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u/speak_data_to_power · 15 pointsr/SeattleWA

This came up once before, and didn't seem to have a source then either, so I wanted to get to the bottom of it now.

There isn't much on the internet about "public ivy" schools. As far as I can tell, a former Yale admissions officer by the name of Richard Moll wrote a book in 1985 that gave a half-dozen universities that name. This book is what is cited by sites like "Brand College Consulting" when you search for the term.

In 2001 Howard Greene wrote a book called The Public Ivies: America's Flagship Public Universities that included UW, but I can't find anything substantive about that.

More recently, a fellow named Dean Ravenscroft in England wrote his own list on his "University Review" blog. That post was picked up by "Ivy Select College Consulting" in March.

Unless I'm missing something, the term doesn't appear to have any sort of official designation or established system behind it.

UW is ranked #18 in public universities nationally by US News and World Report, and #56 overall.