There are plenty of great schools not in the Ivy League
From a young age, most academically inclined students have a goal; get into an Ivy League school. For those not familiar, the Ivy League is a conglomerate of schools in a division 1 athletic conference who are considered the strongest academic colleges in the United States. They are Harvard, Yale, Brown, Dartmouth, UPenn, Princeton, Columbia and Cornell. From a young age, if you are an excellent student, societal pressure and maybe internal burden tell these kids that if they do not get into one of these schools then they are a failure. This is a very narrow-minded view that a 17–18-year-old may see but there are some great schools in the United States that are not in the Ivy League. Some of these schools congeal in other NCAA athletic conferences. There is the Division 3 NESCAC Conference that consists of Tufts, Wesleyan, Williams, Trinity, Middlebury, Hamilton, Connecticut College, Bowdoin, Bates and Amherst. There is also Division 3 UAA Conference consisting of Emory, Roc...