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Frankly, I don't care which schools are in the Ivy League. There are many really good schools that are not Ivies.
University of Chicago
Columbia University
MIT
Standford University
Duke University
California Institute of Technology
Dartmouth College
Johns Hopkins University
Northwestern University
Cornell University
Rice University
all make my list of top schools
We just visited Rice this morning and the program is absolutely fantastic especially the engineering school. Expensive though.
Northwestern is in Evanston, IL which is my old home and it has many wonderful programs.
I'm not clear it was intended to be a general list of schools you consider really good or if it was meant to be a list of non-Ivy schools that were really good. But for the record, 3 of the schools on your list are members of the Ivy League - Columbia, Dartmouth and Cornell.
And for the record, no one has claimed that Ivy League schools are the only good ones. Just that it's a set of 8 specific schools, and not a generic terms for good schools in general.
I'm not clear it was intended to be a general list of schools you consider really good or if it was meant to be a list of non-Ivy schools that were really good. But for the record, 3 of the schools on your list are members of the Ivy League - Columbia, Dartmouth and Cornell.
And for the record, no one has claimed that Ivy League schools are the only good ones. Just that it's a set of 8 specific schools, and not a generic terms for good schools in general.
+1. That post makes no sense.
We could start a thread entitled "Which colleges/universities should be considered Top Tier?" or something similar. That could be an interesting list, with probably 30 or so schools that most agree on and another 30 that are debated ad nauseum.
But in this case, the reply actually shows the dismay which prompted this thread -- which is that too many people seem to have no idea what someone is talking about when the term "Ivy League" is mentioned. It doesn't matter whether one cares about it. I know plenty of stuff that I don't "care" about.
No one has claimed that Stanford or Northwestern or Georgetown or any others are bad schools just because they are not in the Ivy League. But the simple fact is that they don't happen to be in the Ivy League. Whatever inferences people take from that are their own.
I'm not clear it was intended to be a general list of schools you consider really good or if it was meant to be a list of non-Ivy schools that were really good. But for the record, 3 of the schools on your list are members of the Ivy League - Columbia, Dartmouth and Cornell.
And for the record, no one has claimed that Ivy League schools are the only good ones. Just that it's a set of 8 specific schools, and not a generic terms for good schools in general.
True. But there are only 8 Ivy League schools and there are many non-Ivies that are just as good.
I'm not clear it was intended to be a general list of schools you consider really good or if it was meant to be a list of non-Ivy schools that were really good. But for the record, 3 of the schools on your list are members of the Ivy League - Columbia, Dartmouth and Cornell.
And for the record, no one has claimed that Ivy League schools are the only good ones. Just that it's a set of 8 specific schools, and not a generic terms for good schools in general.
And of course everyone knows the "Ivy League" designation came about because of football, not academics, right? These schools got together and decided not to offer football scholarships.
But someone's posted that already in this very erudite thread, I'm sure.
^ but the question remains why is it important to memorize all of the members of a set of something random vs. memorizing the names and positions of the starting 5 for the 1985 boston celtics ?
Bird SF
McHale PF
Parish C
DJ PG
Ainge SG
I personally think the above is vital information (no reference material used BTW)
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