Forbes recently unveiled a new list of top schools outside the Ivy League, citing ongoing anti-Israel protests on Ivy League campuses.
According to Forbes, the publication highlighted a shift in reputations, naming them the “New Ivies” after using various metrics to determine replacements which included disqualifying traditional Ivy League and Ivy-plus schools.
Among them, the University of Florida stood out for its handling of rule-breaking protesters, earning praise for its stance from university spokesman Steve Orlando.
In the last few years, complaints have arisen about these colleges. According to them, the colleges’ admission policies focused more on picking students with specialized skills instead of well-rounded, smart students.
Also, there’s been talk about grades being too high at Harvard and Yale. And lately, there have been criticisms about how the colleges handled protests against the war in Gaza.
The new list of public Ivy League universities
- Binghamton University
- Georgia Institute of Technology
- University of Florida
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- University of Maryland – College Park
- University of Michigan – Ann Arbor
- University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill
- University of Texas – Austin
- University of Virginia
- University of Wisconsin – Madison
Private Ivies
- Boston College
- Carnegie Mellon University
- Emory University
- Georgetown University
- Johns Hopkins University
- Northwestern University
- Rice University
- University of Notre Dame
- University of Southern California
- Vanderbilt University
Forbes Methodology
According to Forbes, by observing the news, one could discern a palpable unease on Ivy League campuses.
It reported that these institutions have faced criticism for their admissions policies, grading practices, and handling of on-campus protests.
The methodology employed therefore involved disqualifying traditional Ivies and Ivy-plus schools, resulting in a pool of 1,743 colleges.
Criteria included high standardized test scores and selectivity measures, alongside surveys of hiring managers.
The resulting list includes well-known institutions like Johns Hopkins and the University of Michigan, alongside others gaining wider recognition such as Binghamton University in New York.
As a double Ivy League alum (the real Ivy League and not the fake so-called “new Ivies”), I am extremely PROUD of the students protests against the ongoing genocide in Gaza and the profiteering therefrom. I ironically I also share Forbes’ and the mostly right wing outrage against the university administrators but for completely OPPOSITE reasons! The gaslighting drivel that opposition to the Israeli government’s genocidal actions equate to antisemitism is simply obtuse and the sort of obfuscatory emotionalism that those who lack rationalism on their side resort to.
For the avoidance of any doubt, I wholeheartedly CONDEMN in the most vitriolic terms the BARBARIC terrorist actions of Hamas on October 7 and also wholeheartedly support Israel’s actions to DEFEND itself. Nonetheless, no human being with any conscience (and absolutely no human being who doesn’t rank humans in a hierarchical order, apparently with Westerners ranked at the top-most rung of the human ladder) should willfully accept or acquiesce in the ongoing SLAUGHTER of tens of thousands of Palestinian kids and babies who have absolutely nothing to do with Hamas or its barbaric attack in their incubators, cribs and beds!
BTW, noteworthy that when our parents campaign in pretty much the same manner (including divestment campaigns) at Ivy League and other US college campuses against South Africa’s APARTHEID during their own era, much of these same sorts of right-wing-led attacks were made against their protests. HISTORY HAS SINCE VALIDATED THEIR PROTESTS!!