Greek Life at "New Ivies" (as Newsweek calls them)

[Munchkin03]

Originally Posted by alum

Technically the Ivy League is just an athletic conference of certain midsize private schools.

As the alumna of two Ivy League schools (not to mention the semester abroad sponsored by a third), and as someone who was an athlete at the Division I level in undergrad, I am quite familiar with the details of the Ivy Group Agreement. No athletic scholarships here!

[Rudey]

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/col...udoc_brief.php

First of all, your list is wrong. Here is the real list.

Second of all, the rankings are essentially set in intangible stone for the top 10 schools so these rankings are meaningless. Alums of these schools recruit grads from their schools and donate to make sure they schools can keep growing their ridiculously large endowments.

-Rudey

[hellocutie]

Thanks Rudey for the accurate list.

[KSigkid]

Originally Posted by Rudey

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/col...udoc_brief.php

First of all, your list is wrong. Here is the real list.

Second of all, the rankings are essentially set in intangible stone for the top 10 schools so these rankings are meaningless. Alums of these schools recruit grads from their schools and donate to make sure they schools can keep growing their ridiculously large endowments.

-Rudey

And third of all, not all schools completely participate in the rankings. My alma mater, for example, only sends in limited information. I imagine it's the same thing with the law school rankings and grad school; it doesn't take regional factors and other issues into account. One example I constantly bring up is Suffolk Law, which is in the 70s for rankings, but has a really good reputation with Boston law firms and organizations. A good number of the managing partners, hiring partners and government lawyers attended Suffolk.

If you go to someplace like Williams, U of Chicago, etc., you don't need to know that your in whatever # place on US News. The reputation of the school speaks for itself.

I agree on the Ivies comment as well. There are the Ivies, and there are some good schools that aren't Ivies. I don't understand the whole "Almost Ivies," "Public Ivies," etc. A good school is a good school, and a strong alum base will help, Ivy or not.