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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I found this humorous but was chatting with another parent and after I revealed my daughter is going to Cornell she said "that's wonderful, my son is going to an ivy too!". I said "that's great, which one?" and she said "UNC, chapel Hill". I said "I'm sorry that's not ivy league"and she retorted "yes it is, it's a public ivy".

I'm sorry but isn't there only one ivy league? My child worked incredibly hard to get into an ivy I frankly think it's rude to misrepresent and say that UNC is ivy league - even though it is a great school.[/quote]

It's a book published in 1988.  So in that sense, it's a "thing." Basically what it's suggesting is there are high-quality public institutions that offer better value for money than the Ivy League itself. And, that's arguably true.

Whether the schools identified 30 years ago are still the same today is questionable. But many of them are... Michigan and UVA are still great schools, for instance. Miami University in Ohio is a fantastic undergraduate institution with a great reputation as a teaching institution (as opposed to a research institution).

You're being too literal, however. But, yes, it's a "thing."[/quote]

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