Originally Posted by Bostonian
I recently explained to a family member (who grew up in another country) that Stanford was not an Ivy League school, and that the Ivy League was "an athletic conference composed of sports teams from eight private institutions of higher education in the Northeastern United States", quoting the Wikipedia. Her plausible logic was

(1) Stanford is famous
(2) the Ivies are famous
(3) Stanford is an Ivy

Duke isn't an Ivy League, either.

However, I was more than willing to go there for law school rather than Cornell.

Ithica is cold.