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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]1. A credential.  An Ivy League degree signals [b]to the world[/b], including future employers, clients, and business partners, that you are a valuable person.  
2. Relationships. If you do it right, you get a peer group of people who are going places, and you'll draw on it throughout your life. 
3. An education.  [/quote]

Agree with your 2, 3. About 1. Most people outside of the US only know about Harvard[/quote]

They also know about Yale, Princeton, and Columbia, and maybe to a lesser degree, the others.  But in the US, all Ivys represent a valuable credential.[/quote]

Not true beyond the fact that the best and brightest from all over the world apply to these schools the UK gives special work visa's to graduates of 20 US Universities, including every Ivy except Dartmouth, along with several other fantastic schools.  
As a parent of a student at an Ivy who had several other great choices it was not the "name" it was the opportunities that drew him.  In particular as a student interested in interdisciplinary studies across stem and humanities his school was one of the few in the country that had similar level programs in all subjects of interest.   He picked it for academic reasons which as parents we understood and supported though we actually wished he would have picked a school closer to home  [/quote]

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