Alt-Ivies 2023

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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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

+1. They are nuts. That’s not the definition of public Ivy and Notre Dame has never been named a Public Ivy. There’s a wiki page on the topic of public ivies which explains all.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Nice list, but never heard of that third school.

They forgot the “Tech.”

Yeah, right, lmao

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

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

Seriously. Also, I hope the bolded was a typo and the PP meant Penn, not Penn State. How utterly stupid to say that actual Ivies aren't "true Ivies."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

Bingo.

[Anonymous]

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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.

It really is. I come here for the laughs nowadays.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

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

Seriously. Also, I hope the bolded was a typo and the PP meant Penn, not Penn State. How utterly stupid to say that actual Ivies aren't "true Ivies."

A reminder that the Ivy League is just sports league that has brought 8 schools together. All of those member institutions who play in that league are, in fact, true Ivies.
I find it hilarious that people on DCUM hate high-academic college sports but LOVE talking about the Ivy League left and right. Some even talk about a D3 conference (NESCAC).

[Anonymous]

UPenn and Cornell U are part of the Ivy League. By the way, the Ivy League is a division 1 sports league- like the big 10.
You can debate whether the academics at these two schools compare with the other IVy league universities but it’s a fact that they are in the Ivy League.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

Bingo.

Easy for you peolple to say.....in fact you just did.....count another microaggression...yes, they do add up....and take a toll....only if you knew....but you don't and never will. Bye Felicia.

[Anonymous]

Everybody I know, of every race and ethnicity, is tiptoeing around in fear of offending someone. That’s not healthy for anyone in a pluralistic society.

Nobody is downplaying actual aggressions, which should obviously not be tolerated. But sometimes you are in a crowd and bump into someone. If that person is of a similar background as you, they probably assume you simply weren’t paying attention & everything is fine. But if they are of a different background from you, it’s possible they will brand the bump as a microaggression and assume you are a complete jerk, even though it’s likely (given the previous tiptoeing comment) that you simply weren’t paying attention. I’m aware that “bumping” is a simplistic example a microaggression, but if you substitute just about any other minor slight for the bumping, the pattern is similar.

There are many hucksters in the U.S. hoping to profit from hatred. Let’s not fall into their traps.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Everybody I know, of every race and ethnicity, is tiptoeing around in fear of offending someone. That’s not healthy for anyone in a pluralistic society.

Nobody is downplaying actual aggressions, which should obviously not be tolerated. But sometimes you are in a crowd and bump into someone. If that person is of a similar background as you, they probably assume you simply weren’t paying attention & everything is fine. But if they are of a different background from you, it’s possible they will brand the bump as a microaggression and assume you are a complete jerk, even though it’s likely (given the previous tiptoeing comment) that you simply weren’t paying attention. I’m aware that “bumping” is a simplistic example a microaggression, but if you substitute just about any other minor slight for the bumping, the pattern is similar.

There are many hucksters in the U.S. hoping to profit from hatred. Let’s not fall into their traps.

white person alert

[Anonymous]

Love the tiptoeing I hear everyday from Trump, DeSantis, Youngkin, fake CRT hysteria, slavery had personal benefits for the enslaved, DEI cancellations, affirmative action rulings but legacy lives on......

Just gotta learn how to ignore those "bumps" in a crowd.....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Everybody I know, of every race and ethnicity, is tiptoeing around in fear of offending someone. That’s not healthy for anyone in a pluralistic society.

Nobody is downplaying actual aggressions, which should obviously not be tolerated. But sometimes you are in a crowd and bump into someone. If that person is of a similar background as you, they probably assume you simply weren’t paying attention & everything is fine. But if they are of a different background from you, it’s possible they will brand the bump as a microaggression and assume you are a complete jerk, even though it’s likely (given the previous tiptoeing comment) that you simply weren’t paying attention. I’m aware that “bumping” is a simplistic example a microaggression, but if you substitute just about any other minor slight for the bumping, the pattern is similar.

There are many hucksters in the U.S. hoping to profit from hatred. Let’s not fall into their traps. [/quote

Truly tone deaf, and obviously someone not speaking from direct experience.

[Anonymous]

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

Howard, an alt-Ivy? Who wrote that article?

[Anonymous]

UCSD has to be a typo