2025 Forbes New Ivies List

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Anonymous wrote:Tufts is a very fine school. Sorry it’s not your cup of tea.

It’s not that fine. It’s orchestrated

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Well fortunately for Tufts it seems many potential employers feel differently. Wishing your child all the best in their college journey.

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I'm sure West Point is thrilled to be deemed a "New Ivy." /s

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Anonymous wrote:Give me a break! Purdue has a 50% acceptance rate, and more importantly it is not in the same sports league.

True. Purdue is Big 10, which is far better than the Ivy League. Also better than the Ivy League is Purdue Engineering, which has a single digit acceptance rate.

Better at sports and in-state affordability -- not necessarily better overall.

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Anonymous wrote:I have a son at Purdue (Engineering) and wow! It is HARD. The kids that are able to graduate and survive the STEM programs there are very smart, tough as nails, resilient and self-motivated. Nothing is handed to them and if anything there is grade deflation (son had one grade curved down 9 points!!!! because literally only 8% of the class was awarded an A). Many students who started in the program have either transferred out, changed majors or outright failed after being on academic probation. I love the no non-sense attitude of the school - reinforces the "you get what you get and you don't fuss a bit" I used to tell him as a preschooler. They get out of the program what they put into it.

sounds like fun atmosphere.

You sound like a fun person.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m happy to see Pitt starting to get more recognition. I don’t have a kid there but know so many really bright kids there now.

Pitt is killing it at attracting super bright high stats kids. I know so many high SAT / high GPA kids who are starting to choose Pitt. They do a great job at recruiting.

+1. Pitt is the surprise on the list, but a pleasant one. Both my kids used it as a safety. Admitted in September and done. Neither attended, but we were impressed with the campus and tour. One of my kids was TJ. Don’t know about now, but 2018-2020 sent more kids to Pitt than VT.

Counter-point: in our magnet HS, 54 acceptances to Pitt last year and not one student chose to enroll.

Yeah, but part of that is that Pitt flips the whole admissions game around. They do rolling admissions, and so every top kid uses Pitt as a "safety." This means that tons of super bright kids are applying to Pitt (and are not applying to other "safeties"), and Pitt accepts them all knowing not a lot will come. They're like the opposite of yield protecting.

But what is the consequence of that? First, a whole bunch of kids who might not have considered Pitt consider Pitt.
Second, a whole bunch of kids visit Pitt who might not have visited Pitt. And some of them actually fall in love with Pitt.
Third, some of those super high stats kids DO end up choosing Pitt. I know kids who got into top schools (Michigan, Purdue engineering, Tufts) etc who are choosing Pitt because they liked it better. I honestly know a bunch of high stats kids going to Pitt.

And then Pitt's reputation is going up and up and up. Look at how people talk about Pitt on this board. Now it got designation of Public Ivy.

I think Pitt is playing this game SMART. They're doing something different than other schools, and not only that, their product is good - people who go to Pitt LOVE Pitt. So they're not like gaming the system. They're taking a radically different approach and folks are seeing what Pitt has to offer and choosing it.

I'd be surprised if Pitt doesn't go up in rankings in coming years.

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Pitt on Forbes New Ivies List.
Pitt ranks 176 on Forbes best colleges.

Much disparity.

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Anonymous wrote:https://www.forbes.com/sites/emmawhitford/2025/03/26/the-new-ivies-2025-20-great-colleges-employers-love/

An update of the (somewhat controversial) list from last year. Mostly the same as last year, but with a few colleges swapped out

New to this year's list:
WashU St. Louis
Tufts
Purdue
West Point
UPitt
William & Mary

Half are public

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Anonymous wrote:https://www.forbes.com/sites/emmawhitford/2025/03/26/the-new-ivies-2025-20-great-colleges-employers-love/

An update of the (somewhat controversial) list from last year. Mostly the same as last year, but with a few colleges swapped out

New to this year's list:
WashU St. Louis
Tufts
Purdue
West Point
UPitt
William & Mary

I went to one of those, have a kid at an Ivy. Not a chance. I so wish we could permanently get rid of public ivy, new ivy, ivy plus, make it stop! These are all great schools, it’s just so desperate having to add that tag on and it doesn’t make any sense.

I went to one of these because I thought the top students at a good, obscure non-Ivy would be a little smarter and a lot less aggressive than the typical students at an Ivy, and I think that belief was correct.