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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]This came up on another thread, but for those in the know there is a fairly strong consensus:

1. True Ivies (Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, Columbia, Dartmouth)

2. Public Ivies (Cornell, Penn State, Notre Dame, Cal, UVA, UT, Michigan, Wash. U, Northwestern, NYU)

3. Legitimate SLACs (Williams, Amherst)

4. High-End Trade Schools (MIT, Cal. Tech, Georgia Tech, Duke, Chicago)

After that you might as well save your money.
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This is a ridiculous list that omits so many prestigious schools ([b]UPenn[/b]? Brown? Georgetown? Johns Hopkins? Rice? Vanderbilt?) and you are clearly not in the know.  FYI - Stanford is not an Ivy, Notre Dame/WashU/Northwestern/NYU are not public schools so cannot be "public ivies" and no college is really equivalent to a trade school but Duke and UChicago are absolutely not any kind of trade school.[/quote]

Penn is a satellite campus of Penn State. Not many people actually know this, but credits are readily transferable. This is how people “back door Ivy” themselves.

The other schools in your parenthetical are destitute of prestige.

Stanford is not a member of the athletic Ivy League conference. It is, however, a True Ivy from a prestige perspective.

The term “Public Ivies” does not refer to publicly funded schools, but rather to institutions that are True Ivy approximations but of incrementally lesser stature and are more available to the masses, admit in larger numbers, etc., hence “public” (analogous to how electric is a public utility… it’s not funded by the state, it’s funded by your payments, but is mandated to be available to all and is therefore “public”). [/quote]

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