Wasn't the NY Times editor a GDS grad?. Oops. He was STA.

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Anonymous wrote:I was floored by my kid’s admissions this year. Last year they had a couple off to Ivies. This year fully 10%.

GDS is more like 30 percent to the Ivys, with a number admitted to top Ivys.

30% of the GDS class is not going to Ivys. Why are you so obsessed with Ivys? Like all schools, there are kids at the top of the class who didn't even apply to Ivys so using that as a gauge is irrelevant.
-GDS parent

If you people are going to type "Ivys" rather than "Ivies," you are playing in the wrong sandbox and forfeit all right to snipe with each other.

You might want to take that up with the NY Times copy editor, among others. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/22/business/college-investor-who-beats-the-ivys.html

burn.

NY Times is inconsistent, now that media is laying off copy editors right and left:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/12/us/SAT-bonus-ivy-league.html

But the New Yorker beats NY Times on style every time and correctly uses "Ivies."

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/09/01/poison-ivy

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2005/10/10/getting-in



Not that the NY Times is consistent.

sure, but the point really is that nobody is right or wrong. You can find it both ways online and I know Ivy League grads who do it differently.

A writer (or maybe a few) wrote it that way for whatever reason does not mean it's the right way to write it. It should be "ivies" not "ivys" from both linguistic and historic views, just like candies can't be candys. Let's not be fooled by a sloppy writer.