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.
The ivy league is an east coast football league - therefore no college which isn't on the east coast and/or doesn't waste their money on football is a member. There are plenty of fantastic schools that routinely outrank the ivies - like CalTech, MIT, Stanford, and Berkeley. Northwestern is another great school. It is not in the Ivy league, but it is a very good school. It is not Ivy League School, but it is Big Ten School. If you take rank seriously, it ranks on top of a couple of Ivy League school such as Brown and Cornell.