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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Northwestern is not considered an Ivy Plus college by Harvard, Yale or Princeton.

UChicago is.[/quote]
For graduate programs, maybe. But no way for undergraduate. It’s just not a top 10. [/quote]

lol...is Harvard in on some conspiracy?

https://library.harvard.edu/visit/visitor-access-borrowing-cards
Our partnership with BorrowDirect allows physical access to our libraries to affiliates of[b] fellow Ivy Plus institutions:[/b] Brown University, Columbia University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Duke University, Johns Hopkins University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Princeton University, Stanford University, [b]University of Chicago[/b], University of Pennsylvania, and Yale University.[/quote]
How laughable to use Ivy Plus library access as proof of prestige. That is like saying students from two schools can use the same vending machine, so what? BorrowDirect is a library access agreement. That is all. And in 2026, when so much academic material is digital anyway, using library access as a prestige signal is absurd.

The way simpletons reason is honestly ridiculous.
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NP. The Ivy Plus Libraries consortium isn’t some holy list but it’s not like they’re just including any university in that group. You have to be deemed an “Ivy Plus” to be a member but I understand that probably upsets the Northwestern moms. Not something to get super worked up about regardless because Chicago doesn’t need to cling to the “Ivy Plus” label to hold its own.[/quote]

NP.  I am not a “Northwestern mom", and I don't think PP is necessarily one either.  But the “Northwestern moms” line is funny, because Northwestern has a much larger endowment, stronger finances, and plenty of its own institutional prestige.

The people clinging hardest to the Ivy "+" label are usually the ones trying to use it as a substitute for more substantive arguments.  Desparate! [/quote]

Agreed on the last part. So it was hilarious when a Northwestern mom made a whole post complaining that it wasn’t a part of the Ivy Plus Libraries! Truly desperate to cling to that label — a signal of weakness.[/quote]

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