DC applied to zero ivies, but did apply to several new ivy/ivy plus schools as her reaches. She is happily going to a so-called "new Ivy" school and is excited!

She skipped over the top ivies as "no hope of getting in, so why bother" and also skipped over the other ivies (Dartmouth, Cornell etc.) as she was not interested.

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Anonymous wrote:Title should be: Ivy Rejects’ Best Alternatives

I know accepted Ivy kids at some of these schools.

yeah that poster is a moron.

Makes perfect sense, particularly for lower ranked Ivies.

There are at least a dozen schools on this list that many students today would choose over comparable Ivy schools. If an engineering or cs student, add more. It's a pretty solid list of schools. Then add in MIT, Stanford, Duke, and Chicago, and you recognize that the Ivy League in 2026 is just a sports league of some of the older private colleges. Different times today.

+1 DC with high stats did not apply to a single Ivy. They did apply to the Ivy plus and public ivies - all known for strong their eng/CS programs.

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Anonymous wrote:Title should be: Ivy Rejects’ Best Alternatives

I know accepted Ivy kids at some of these schools.

yeah that poster is a moron.

Makes perfect sense, particularly for lower ranked Ivies.

There are at least a dozen schools on this list that many students today would choose over comparable Ivy schools. If an engineering or cs student, add more. It's a pretty solid list of schools. Then add in MIT, Stanford, Duke, and Chicago, and you recognize that the Ivy League in 2026 is just a sports league of some of the older private colleges. Different times today.

+1. My DC turned down Brown and Columbia for Medill at Northwestern.

We know a kid who turned down Penn for Medill.

Anonymous wrote:Forbes should do a ranking of top College Rankings Lists by magazines that used to be influential but now have print circulations under 900,000 and use click bait articles generated by AI. Forbes would be #8.

Dc just chose Emory over Yale.

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Anonymous wrote:Title should be: Ivy Rejects’ Best Alternatives

I know accepted Ivy kids at some of these schools.

yeah that poster is a moron.

Makes perfect sense, particularly for lower ranked Ivies.

There are at least a dozen schools on this list that many students today would choose over comparable Ivy schools. If an engineering or cs student, add more. It's a pretty solid list of schools. Then add in MIT, Stanford, Duke, and Chicago, and you recognize that the Ivy League in 2026 is just a sports league of some of the older private colleges. Different times today.

+1. My DC turned down Brown and Columbia for Medill at Northwestern.

If interested in STEM, ideally should go to an R1 university with a large endowment. Thats the key.

Forbes should do a ranking of top College Rankings Lists by magazines that used to be influential but now have print circulations under 900,000 and use click bait articles generated by AI. Forbes would be #8.

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Anonymous wrote:Title should be: Ivy Rejects’ Best Alternatives

I know accepted Ivy kids at some of these schools.

yeah that poster is a moron.

Makes perfect sense, particularly for lower ranked Ivies.

There are at least a dozen schools on this list that many students today would choose over comparable Ivy schools. If an engineering or cs student, add more. It's a pretty solid list of schools. Then add in MIT, Stanford, Duke, and Chicago, and you recognize that the Ivy League in 2026 is just a sports league of some of the older private colleges. Different times today.

agreed

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Anonymous wrote:I always thought Case Western was an underrated hidden gem. It’s kind of interesting how CWRU has been showing up on all these lists recently- Forbes New Ivies, AAUs #1 fastest-growing research university, Times top universities in the world, and Jeff Selingo’s dream schools.

Not to be a downer for you, other than Forbes New Ivies, the cites you list as authority are really not braggable IMHO. Just saying

Why are you so triggered by some school getting more attention? "not braggable"?! Just that wording says much more about your head space than the post you are responding to.

Listen, I have no horse in this race as my kid is at a far different school than those being discussed here. I was just curious to read about this new ranking. But posts like the "braggable" PP just do not make sense other than the need to make some personal swipe.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Title should be: Ivy Rejects’ Best Alternatives

I know accepted Ivy kids at some of these schools.

yeah that poster is a moron.

Makes perfect sense, particularly for lower ranked Ivies.

There are at least a dozen schools on this list that many students today would choose over comparable Ivy schools. If an engineering or cs student, add more. It's a pretty solid list of schools. Then add in MIT, Stanford, Duke, and Chicago, and you recognize that the Ivy League in 2026 is just a sports league of some of the older private colleges. Different times today.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Title should be: Ivy Rejects’ Best Alternatives

I know accepted Ivy kids at some of these schools.

yeah that poster is a moron.

Makes perfect sense, particularly for lower ranked Ivies.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Title should be: Ivy Rejects’ Best Alternatives

I know accepted Ivy kids at some of these schools.

yeah that poster is a moron.

Anonymous wrote:Title should be: Ivy Rejects’ Best Alternatives

I know accepted Ivy kids at some of these schools.