“Which Ivy Are You?” Survey Asks the Right Questions
Do you ever feel like the admissions committee just got it wrong? That you really are more of a Princetonian than an East Tennessee State Universitian? A new Facebook application called "Which Ivy League School Are You?" can clear everything in just 10 multiple choice questions.
This specific quiz application, now over 51,000 users strong, exists alongside those soothsaying exercises like "Which Disney princess are u?" and "ARE YOU GOOD IN BED?" but we're sure this is the real deal. Written by a graduate of both Harvard and Columbia (and NYU), the questions might as well ask what your favorite brand of socks is or which Golden Girls character have you thought about during sex.
But really. What are the criteria? One wall poster from India also wants to know "How reliable is it?" So being the mad scientists we are, we devised a rigorous experiment, put on lab coats, and got out our electric orb that makes your hair stand up.
After tooling around with this for about 5 minutes, we think we've got it solved. Answer "Money" to question 8, "Clubbing" to question 5, and "I'm flawless" to number 10. You'll be a Harvardian every time.
Check out a few screen shots after the jump. And to answer those hanging questions: Thorlo and Blanche.
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April 8th, 2009 at 5:38 pm
Well, it confirmed my Columbianess.
I wish it had snarky assessments of what it was about our personalities that matched each school. But by now I’m sure it’d be nothing more than the eight stereotypes we’re already used to. Columbia, intellectual and urban. Harvard, genius and socially crippled. Yale, Asian, better than Princeton and Columbia. Princeton, WASPy and poor people-eating. Brown, drug-using and navelgazing. Cornell, inferiority complex, hockey and suicide. Penn, identity crisis and Wharton-attending. Dartmouth, fratty and wildernessy.
Someday we will all learn that each of us are equivalently nerdy and talented, perfect as God made us. Except Penn. Those kids suck.
April 8th, 2009 at 7:05 pm
I think my favorite part about IvyGate comments is that most end with something like “we’re all pretty awesome… except _________. Nobody likes them.” Although this is almost universally done in jest, someone always gets sand in the vagina over it.
Yale comments are an exception. They’re too dumb to figure out endings. The other exception are Harvard comments. They’re too pretentious to do it in jest.
2-fer! Bring the hate!
April 8th, 2009 at 8:05 pm
I think you’re correct about the flavor of comments on here, terrifying lobster-crab. But I truly just said the above in jest. I’m not sure I can I muster up animus for a… school. Or its thousands of students. Easier to get angry about a person, a group that’s politically or ideologically opposed to you, or a subsection of a government.
Oh. re: ideological opposition: IvyGate, how have you not written about this? (http://www.brownalumnimagazine.com/features/crossing_the_god_divide_2217.html) A Brown student went “undercover” at Liberty University for a semester and wrote a book about his experience. I guess it’s difficult to find the snark in his article there, but it’s well-worth a read.
April 8th, 2009 at 8:27 pm
Columbia ‘09, I’m wondering that, too. Ivies produce tons of adorable stunt book hacks, so it warms the heart seeing a current undergraduate get one out. Maybe Ivy Gate bloggers would rather ingratiate themselves to these sorts of publishers than to call them out on their BS?
April 9th, 2009 at 10:19 pm
I’m a Yale, no doubt. Can’t believe I took this!
April 10th, 2009 at 8:38 pm
Hey! It said “Please remain in the Kudzu League. We have no room for you here.”
Anyone else get that?
April 12th, 2009 at 9:01 am
I got Princeton. I set my macbook on fire. Anyone got $1500 I can borrow?
April 13th, 2009 at 11:28 pm
I got Brown, and that’s where I’m going. So as far as I’m concerned…super accurate. :)
May 17th, 2009 at 9:20 am
i got brown, 3 times in a row, with varying answers.
i am going to penn.
therefore, it is not accurate.
September 20th, 2009 at 12:29 am
“I got Brown, and that’s where I’m going. So as far as I’m concerned…super accurate.”
Pre-froshes are so lame.