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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]From a purely academic, cultural, and quality standpoint, and not an athletic one (which, let's be honest, is the real relevance of the Ivy League), it's: Stanford, MIT, Duke, Chicago, Northwestern, and Johns Hopkins.

Let's not get into inane hypotheticals about DI vs DIII, or bring in lesser schools just for the sake of entertaining your own personal fantasy.[/quote]

Same repeat poster in this thread.

Serious question: Which elite academic schools do you think would benefit from Ivy League membership ?

Stanford just doesn't need the Ivy League, and if Stanford joined the Ivy League, it would likely reduce Stanford's brand value.

Would Chicago be willing to give up its reputation for quirkiness and manipulative marketing tactics for Ivy membership ? Doubtful as Chicago has mastered its marketing scheme and doesn't need the Ivy brand.

MIT also seems to be doing fine on its own. How would MIT benefit from joining the Ivy League ? MIT already has a brand as powerful as Harvard and Stanford. And you want us to ignore athletics.

Duke ? Duke's culture includes a heavy athletic emphasis that would be greatly diminished by Ivy League membership.

Northwestern has everything that it needs or wants in Big Ten membership regarding money, athletics, prestige, and research.

That leaves Johns Hopkins from your list and Carnegie Mellon from mine.[/quote]

Carnegie Mellon doesn't quite make the cut in terms of prestige/overall academics (though it shines in CS). Neither does Georgetown, as others in this thread have said.[/quote]

CMU has strong academics beyond CS, and has a very highly regarded theater school which admits well under 5% of all applicants (if I recall correctly).[/quote]

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