Why do you think Northwestern is not in the “ivy plus“ bracket?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Too good at sports. And that is not me being clever.

Huh? Northwestern is too good at sports to be considered Ivy+? What does that mean for Duke and Stanford?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w31492/w31492.pdf

In a paper on college admissions, Harvard professors define Ivy-Plus college as Ivy League, Stanford, MIT, Duke, and Chicago. They say that Ivy-Plus colleges are distinctive in this respect: a far smaller share of individuals in these leadership positions attended other highly selective colleges (e.g., public state flagship universities or other highly-ranked private colleges) despite the fact that those institutions enroll many more students.

Harvard professors also think Jews are fun to chase around campus.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There is such a DMV bias here. If Hopkins is top 15, it is 15. It is a great school. I am not hating on it. But it is not on par with the others. And Northwestern is a slight notch down as well (on par with Hopkins).

Again, not insulting either. Being 14 and 15 is truly incredible.

And Ivies will always be Ivies. It is a cottage industry here to insult the non-HYP ivies. Guess what - they will always be incredibly desirable. They will always lose plenty of kids to other schools. But they will always be at or near the top.

lol what a dumb take. Hopkins and NU outshine and out rank many other top 15 schools. brown and dartmouth stem is woefully bad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I realize it is a made up category, but at the same time, it’s just a shorthand for a quality signifier! So why does Northwestern not make that “Ivy Plus” cut, in spite of its current ranking at #6?

USnews is compromised and its rating system is suspect .
Follow QS ranking for more accurate rankings..
https://www.topuniversities.com/qs-world-university-rankings

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I realize it is a made up category, but at the same time, it’s just a shorthand for a quality signifier! So why does Northwestern not make that “Ivy Plus” cut, in spite of its current ranking at #6?

It's not actually a made up category.

The Ivy Plus Libraries confederation includes the 8 Ivy, Duke, Chicago, MIT, Stanford, and Johns Hopkins.
It has become shorthand for ivy level schools but there are notable exclusions like Caltech, Northwestern, Bucknell, Carnegie Mellon and others.

There is a list of 34 elite schools that tend to be overrepresented in prominent positions in society.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-024-03547-8/tables/1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I realize it is a made up category, but at the same time, it’s just a shorthand for a quality signifier! So why does Northwestern not make that “Ivy Plus” cut, in spite of its current ranking at #6?

USnews is compromised and its rating system is suspect .
Follow QS ranking for more accurate rankings..
https://www.topuniversities.com/qs-world-university-rankings

The reason nobody on DCUM references this list is because U Chicago smokes many of the Ivies, and they can't come to grips with the fact that it's an exceptional school, let alone the other global schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I realize it is a made up category, but at the same time, it’s just a shorthand for a quality signifier! So why does Northwestern not make that “Ivy Plus” cut, in spite of its current ranking at #6?

People actually think this way?