<p>For undergraduates, breadth and depth of academic program offerings is not really the most distinctive feature of the 8 Ivy League schools. If you want a major research university that offers a very similar undergraduate experience on the west coast (or even west of the Mississippi), Stanford is about it. There are many other fine schools, arguably even better than some of the Ivies depending on what you want (e.g. archaeology, business, CS, engineering, Zulu), but for undergraduates, they are not quite the same institutional species.</p>