Talk:Ivy League
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Ivy League comparison with Oxbridge in UK
152.163.100.195's edit--that "an alumnus of an ivy league school is called an ivy league graduate or an ivy leaguer"--is too obvious to merit mention, let alone inclusion in the article's lead paragraph. His discussion of "oxbridge" is not relevant and is sufficiently covered by the "see also" link. The edit could arguably be added to the section on "terminology."
- I agree that the following passage should not be in the lead (and agree that it could be rewritten to appear later in terminology. Oxford/Cambridge are interesting because they are collections of colleges, not homogeneous like most individual colleges in the Ivy League. Some Oxford colleges really do not compare well to Cornell and the university itself is demonstrably too diverse and complicated to be compared to Harvard (undergraduate) (but Oxbridge and Ivy League have a similar cachet to each nation, esp. since UK has five times smaller population, the comparison roughly fits in percentage terms, too). Deleted passage as follows:
- "A student or alumnus of an Ivy League member college is an Ivy Leaguer or an Ivy League graduate, terms often used to describe someone of a certain American background, education or intelligence much like the term Oxbridge is used to describe students at the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge in the UK."