The Sunday NY Times Wedding Announcements: Penn 3.5, Harvard 12

Before this week, I thought Penn was supposed to be the social Ivy. Shouldn't we be the ones getting hitched at an alarming rate? We're outgoing, we're interesting, we know how to balance work and play... or at least play and play. But maybe all we are doing is playing, because our objective tally shows that regardless of Harvard's social reputation, it is the Ivy with the most mentions in the New York Times Wedding Announcement this week. The couple that deserves the most accolades is the Kleins, who together earned Harvard a whomping 5 points! They both received undergraduate degrees there + he received a MBA + she received both a law degree AND a MBA for a total that = 5 Harvard degrees between the two of them. Don't you just hate them a little? Or a lot.

Poor Penn received only 3.5 mentions. Newlyweds Jacquelyn Labowski and Philip Renton both received MBAs, Clare Putman earned her law degree, and a half point is awarded Kit Vallhonrat because his mama is the managing editor of the Penn libraries Web site and we love the library.

The other Ivies boast numbers more comprabable to Penn this week: Columbia - 4.5 (sorry, but Barnard can only claim a half point), Yale - 3, Cornell - 3, Brown - 2 (though we debated whether the Brown University/Trinity Rep Consortium deserves a full point) and Princeton - 2.

Dartmouth, though, is sad and lonely this week. Or is that every week? But that's Hanover for you.