Awareness of Cornell being "Ivey"

gellino
Fri, 02 Nov 2007 10:28:04 +0000

My brother was telling me that he was watching a game show where the final question to win $500,000 was to name four of the eight Ivy League schools. The guy named three, paused then said Colgate and lost.

Very few people know or care which schools are in the Ivy League and as gomestar alludes to above going to an “Ivy League” school is not as important as going to a top school and a top school that fits you for that matter. Prestige for prestige’s sake is pretty superficial and meaningless if it doesn’t provide you with anything tangible. I know when I was applying to schools that I kind of liked that not everyone had heard of Dartmouth even though I knew it was a good school that I would like.