"New Ivies"
Bear with me. You have to follow the train of thought.
1. I was reading Women's Hoops Blog, where they were reporting on last weekends' games. Seems the University of Rochester is up there near the top of the D-III standings.
2. This catches my eye because Fly Girl did 3 of her 4 degrees at U of R. So I click through to the U of R website and I see this proclamation that U of R is one of the 25 "New Ivies."
3. So I want to know what the heck a New Ivy is. The short of it is there's a bunch of schools that are not Ivy League schools that are of Ivy League-caliber and just as competitive.
So now I'm thinking that this is just kinda funny. Because that image totally fits with her. Nothing but the best for FG. And I'm thinking "Yeah, yeah, this is some kind of something Kaplan came up with and now all these schools have another marketing gimmick they can use."
Of course I have to flip through the list (included below if you don't want to read the whole article). It's in alphabetical order. I get to Macalester College, which catches my eye because it's here in St. Paul. So far all these schools are really small and/or private schools. I'm thinking that they probably all will be. And I'm thinking this list is kind of silly.
And then the next school is Michigan. Michigan, where for years you've been able to purchase "Harvard, the Michigan of the East" t-shirts. I should probably shut up now.
Michigan was also followed by the likes of NYU, Carolina, UCLA, and Virginia. So they're not all small and/or private. The article lists NYU, Penn, and Northwestern as Michigan's overlap schools. U of R's overlap schools are Cornell, Brown, Tufts, NYU and Northwestern. By some transitive property does that mean Michigan and U of R overlap?
Anyway, to spell out the hypocrisy of it all, I thought the list was silly until I found out my school was on it.
Enh, it's still kind of silly.
Kaplan's 25 New Ivies:
Boston College
Bowdoin College
Carnegie Mellon
Claremont Colleges: Harvey Mudd and Pomona
Colby College
Colgate University
Davidson College
Emory University
Kenyon College
Macalester College
University of Michigan
New York University
University of North Carolina
University of Notre Dame
Olin College of Engineering
Reed College
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Rice University
University of Rochester
Skidmore College
Tufts University
UCLA
Vanderbilt University
University of Virginia
Washington University in St. Louis
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*raises guilty hand*
I'm a double Hoo (UVA) and I was like you're kidding me until I saw UVA which doesn't surprise me b/c UVA is called "The Harvard of the South" I think as long as you take this crap tongue in cheek its cool. There's a great book called "In defense of Elitism" that I had to read in undergrad that talks about the constructs and power of "exclusivity"...interesting.
UNC made the list? Pshaw. There are certainly too many construction vehicles on campus covering up all that ivy for them to qualify.
Interestingly, three of those (including Macalester) actually sent a recruiter my way, back in the Pleistocene era when I was finishing high school. Oh, and one actual Ivy.
I remember getting literature from Macalester when I was in high school. I didn't know how to pronounce it. I kept calling it "MACK-uh-lester."
I actually visited Macalester when I was in high school. It frightened me because the Twin Cities seemed so HUGE and FAR AWAY. So I went to teeny tiny Albion.
The school I work at is supposed to be a Public Ivy, whatever that is.
Huh. There are a couple of schools on there that I never would have imagined would be on the same list as some of the others.
Also, I have several friends who went to a school not on the list who swear up and down that they were invited to be an actual Ivy but took a pass. That it's not on this list makes me chuckle. Not that it's a not a good school/deserving but that they should seriously stop bragging about it.
im suprised schools such as carleton college in MN are not on there. from what i have heard they are the best school in MN. (for those who don't know Macalester in in MN) additionally they are ranked #6 by US news out of all liberal colleges. other colleges im suprised were on there include macalester, kenyon, the claremonts, and colgate. they are all good schools but my research never indicated they were that good