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Originally posted by aephi alum
I wouldn't be surprised to learn that the MIT AKA chapter has members who attend Harvard or Wellesley. But that chapter is recognized by MIT as a student organization, which by definition means that at least half the members are MIT students.
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Okay, and your point...? I never said it wasn't, since the focus was Ivy League chapters, I mentioned that chapter.
Moving on...
When we get into considering a school an "Almost-Ivy," it gets us into a lot of trouble. From what these college counselors have told us all summer (I'm working with kids interested in attending primarily Ivy League schools), MIT/Stanford/Northwestern/ Chicago/Cal-Tech are almost always considered near-Ivies. The question isn't academic quality, it's what schools are overlapping application-wise with the Ivy League schools. Just because a school is selective or regionally prestigious doesn't make it an "Almost-Ivy." Let that distinction guide us in this thread.