What are some alternatives to Ivy league schools?

im in high school and i get very good grades, but i realize that ivy league schools are very, very hard to get into. What are some good alternatives to ivy league?

What are some alternatives to Ivy league schools?
Any school of higher learning is an alternative to an Ivy League school. Much depends upon how much you or your family can afford to spend on your education.Then again, the major you wish to pursue has a bearing on the college you want to attend. Smaller schools offer the student a better education with fewer students per instructor and fewer auditorium filled lecture courses. There you can become a personality rather than a number on the roster.
Reply:Notre Dame
Reply:depends where you want to go and what you want to do.

UC's in CA are very good. Stanford U. is known as the west coast ivy league. there's CIT, MIT...so many good ones. do soem research.
Reply:Check out:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/30/educat...



My favourite is Pitzer. Would I attend it over an ivy? No - but not because I don't think it is at least as good as an ivy - it's because all the ivies are doing a lot to ensure they are affordable. So much so they have very high rankings as the best value schools:

http://education.yahoo.com/college/essen...



And Ranto is correct - Catlec, MIT etc are as good as iveis -and just as good in the vlaue depratment.



Thanks

Bill
Reply:Go to a Community College. Get good grades and then transfer to an Ivy League school. Some Universities like USC accept sophomore transfers. So you can get one quarter of straight A's and then spend the rest of the year filling out transfer applications. By the second year, you'll be in a great University.
Reply:State colleges! Easier to get into, a LOT more affordable, and still get a good education. Plus, for the regular person, it doesn't really matter when getting a job if your school was an Ivy League school or not. Now if you can get into one and foot the bill at an Ivy League, good for you! Also, going to a community college for your first 2 years and then transferring into a 4 year school. That's what my husband did. We happen to be one of the only college graduates who don't have any debt! We just bought our first house at age 25 and 23. Watch out for tuitiion so you aren't one of the millions of Americans paying off student loans until they are 40. Good luck!
Reply:well what kind of gpa do you have?



Extracaricular activities?



community service hours



any type of club with leadership involved



you need alot of those in order to go to an alternate school if you dont get into ivy league, with those you can get into some pretty good colleges with great education like notre dame....etc
Reply:The first link below will bring you to US News rankings of US colleges and universities. The schools near the top are the best alternatives to the Ivies. The obvious ones are MIT, Duke, Stanford, Northwestern, Chicago and Cal Tech. Less obvious ones would be Rice, Emory, Vanderbilt, Washington University in St Louis and NYU. You also have the top public universities as alternatives -- Berkeley, Michigan, Virginia, UNC, Wisconsin, etc.



The second link is to Princeton Review. They have a tool wher eyou enter information about your background and interests -- and it suggests appropriate schools for you.



Someone suggested going to community college and then transferring to an Ivy League school. That is a bad plan -- as some Ivy League schools do not accept transfer students %26amp; the others only accept 20-35 out of over a thousand applications.