Lithe, fluuuuuu-id, quick! Nice hands! Fine brain! (Three Ivy League offers.)
I wiki'ed Ivy League, you know, curious about places where most of us cannot go ;-)
". . . The conference name is also commonly used to refer to those eight schools as a group beyond the sports context.
[2] The eight institutions are
Brown,
Columbia,
Cornell,
Dartmouth,
Harvard,
Pennsylvania,
Princeton, and
Yale. . . .
"Seven of the eight schools were founded during the
colonial period.
Cornell was founded in 1865. Ivy League institutions account for seven of the nine
Colonial Colleges chartered before the
American Revolution; the other two are
Rutgers University and
College of William & Mary."
(Rutgers? Huh. Would not have guessed it, and the colonial/revolutionary era is one of my favorite reading subjects.)
"Ivy League schools . . . are ranked among the best universities worldwide by
U.S. News & World Report.
[4] All eight universities place in the top fifteen of the
U.S. News & World Report 2017
nation university rankings, including the top four schools and five of the top eight.
[5]"
(Depends on what Sterling's goals are, of course, and how big the stage on which he wishes to perform, but golly gee whiz, hard to pass up an Ivy. OTOH, I hope he does pass. After all, iSu is a member of the elite Association of American Universities, which includes seven of the eight Ivys. [Dartmouth is missing.])