West Coast Ivy League

California1600
Wed, 01 Dec 2004 06:25:46 +0000

And I respectfully disagree. As another poster mentioned in another thread like this, merely because the Ivy League is a grouping of eight prestigious schools (on varying levels) does not mean that there is anything implicitly prestigious about the Ivy League. The Ivy League has not changed; what has is the layman’s definition of the Ivy League… and I don’t think I’m alone in questioning the authority of the layman to define what has not changed in the last century. >>>>>>






My my. You must be Karl Rove’s long lost brother.

Ask any Brown, Dartmouth graduate what is the best about their school. They will inevitably say " Oh the Ivy League pedigree". Oh my gawd is what I am thinking at that point. Having seen UC Irvine students that impress me more on average than Brown students, it seems silly to cling to this “Ivy League status makes me superior” and then claim that it doesn’t really matter.

If you truly believe in your ivy status, than you should not feel threatened by a west coast Ivy league that matches the backslapping network of the east coast ivy league. Also, remember that this will force schools like Brown to improve their seriously deficient departments, and in the end become better for it.

Remember that competition is a good thing. Always has and always will. To obscure the benefits of competition into a monopoly is when society truly loses out on benefits of improving standards.