Alt-Ivies 2023

[Anonymous]

I don’t get all the anxiety. Hell hasn’t frozen over. The apocalypse is not nigh. People all know the usual suspect schools. This is simply a list of schools on the upswing that an unhooked smart kid has a chance to get into, & which if their kid attends, the parents can feel proud that they succeeded in raising their kid & in playing the admissions game.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t get all the anxiety. Hell hasn’t frozen over. The apocalypse is not nigh. People all know the usual suspect schools. This is simply a list of schools on the upswing that an unhooked smart kid has a chance to get into, & which if their kid attends, the parents can feel proud that they succeeded in raising their kid & in playing the admissions game.

Exactly.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Reading comprehension here remains poor. Perhaps because dcum loves prestige so much, people assume that is what this ranking is based on. It is a list of “hot” academically strong schools, not a list of the most prestigious schools in the country. Georgetown is a great school but it hasn’t been hot since the 90s. Notre Dame remains the tip top Catholic school but that isn’t enough to make it hot.

What is Georgetown's acceptance rate, do you know?
Ah its 12% RD and 10% ED
If that's not hot I don't know what is. Does it have to be only single digits to qualify??

Georgetown doesn't have ED

But it does have Early Action

https://uadmissions.georgetown.edu/applying/early-action/#:~:text=Applicants%20admitted%20in%20December%20under,made%20to%20any%20other%20schools.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:None of these schools can hold a candle to the Public Ivies. All this jockeying to come up with new lists and designations are a waste of time.

There are the Ivies, the Public Ivies, then everyone else.

Lol public ivys. 🤣 Any T25 private is better than any public school.

Sigh.

Say what you will about the old college message boards, but if they were still around you wouldn’t have clowns like this talking incessant booty chatter.

Public Ivies do not refer to publicly funded institutions. They are “public” in the sense of being more broadly available to the rungs of society that lack sufficient prestige to go True Ivy.

One of the most prominent Public Ivies is Notre Dame, which is a private school. Others are Cornell and Penn State, which are nominally Ivy League but not True Ivies.

Guys at my high school used to make this mistake all the time. Thought we were past that.

You sound nuts so perhaps refrain from lecturing people

[Anonymous]

Tier two - all good schools - but nothing really new here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Howard really?? I’m surprised no Notre Dame…

It's a Black thing, and you obviously don't understand.

Certain top-tier HBCUs are experiencing a flood of admission applications and resulting escalation in selectivity. The short list would include Howard, Morehouse, Spelman, Hampton, and NC A&T. Many Black high school students are rejecting Ivy and top 25 admissions to attend HBCUs to avoid the racism and microaggressions (such as that mentioned above) often experienced at PWI. Also, the expansion of corporate partnerships at HBCUs afford students access to high-quality internships, summer jobs, training, and specialized institutes.

So, yes, Howard!

[Anonymous]

Spelman has had a huge surge in applications. Excellent school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:None of these schools can hold a candle to the Public Ivies. All this jockeying to come up with new lists and designations are a waste of time.

There are the Ivies, the Public Ivies, then everyone else.

Lol public ivys. 🤣 Any T25 private is better than any public school.

+1

ANY.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It' should be more specific.

Alt-T20 2023

Georgetown
Emory
USC
CMU
NYU
UMich
UVA
Tufts
Boston College
Northeastern
Georgia Tech

Where is the Tufts hater when you need him?? LOL.

[Anonymous]

I was with the Howard guy until the micro aggressions comment. Microaggressions, like cultural appropriations, seem to have been invented to fill the void when actual aggressions became scarce.

[Anonymous]

Maybe someday there'll be an update of the "Hidden Ivies" list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hidden_Ivies

Sure — all the "Different Ivies" lists use "Ivy" to catch people's attention. But really, anything that helps expand the definition of "excellent colleges" beyond those well-known eight schools is a plus in my book.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It' should be more specific.

Alt-T20 2023

Georgetown
Emory
USC
CMU
NYU
UMich
UVA
Tufts
Boston College
Northeastern
Georgia Tech

Where is the Tufts hater when you need him?? LOL.

Which has more haters?
Tufts UVA USC NYU Northeastern

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Town and Country, in consultation with Ivywise, just published its 2023 list of “alt-Ivies,”schools that are experiencing dramatic increases in popularity and consequently, selectivity. Might be more accurate to just use the “hot schools” label. Behind a paywall, but here’s the list:

Georgia Tech
Wisconsin
Virginia
Northeastern
Howard
Wake Forest
Miami
Colgate
Wellesley
Michigan
NYU
Boston College
Dennison
Emory
UCSD

This list is comedic.

[Anonymous]

“Which has more haters?
Tufts UVA USC NYU Northeastern”

An interesting group. Their campuses are in 2 huge shadows, haughtily called grounds, guarded by an army of security guards, nonexistent, & recently established, respectively.

All are trying hard and making due with what they have. No need to hate them (even the $#!+hole that waitlisted my kid).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:None of these schools can hold a candle to the Public Ivies. All this jockeying to come up with new lists and designations are a waste of time.

There are the Ivies, the Public Ivies, then everyone else.

Lol public ivys. 🤣 Any T25 private is better than any public school.

+1

ANY.

You know that there is a lot more to a top university than just an undergraduate ranking at USNWR right? There are graduate and professional schools, research, and resources that the top publics offer that aren’t easily duplicated except at a few top elite privates.