> It's wild that the shorthand for "good school" is what sports division some schools in/around Massachusetts are in. Nice meme, but that really doesn’t do jus

> It's wild that the shorthand for "good school" is what sports division some schools in/around Massachusetts are in. Nice meme, but that really doesn’t do justice to the reality. - Seven of the schools that became the Ivy League were “colonial colleges” (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonial_colleges https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonial_colleges). William & Mary and Rutgers did not become part of the Ivy League, and Cornell (not a colonial college) did. - They are all research universities, which makes them distinct from many colleges that seem to have similar origins. - The schools are all in the northeast corridor, but Massachusetts is definitely on the Eastern side of the Ivy geographic area. Ivies center more around colonial era settlements than the state of Massachusetts.