Leaving the Ivy League

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Opinions vary. The author of Excellent Sheep, a former Yale professor, writes his impressions regarding a few of the Ivies in this passage, for example:

My examples come from Yale, since that is where I taught. If anything, it probably deserves its reputation as being the best among elite universities (as distinct from liberal arts colleges) at nurturing creativitiy and intellectual independence. Notoriously preprofessional places like Penn, Duke, or Washington University, or notoriously anti-intellectual ones like Princeton or Dartmouth, are clearly far worse.

I’d question the use of “notoriously,” but the rest of the quotation seems to serve as an opinion worth consideration, particularly since its essence appears to align with your own impressions.