Why are people in the northeast so ignorant of Stanford?

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<p>BengalTiger234 to answer your question about the bitterness is because stanford was not an original ivy. The originals were Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Penn, Cornell, Brown and Dartmouth. </p>

<p><a href=“http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivy_league[/url]”>http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivy_league&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>And since these are all in the Northeast, any other name mentioned as an ivy uneases people from the northeast.</p>