<p>To help dispell the ignorance, I post the following.</p>
<p>The Ivy League is an athletics association, founded in 1954, of eight American universities; it is named after the ivy plants traditionally covering their buildings. The Ivy League universities are often referred to by the abbreviation Ivies. The term “Ivy League” has connotations of academic excellence, as well as a certain amount of elitism. These schools are also sometimes affectionately referred to as the Ancient Eight, a strictly colloquial term.</p>
<p>All of the Ivy League universities share some general characteristics: They are among the most prestigious and selective universities in the U.S.; they consistently place close to the top of college and university rankings; they rank within the top one percent of the world’s universities in terms of financial endowment; they attract top-tier students and faculty (although many undergraduate classes are taught by people other than the distinguished faculty, such as graduate students - the extent of this practice varies greatly, for example, Brown University requires all its professors to teach undergraduates as part of its university-college model); and they have relatively small undergraduate populations, ranging between 4,100 for Dartmouth and 13,700 for Cornell. The Ivies are also all located in the Northeast region of the United States and are among the oldest universities in the countryall but Cornell University were founded during America’s colonial era.</p>
<p>The Ivy League universities are privately owned and controlled. Although many of them receive funding from the federal or state governments to pursue research, only Cornell has state-supported academic units, termed statutory colleges, that are an integral part of the university.</p>
<p>Members</p>
<p>The members of the Ivy League are, in alphabetical order:</p>
<p>Brown University, in Providence, Rhode Island, founded 1764 as Rhode Island College </p>
<p>Columbia University, in New York City, New York, founded 1754 as King’s College </p>
<p>Cornell University, in Ithaca, New York, founded 1865 </p>
<p>Dartmouth College, in Hanover, New Hampshire, founded 1769 </p>
<p>Harvard University, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, founded 1636 as the New College </p>
<p>University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, founded 1749 as the Academy of Philadelphia </p>
<p>Princeton University, in Princeton, New Jersey, founded in 1746 as the College of New Jersey </p>
<p>Yale University, in New Haven, Connecticut, founded 1701 as the Collegiate School </p>
<p><a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivy_league[/url]”>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivy_league</a></p>
<p>The main things to consider is that there are 8 schools in the league, it is first and foremost an athletic orginization, although it has since become associated with quality. Although the article goes on to include other schools (stanford, mit, caltech), these are not ivy schools. The ivy league consists of 8 schools, and although these schools may in many ways be comparable or surpass those 8 schools, it is, and probably will never be, an Ivy.</p>
<p>Baba, please be more coherent and make more timely and logical, purposeful points. A lot of those kids probably couldn’t get into stanford or liked usc or some other university more than stanford.</p>