What is so special about UVA, W&M, VT!?!??

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Anonymous wrote:No debt is a sweet graduation gift.

When we had our kid, we immediately started looking at private schools. It was going to be a stretch but we thought it was the best thing we could do for our kid.

A friend convinced me to send my kid to public and take the money I would have spent on tuition and just put it in an index fund every year and give it to him when he retires, he will never have to worry about his retirement. It's well over a million now. It will be over 20 million in inflation adjusted dollars by the time he hits 65.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The Ivy is an athletic league.

It is more than that now.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:W&M is older than several Ivys - founded in 1693, I think.

UVa says founded 1819, but I think classes did not start that year.

VT is much newer, created explicitly to be the land-grant university.

W&M is the second oldest school in the country!

Oldest university.

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Anonymous wrote:A degree from UVA is Ivy-league because UVA is one of the original Public Ivies.

Public Ivies offer the same standard of education as the Ivies, in a public school environment and at a public school cost. These schools are more than just non-Ivies — they're some of the best schools you can attend in the world today.

Just search "best public universities in USA" and you'll find UVA.

Ivy is an athletic league.

There are no public “Ivies.” There are no little “Ivies.” Use of these terms is a symptom of insecurity.

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Louder for the twits in the back. People are laughing behind their backs when they hear them refer to their kids' school as "Public Ivies, Little Ivies," etc.

Public Ivy has been a term used by college counselors since 1985. See Wikipedia. Get a grip and stop heckling ; you look like idiots.

+1. While I wouldn’t go around just saying “my kid goes to a public Ivy,” people who mock the term sound ignorant. It’s been common in the college world for decades.

And it’s been ridiculed the entire time. [b]

I personally love when people capitalize it like it’s a real thing.

. Only by you. No one else cares. It’s been a term in use since 1985 abd has its own wiki page. Go find some other aspect of UzvA to try and tear down. Sorry you are envious.

Birds Aren’t Real has a wiki page too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birds_Aren%27t_Real

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:A degree from UVA is Ivy-league because UVA is one of the original Public Ivies.

Public Ivies offer the same standard of education as the Ivies, in a public school environment and at a public school cost. These schools are more than just non-Ivies — they're some of the best schools you can attend in the world today.

Just search "best public universities in USA" and you'll find UVA.

Lol - that isn't a thing. Just click bait.

I don't like the term either because it venerates the ivy league. I wish there were a better less fawning lickspittle way to refer to the best state colleges but this is the easiest way to communicate the general message without having to educate everyone you want to talk to about this topic.

And putting them to sleep while you do so? I mean, come on. The term "little/public/whatever Ivies" is just so navel-gazing and insecure. Just the fact that you seriously think you need to "educate everyone" about it is so... sad.
DP

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Anonymous wrote:A degree from UVA is Ivy-league because UVA is one of the original Public Ivies.

Public Ivies offer the same standard of education as the Ivies, in a public school environment and at a public school cost. These schools are more than just non-Ivies — they're some of the best schools you can attend in the world today.

Just search "best public universities in USA" and you'll find UVA.

Lol - that isn't a thing. Just click bait.

I don't like the term either because it venerates the ivy league. I wish there were a better less fawning lickspittle way to refer to the best state colleges but this is the easiest way to communicate the general message without having to educate everyone you want to talk to about this topic.

And putting them to sleep while you do so? I mean, come on. The term "little/public/whatever Ivies" is just so navel-gazing and insecure. Just the fact that you seriously think you need to "educate everyone" about it is so... sad.
DP

DP but it’s pretty clear from the ignorance in this discussion that some of you would benefit from PP educating you.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:A degree from UVA is Ivy-league because UVA is one of the original Public Ivies.

Public Ivies offer the same standard of education as the Ivies, in a public school environment and at a public school cost. These schools are more than just non-Ivies — they're some of the best schools you can attend in the world today.

Just search "best public universities in USA" and you'll find UVA.

Lol - that isn't a thing. Just click bait.

I don't like the term either because it venerates the ivy league. I wish there were a better less fawning lickspittle way to refer to the best state colleges but this is the easiest way to communicate the general message without having to educate everyone you want to talk to about this topic.

And putting them to sleep while you do so? I mean, come on. The term "little/public/whatever Ivies" is just so navel-gazing and insecure. Just the fact that you seriously think you need to "educate everyone" about it is so... sad.
DP

DP but it’s pretty clear from the ignorance in this discussion that some of you would benefit from PP educating you.

You seem to be missing the point, which is we've ALL heard of the term and know when it originated (decades and decades ago). We don't need to be lectured to about what it meant. People no longer refer to schools in this way *unless* they are terribly insecure and defensive that their kid isn't actually at an Ivy. Let it go. Using that terminology marks you as an insufferable bore.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The Ivy is an athletic league.

It is more than that now.

Or less than that now. For example, Harvard and Columbia are quickly fading, while southern universities are ascending.

Rather than the anachronistic and inaccurate sports-league moniker, the USNWR rank is commonly used, and people pay greater attention to the T10, T20, T30, etc. than “ivy.”

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Anonymous wrote:A degree from UVA is Ivy-league because UVA is one of the original Public Ivies.

Public Ivies offer the same standard of education as the Ivies, in a public school environment and at a public school cost. These schools are more than just non-Ivies — they're some of the best schools you can attend in the world today.

Just search "best public universities in USA" and you'll find UVA.

Lol - that isn't a thing. Just click bait.

I don't like the term either because it venerates the ivy league. I wish there were a better less fawning lickspittle way to refer to the best state colleges but this is the easiest way to communicate the general message without having to educate everyone you want to talk to about this topic.

And putting them to sleep while you do so? I mean, come on. The term "little/public/whatever Ivies" is just so navel-gazing and insecure. Just the fact that you seriously think you need to "educate everyone" about it is so... sad.
DP

DP but it’s pretty clear from the ignorance in this discussion that some of you would benefit from PP educating you.

You seem to be missing the point, which is we've ALL heard of the term and know when it originated (decades and decades ago). We don't need to be lectured to about what it meant. People no longer refer to schools in this way *unless* they are terribly insecure and defensive that their kid isn't actually at an Ivy. Let it go. Using that terminology marks you as an insufferable bore.

Exactly.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:W&M is older than several Ivys - founded in 1693, I think.

UVa says founded 1819, but I think classes did not start that year.

VT is much newer, created explicitly to be the land-grant university.

W&M is the second oldest school in the country!

Oldest university.

No, Harvard is the oldest, 1636

[Anonymous]

Harvard is the oldest college. William and Mary is the first university as it was the first to have a law school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Ivy is an athletic league.

It is more than that now.

Or less than that now. For example, Harvard and Columbia are quickly fading, while southern universities are ascending.

Rather than the anachronistic and inaccurate sports-league moniker, the USNWR rank is commonly used, and people pay greater attention to the T10, T20, T30, etc. than “ivy.”

Harvard and Columbia quickly fading? The data does not support this whatsoever.

In fact it's much harder to get in than ever before!

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Anonymous wrote:A degree from UVA is Ivy-league because UVA is one of the original Public Ivies.

Public Ivies offer the same standard of education as the Ivies, in a public school environment and at a public school cost. These schools are more than just non-Ivies — they're some of the best schools you can attend in the world today.

Just search "best public universities in USA" and you'll find UVA.

Ivy is an athletic league.

There are no public “Ivies.” There are no little “Ivies.” Use of these terms is a symptom of insecurity.

+1
Louder for the twits in the back. People are laughing behind their backs when they hear them refer to their kids' school as "Public Ivies, Little Ivies," etc.

Public Ivy has been a term used by college counselors since 1985. See Wikipedia. Get a grip and stop heckling ; you look like idiots.

"See Wikipedia"???? Bwahaha!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A degree from UVA is Ivy-league because UVA is one of the original Public Ivies.

Public Ivies offer the same standard of education as the Ivies, in a public school environment and at a public school cost. These schools are more than just non-Ivies — they're some of the best schools you can attend in the world today.

Just search "best public universities in USA" and you'll find UVA.

Lol - that isn't a thing. Just click bait.

I don't like the term either because it venerates the ivy league. I wish there were a better less fawning lickspittle way to refer to the best state colleges but this is the easiest way to communicate the general message without having to educate everyone you want to talk to about this topic.

And putting them to sleep while you do so? I mean, come on. The term "little/public/whatever Ivies" is just so navel-gazing and insecure. Just the fact that you seriously think you need to "educate everyone" about it is so... sad.
DP

DP but it’s pretty clear from the ignorance in this discussion that some of you would benefit from PP educating you.

You seem to be missing the point, which is we've ALL heard of the term and know when it originated (decades and decades ago). We don't need to be lectured to about what it meant. People no longer refer to schools in this way *unless* they are terribly insecure and defensive that their kid isn't actually at an Ivy. Let it go. Using that terminology marks you as an insufferable bore.

Nope, the point was that several people had not heard of it and thought they were being clever, but were actually exposing their ignorance about a concept that has existed for decades to describe a certain type of school. Sorry. You can try to backpedal but it won’t work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Ivy is an athletic league.

It is more than that now.

Or less than that now. For example, Harvard and Columbia are quickly fading, while southern universities are ascending.

Rather than the anachronistic and inaccurate sports-league moniker, the USNWR rank is commonly used, and people pay greater attention to the T10, T20, T30, etc. than “ivy.”

I love this poster. You are hilarious. You're right, you're right. Clemson and Tennessee's admissions rate have gone down to the 40% which is unheard of at the same time that Harvard's admissions rate has crept up to about 4% when it used to be 3.6% It is a real revearsal. Looks like everybody prefers sunshine and fraternities.