It's very nice, safe, and the people are friendly. Excellent school district too. Schenectady and Troy are both quaint and lively. Both filled with artisans. However, you do want to watch your step in these areas. Both are home to a lot of impoverished people. Clifton Park is nice, but it is farther away from Albany.
Best Answer: Time Magazine had an article a while back on The Catholic Ivy League. It is not a real league but merely their way of saying that the following Catholic colleges were considered the best in the nation: Notre Dame. Georgetown.
First realize the term Ivy League refers to a very specific set of 8 schools: Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Columbia, Penn, Cornell, Dartmouth, and Brown. These are all private schools, with the exception of Cornell which has both private and public components.