When you think of colleges with regard for excellence, Ivy League schools pop into your mind. Known to provide educations, the eight Ivy League schools—Harvard, Yale, Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania, Brown, Dartmouth, Cornell, and Columbia—are well known as highly selective, private institutions.
But many students are completely unaware of the other lesser-known alternative that gives the prestige and academic tenacity of an Ivy League school: the Public Ivy.
The term “Public Ivy” was minted in 1985 by Richard Moll, then the dean of admissions at the University of California–Santa Cruz, in his book Public Ivies: A Guide to America's Best Public Undergraduate Colleges and Universities. Moll regarded the eight schools in his book Public Ivies because they provided an educational experience on par with the Ivy League, but at a much lesser price.
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