What is an Ivy League school?
                     WHAT IS 
AN IVY 
LEAGUE 
SCHOOL?
INTRODUCTION
• The Ivy League universities all have a strong 
academic reputation. As often happens, history 
plays a big role. Giving them a long track record 
that attracts the best students.
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What is The Ivy League? 
• Technically, the Ivy League is the sports 
conference for eight private universities in the 
north-east United States. 
• The universities all compete against each other 
across the full range of student athletic events.
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Visit to the Ivy League’s 
website
• A visit to the Ivy League’s website will reveal it 
contains lots of sports news, but not much about 
the academic side of college and university life; 
there is just a single page of admissions advice 
for athletes who are interested in playing for one 
of the teams.
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History
• The Ivy League was formed in 1954, but the 
term was in use by the 1930s. 
• Picking on a tradition of planting ivy that took 
place at many universities during the nineteenth 
century, sports writers used it to refer to the 
inter-college rivalry which existed between the 
historic colleges. 
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Which are the Ivy League 
universities?
• Harvard University (Massachusetts)
• Yale University (Connecticut)
• Princeton University (New Jersey)
• Columbia University (New York)
• Brown University (Rhode Island)
• Dartmouth College (New Hampshire)
• University of Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania)
• Cornell University (New York)
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Why are Ivy League universities 
so good?
• This select group of universities in the USA boast 
a great academic reputation and tradition, but 
they also have big endowments, ensuring 
continued investment; collectively they are said 
to control endowments worth nearly $150 
billion, and Harvard alone has more than $40 
billion.
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How big are Ivy League 
universities?
• However, despite the highly selective nature of 
Ivy League universities, some are among 
America’s biggest universities and thousands of 
students head to them every year.
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Admission process
• The admission process for these elite schools is 
highly competitive; you’ll need to achieve 
standards that are much higher than the ones at 
any average public university. For instance, the 
overall admission rates in 2020 were under 10%.
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