for the sake of learning, though.</p>
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<p>If you want to go to college just for the sake of learning, you wouldn’t need to go to college since you could learn just as much by reading the relevant textbooks on your own time, and not have to pay up to $200,000 in tuition as well.</p>
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You’re right.
This is a utopia as well:
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<p>There is not a single university like the one you described above. </p>
<p>I never really want to go to an Ivy League. Cornell lasted on my list for about a week. Most of them didnt offer what I wanted, such as allowing freshmen to bring their cars.
If the university that honestly fits your needs just happens to be an Ivy League, more power to that person. My future university is nowhere mean the top of the rankings. Why did I choose it? It’s in the two hot spots of my field in my state. The other hot spot is where I love now. It fits the majority of my needs. It’s free. </p>
<p>There a lot of starry-eyed high school students enchanted by Ivy Leagues and there are a few who have legit reasons as to wanting to go to an Ivy League.</p>
<p>The school I like just happens to be an ivy league. I would like it the same if it weren’t.</p>
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<p>Financial aid is perfect at my school, supportive environment, excellent premed program and it’s very mission oriented. </p>
<p>I look toward college in general to be a safe haven. It won’t be perfect, but it’s good enough.</p>
<p>Just don’t get caught up in a name.</p>
<p>I do not…</p>
<p>I think that many people do not fit in the Ivy League mold (like my son) but others love a life of challenge (even if not always merited), prestige and (most important) the network of connections (for life) they provide. For each its own. Now I only see the prestige of the Ives growing as they try to become more and more selected. It is true that this prestige does not translate to a better education or at least to an exclusive education, but it could translate to more first job opportunities.</p>
<p>I think you guys are overestimating the job opportunities that eight schools will beget. And there are many schools with intellectually stimulating environments. If you want people to think you’re smart though, that’s cool and natural, but the schools are so different that grouping them together all the time’s just so weird to me.</p>
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<p>We just got back from visiting Kenyon and this was exactly my impression of the student body. I don’t think the above is a utopian dream. I think there are many smaller colleges out there striving to make this vision a reality. Can you find this sort of learning community at an Ivy? Sure. But you are perhaps even more likely to find it at a school were the prestige of the school is not one of the main selling points.</p>
<p>The dream/reach school I found perfect for me just happened to be of the Ivy League.</p>
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<p>My sentiments exactly. I didn’t want to go to any Ivy League school. I wanted to go to my dream school. So I am.</p>
<p>The only Ivy I really wanted to go to was Cornell. I would’ve considered Princeton, maybe, but I only took 3 years of foreign language anyway, so that wasn’t happening.
Cornell was just a great place. Idk, I loved the school. Nothing to do with Ivy status, although it doesn’t hurt.</p>
<p>I want to attend an Ivy so that I can further my career as a professional landscaper. As many people know, ivy is a difficult plant to take care of, so I am confident that by achieving my dream of attending an Ivy, I can secure myself a future.</p>
<p>I don’t (no remote chance of getting in), but if I did it would be so I could impress people by telling them where I got my degree.
Lots of colleges have the other things Ivy League colleges have.</p>
<p>My dream school is not an Ivy. The only one I’ve seriously considered
applying to is Brown. It has the right kind of environment (undergrad focus, medium sized, good in liberal arts +science).</p>
<p>I want to go to my dream school (which I will be attending :D) because I love the school, not because of its Ivy League status. I loved the school before I even knew the term"ivy league". It’s the right school for me - it offers what I want academically, academically motivated students (for the most part), a location I want, a climate that I want, and financial aid I had only ever dreamed of before I received my letter. Honestly, none of the other ivies were a good fit for me, though I did apply to two others for some reason. I had also applied to 2 other über selective schools that were right for me, some matches that were right for me, and safeties, many of which were not right for me. </p>
<p>In the end you gotta do what’s right for you. The Ivy League schools aren’t for everyone, they’re merely members of the same sports league and they differ a lot. Some bright students are better at other selective schools and some very bright students aren’t right for the super selective schools. Everyone is different.</p>