Ivy with school atmosphere closest to big school, like Big Ten

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Anonymous wrote:Some of us who know better PREFER the Big 10 experience and culture to the Ivys.

That's so sad for you all.

Not sad at all. Sensible. Ivy schools aren’t some magic place that give you an amazing life by attending. A kid smart enough to get in to an Ivy is smart enough to have a great career after attending a big 10 school. If someone wants that big football experience in college, they will be sorely disappointed by every Ivy school.

Cornell at least has excitement around hockey. Went to a game at Harvard and the student section was just sad and depressing. Zero school spirit. The Harvard-Yale football game is a drunken alumni event, and not in a good way. If op’s dd is hoping for 1/10th the school spirit she’s seen at Big 10 games, she’ll be left disappointed.

Your kid gets one undergrad experience. Why not let her pick the one she wants?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:None of them.
Not even Cornell which is the biggest ivy.
Just let her apply to big 10.

Stanford.
Duke.

Try public Ivy like UCLA, Berkeley, Michigan, UVA, UT Austin, UNC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:None of them.
Not even Cornell which is the biggest ivy.
Just let her apply to big 10.

Stanford.
Duke.

Try public Ivy like UCLA, Berkeley, Michigan, UVA, UT Austin, UNC.

-Ucla & Cal, good schools. But their general school spirit, gameday atmosphere & support of football is nowhere near the experience at Michigan.

[Anonymous]

Stanford's athletics as a whole are elite, though generally only so-so in the revenue sports. And school spirit is totally fine but nowhere near Big Ten levels.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:None of them.
Not even Cornell which is the biggest ivy.
Just let her apply to big 10.

Stanford.
Duke.

Try public Ivy like UCLA, Berkeley, Michigan, UVA, UT Austin, UNC.

-Ucla & Cal, good schools. But their general school spirit, gameday atmosphere & support of football is nowhere near the experience at Michigan.

Yeah, because they're not fukken insane

[Anonymous]

Guys, this kid isn't getting into an Ivy, so don't worry about it.

Unless she's adopted. Then it's a maybe.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:None of them.
Not even Cornell which is the biggest ivy.
Just let her apply to big 10.

Stanford.
Duke.

Try public Ivy like UCLA, Berkeley, Michigan, UVA, UT Austin, UNC.

Pssst: “public Ivy” is not a thing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just came to say NU, USC and ND.

This

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Guys, this kid isn't getting into an Ivy, so don't worry about it.

Unless she's adopted. Then it's a maybe.

Feel better about yourself? Checked that box for daily validation?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some of us who know better PREFER the Big 10 experience and culture to the Ivys.

That's so sad for you all.

Not sad at all. Sensible. Ivy schools aren’t some magic place that give you an amazing life by attending. A kid smart enough to get in to an Ivy is smart enough to have a great career after attending a big 10 school. If someone wants that big football experience in college, they will be sorely disappointed by every Ivy school.

Cornell at least has excitement around hockey. Went to a game at Harvard and the student section was just sad and depressing. Zero school spirit. The Harvard-Yale football game is a drunken alumni event, and not in a good way. If op’s dd is hoping for 1/10th the school spirit she’s seen at Big 10 games, she’ll be left disappointed.

Your kid gets one undergrad experience. Why not let her pick the one she wants?

You can’t argue with strivers. It’s the only thing they know.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Just let her go to the school she wants! You sound awful and Ivy obsessed.

Oh lord, please don't tell me that if your child were qualified for an Ivy you wouldn't explore them applying. We are a proud Big Ten family, hence why I said I understand her interest in those. I think the top ones provide the best of everything! I know very little about any of the Ivy schools and I thought this would be a place to get some useful input on subjective criteria.

Northwestern is just as good as most of the Ivies. If my kid was “qualified for an Ivy” and wanted a Big 10 experience, we’d tour and see if she wanted to apply ED.

I have no allegiance to Northwestern, but it is on par with any Ivy and the top 5-10% at most of the Big10 schools would be on par with the Ivy undergrad caliber.

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Anonymous wrote:Penn? I mean that’s a bit of a stretch though, none of them really. Why not look at honors colleges in big 10 or northwestern

Northwestern is Big 10.

+2 Are people really that clueless about football?

Big 10 is not just a football conference.

What are you talking about? The Big Ten is a football conference. That’s literally what it is.

DP

The CIC became the B1G Alliance, it is more than afootball or sports conference

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Ten_Academic_Alliance

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In 1980, The Ivy League wanted to expand. It engaged in discussions with Northwestern--which is a founding member of the big ten Conference. Northwestern shut down the discussions due to travel distance for athletic teams.

Northwestern is building a new football stadium with a lower seating capacity than the old stadium.

Consider USC, Michigan, UCLA, U Washington at Seattle, U Oregon, Northwestern, and Wisconsin all of which are now Big Ten Conference member schools.

Notre Dame, Duke, and Vanderbilt are others to consider as well.

Wisconsin is a charter member of the B1G.

[Anonymous]

Dartmouth might be most similar in terms of being a more frat/drinking oriented culture

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Dartmouth might be most similar in terms of being a more frat/drinking oriented culture

Big Ten is drinking on game day, not drinking in the woods.