<p>MIT wouldn’t even name the bridge right next to their campus the “The MIT Bridge”</p>
<p>Instead, The pompous school down the river was given the opportunity to name the bridge “The Harvard Bridge.”</p>
<p>MIT is not snooty or elitist like the Ivy league schools. They know they are better and have no need to join an exclusive club to verify that.</p>
<p>Stanford might be a candidate… but I think PAC-10 is very profitable for them… and probably a premise for Stanford’s departure would be to invite UC Berkeley into the Ivy league as well… (Stanford would want to continue it’s age old rivalry)… Duke is another option but Duke is profiting from ACC basketball, lacrosse, and etc… so much by fueling the rivalry they have with UNC… California is very far and Duke is very far as well…</p>
<p>UChicago is D3… Northwestern is another candidate. It basically tries to emulate the Ivy league in every shape and form… from changing their color to purple (because elite east coast schools have single colors, not double colors!) to their their logo, to trying to foster an academic and student athlete D1 type atmosphere… Chicago and Northwestern are kinda far from the Northeast.</p>
<p>I would have recommend Johns Hopkins to replace UPenn but we are D3 except in mens lacrosse (where we dominate!)…</p>
<p>What about Georgetown? What other D1 schools in the Northeast that are Ivy caliber type schools… Is Amherst D1?</p>