Stanford isn’t part of the Ivy League because the Ivy League is actually an athletic conference, not just a group of prestigious universities.
Here’s why Stanford isn’t in the Ivy League: Ivy League = Athletic Conference: The Ivy League started in the 1950s as a group of eight Northeastern schools competing in sports (Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Brown, and the University of Pennsylvania). It wasn’t about academics originally, though the schools happen to be elite academically.
Geography: Stanford is located on the West Coast (California), far from the Northeastern US where Ivy League schools are based. The Ivy League schools are all clustered in the Northeast.
Different Athletic Conferences: Stanford competes in the Pac-12 Conference, which includes other major West Coast universities like UCLA, USC, and Cal.
But Stanford is still super prestigious: It’s often considered “Ivy League-caliber” in terms of academics and reputation, sometimes called a “Public Ivy” or “Ivy Plus” university because of its excellence.
Stanford isn’t part of the Ivy League because the Ivy League is actually an athletic conference, not just a group of prestigious universities.
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Ivy League = Athletic Conference:
The Ivy League started in the 1950s as a group of eight Northeastern schools competing in sports (Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Brown, and the University of Pennsylvania). It wasn’t about academics originally, though the schools happen to be elite academically.
Geography:
Stanford is located on the West Coast (California), far from the Northeastern US where Ivy League schools are based. The Ivy League schools are all clustered in the Northeast.
Different Athletic Conferences:
Stanford competes in the Pac-12 Conference, which includes other major West Coast universities like UCLA, USC, and Cal.
But Stanford is still super prestigious:
It’s often considered “Ivy League-caliber” in terms of academics and reputation, sometimes called a “Public Ivy” or “Ivy Plus” university because of its excellence.