Hello, I know this may sound stupid but what exactly is an Ivy School anyway?

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Good day, Aquariel.

Ivy League schools or colleges are composed of the following US universities:

1. Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island;
2. Columbia University in New York, New York;
3. Cornell University in Ithaca, New York;
4. Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire;
5. Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts;
6. Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey;
7. University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and
8. Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.

These schools are difficult to enter into because of the great number of applicants. They are prestigious institutions because their students represent the top one percent of all students in the US.

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Hey, I know this may also sound trivial but the Ivy League was established in the 1940s by the presidents of the eight schools to promote intercollegiate football games. Today, the league is part of the National Collegiate Athletic Association, competing nationwide in other sports as well.

I'm such a football fan, as you may have guessed.

Oh, we're playing the Trivia Game, eh? Do you know why there's an "Ivy" in "Ivy League"? "Ivy" refers to the plants that climb all over many of the old campus buildings in each of the schools. It is said that when a sports columnist was sent to cover a football game between Columbia and Pennsylvania, he grumbled about "watching the ivy grow". Another reporter who overheard his comment dubbed all the schools collectively as the "Ivy League".

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Well, I know that these schools are prestigious, expensive and harder to get into, but what else are they? Do they really offer a better education? Is studying in these schools more demanding? Most importantly, do their graduates have an advantage in landing a better-paying job?

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Well, there are non-League schools that are just as prestigious, like Stanford University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (which explains why terms such as "little ivies" for small colleges and "public ivies" for prestigious public universities exist). Yeah, Ivy League graduates have that serious advantage in the job market. As for their quality of education, I can't really say.

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I see. Gee, thanks for the quick responses so far, people. Now, how about ranking the Ivy League schools?

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Ranking? Tall order. (stretches arms and fingers) Hmm, let's see, I would rank them according to the following order:

1. Harvard
2. Princeton
3. Yale
4. University of Pennsylvania
5. Columbia University
6. Dartmouth
7. Cornell
8. Brown

But that's just me. Here's a webpage that presents a ranking of Ivy League schools and even those outside of it. It's in 2005, though.

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Hi, everybody!

I'm new here. I'm glad a thread like this exists. Anyhow, I'd like to know exactly how many applicants of Ivy League schools are really even qualified?

Thank you very much.

Do I detect some sarcasm in there (hehehe)?

Anyway, I think that these applicants at least think they are qualified-- or they wouldn't put to risk that great an amount of money these schools require. Some applicants are probably just want to give it try, maybe just to be able to say to themselves "Well, at least I tried.". They may not have good GPA or SAT scores, but then they got the money to spend for even several attempts (hahaha).

Peace out.