What is the Best Ivy League College on Long Island?

I would have to say Long Island University at C.W. Post is the best. I also went to Adelphi, but C.W. Post just seems to be more rigorous in their standards. Hofstra I am sure ranks up there, but I never attended that school.





I have come across individuals who think that the above mentioned schools are not Ivy League. Clearly they are as they are very expensive, private, difficult to get into and tend to cater to upper-middle-class to lower-upper-class students. Some people claim there are only 8 or so Ivy League schools. Granted, those may be the original, but others have achieved Ivy League status. LOL, and I wouldn't use U.S. News %26amp; World Report or Newsweek rankings as legitimate meters to judge schools, those are only opinions.

What is the Best Ivy League College on Long Island?
STONY BROOK...lol.





Good job buddy, you have already asked this question before (albeit ha pasado mucho tiempo) and I already answered it.





Along with what Eri said, Ivy League is called a league for a reason. It is an athletic conference. Like ACC, Pac 10, Big 10 etc. You reasoning is stupid. That is like saying that UCLA is an ACC school just because they are good at basketball, or that USC is a Big 10 school because they are good at Football. USC might be Big 10 "quality" but that doesn't mean it is in the big 10.





So Ivy quality schools, that is a legitimate argument. There are plenty of them. Previously mentioned caltech, MIT then you have Stanford, Duke, UChicago, Northwestern etc. Too bad there are no Ivy qualities on Long Island. New York is lacking in great universities. They have a weak public school system and 3 great privates. Columbia, NYU and Cornell. RPI and Syracuse are pretty good but I wouldn't call them ivy quality.





It is too bad that no one has heard of Adelphi, and C.W. Post sounds like a fake name an Author would use.
Reply:Either you have posted this question before or you are as uninformed as another user who has posted this question. Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, UPenn, Brown, Cornell and Dartmouth college are the only 8 schools in the nation designated as Ivy League. This is a fact not an opinion. LIU, Adelphi and Hofstra are not even 3rd tier schools. That is also a fact.
Reply:The original 8 colleges in the Ivy League are called that because it's a football league - and they aren't taking new members. So those are the only official Ivy League colleges. However, plenty of colleges are just as good as those - CalTech, MIT, Berkeley - and are similarly ranked, and are not part of the football league. So they aren't Ivy League - they are just outstanding colleges.





Since most of the colleges take the US New reports pretty seriously, I think I'll go with their opinion - all the schools I went to email their alumni and students when they rise in the rankings, even one spot.





The only Ivy League near Long Island is Columbia. I haven't even heard of Aldelphi or CW Post, and I have relatives all over Long Island. LIU is not a very high ranked university. Overall, none of those schools are even known outside of that area. That doesn't say much for their status. They are probably good universities, but certainly not 'Ivy League'.
Reply:The Ivy Leagues are


Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Dartmouth, Brown, Columbia, Cornell, and UPenn. Theyre a football league. Just because highly competitive colleges like Boston University, New York University, or Stanford University have good reputations doesn't mean they're ivy.
Reply:OK, Long Island U at C.W. Post is hard to get in to, it has a 19% acceptance rate, but it doesn't have the prestige of the Ivies--actually doesn't have much prestige at all. Their standards are really low, though, for SAT scores. Its grad school is pretty bad, though. It accepts 68% of applicants. That's a LOT.


Hofstra accepts over half their applicants, and so does Adelphi. Rigorous in their standards? Um, no.