Just wondering....what makes a university or college an "Ivy League" school?  Thanks so much!!?
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An early college athletic league was formed by Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and one other (Columbia, I think).  The league had four teams.  The roman numeral for four is "IV".  The conference was commonly known as the IV league for a few years, but it soon expanded to include other schools, so the number-thing no longer fit.  Because some people had already mixed up the IV with the ivy vines growing on several of the campuses, the name mutated to "Ivy League" and has remained in that form to this day.
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Perfect grades, SAT scores, etc.... THEN, you have to add on the extras. Get involved, really involved. Don't just volunteer somewhere and log a few hours on a resume, become critical to an organization (and get a great letter of recommendation). Take college courses early, for fun and for the challenge of it. No fluff will be allowed... you really have to be the top, best, brightest, and most genuine thinker to even be considered. If you are not, don't waste your time applying, you will be just one of many wanna-bees. Yale is no joke.... you have to be at a level that scares most people... it is not like a purse to show your friends ("Hey, look, I go to Yale... isn't that neat!")!
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Here's the latest rating list.  Harvard, Stanford, and Wharton (Penn) usually top the list.  But there are many good schools.  Very few can get into Harvard.  (They even turned ME down!) \n\nBest of luck to you.
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Except for the occasional star who makes the NFL, the Ivy League schools do not produce great players.  If you are a starting player on your high school team, you probably have a shot of making an Ivy team.  You will have to work hard to stay on the team.  They do take themselves seriously, meaning practices all afternoon and staying in shape throughout the off-season.  Because Ivy League schools do not offer football scholarships, you will still have to figure out how to pay for school  You will also have to continue to make your grades in all your classes.  The attitudes of professors at Brown or Dartmouth toward football players is likely to be significantly less sympathetic than those of the professors at Arkansas, Ohio State or even USC.   While Tom Brady played for Michigan, the guy who owns the Patriots, Robert Kraft, played for Columbia.
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Hi, current college student here.\n\nI agree with matt's responses - they are mostly correct. However, he is missing a few important points. For one, the amount of financial aid that you qualify for is very important. This really also depends on the school's calculation policies, but you can get a general estimate from a site like "http://www.finaid.org/calculators/finaidestimate.phtml." Remember that this is strictly an estimate though.\n\nWhy is this important? Because you have to see how much financial aid a school gives (assuming that you qualify for a decent amount). Schools like Harvard are expensive, but they will cover 100% of your financial need. Other schools might be cheaper but unable to subsidize your education. I know that at Harvard (my school), there's rather generous financial aid - families with income under 60k don't have to pay anything, and under 80k barely pays - and it scales upward to some degree.\n\nAlso, there are a lot of great state universities - and you should look for these in the U.S. News and World Report "http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/rankindex_brief.php" (Just go out and get a magazine version). But these schools will only be a good value if they are in your home state.\n\nAlso, I wouldn't consider anything out of the top 10 a "bad school." For example, UC Berkeley is ranked 25 (#1 in public schools), but I would never say that it's a bad school (despite Harvard being #1 overall =P )\n\nGood luck!
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i am not exactly sure but there is probally some kind of formula.  Like class size, test scores, incidents stuff like that.  Also the amount of graduates that get jobs there is probbally a myriad of things that go into it.  A schools are probbally more Ivy league also   ie more money and prestigous
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Ivy League Schools:\n1. Harvard University (Cambridge, MA)\n2. Yale University (New Haven, CT)\n3. Princeton University (Princeton, NJ)\n4. Columbia University (New York, NY)\n5. Dartmouth College (Hanover, NH)\n6. Brown University (Providence, RI)\n7. University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PN)\n8. Cornell University (Ithaca, NY)\n\nNon-Ivy "Ivy Deans" Members:\n1. Stanford University (Stanford, CA) <--my school!!\n2. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA)\n3. University of Chicago (Chicago, IL)\n\n(The "Ivy Deans" is a consortium of academic deans from 11 elite schools: the eight Ivy League universities as well as Stanford, MIT and Chicago.)
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Depends on what you want to study.  Some schools have good reputations due to research, but turn out not to be good schools for students, as the people with reputations don't do much teaching.  Some schools have reputations that were made 4-5 years ago and the reputations are no longer valid.  Yes, the Ivy League schools have good reputations, as do many others.  There are enough universities that you should be able to find one that does a good job teaching in your area of concentration and is right for you.
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What is success? Is it attending an Ivy League University like Yale just because your father went there, even though you're a complete moron? Is it earning millions of dollars each year even though you're morally bankrupt? \n\nMake people really think about what it is to be successful, and how they should conduct themselves both personally and professionally in order to attain success.
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top college and easy access. huh....\nmy suggestion is about your merit for that college.\nnow a days all colleges and universities has become top because of multiple facilities they have adopted. take admission in any uk`s universities.
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They are all very prestigious and fairly good at what they do.  All are fairly well respected.\n\nMIT:  THE top of the hard mathlike sciences and most Eng (eg, Comp Sci, EE, ChemE, etc).  Has fairly good liberal arts in particular philosophy and linguistics with big names.  However, MIT has never been exclusive and has no athletic scholarships, legacies, etc and suffers in overall prestige because of that.\n\nHarvard:  THE top "old boy's school".  Historically has been very exclusive with mainly legacies, donors etc adding to the prestige mystique.  REALLY good for medicine, law, etc and strong in everthing else.  If you're going for science, though, go to MIT since most students cross register and take a few courses there anyway!  It  just down the road.\n\nPrinceton > Stanford in terms of prestige.  I can't think of anyting in particular where they top the other two, but they are fairly strong and ranked up there .\n\nIf you're looking for a general undergrad experience I would go for Stanford.  It may be the least prestigous but in terms of education, it offers the best depth and breadth so you're sure to get a solid foundation regardless of what you want.  \n\nIn order I would pick Stanford > Harvard > Princeton for college/undergrad.  MIT is not included because it may not offer the best breadth, but if you're into hard science and technology, none of them can really compete.  (If you had mentioned Caltech, that might have been a different story :P).
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Colleges care more about your academic achievements, rather than where you go to high school. After all, aren't all high schools, from the public ones to the parochial ones, suppose to be accredited by a qualified educational agency ?
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I can only answer parts of your question, but here goes:\n\nUndergraduate grades are one of the determining factors as to whether one is admitted to a graduate program (letters of recommendation, GRE scores, and application statements/essays are other factors).  However, grades also matter very much during graduate study.  For example, in many graduate programs, receiving a grade of C or lower can cause a student to lose their funding, or be dismissed from the program altogether.  \n\nI cannot speak to your question about the business world, but successful attainment of a position as a college professor also rests on several factors.  Each field of study has several universities or colleges which are known to have excellent graduate programs.  The universities that are highly regarded will vary by field.  (For example, it's not always the Ivy League institutions that are most highly regarded for their graduate programs in every area of scholarship. Professors and researchers all know precisely which programs are considered to be top tier ones in their own field, but may be clueless when it comes to other fields.)  When a committee is hiring a professor in a particular field, the prestige of each candidate's graduate program is certainly a factor.  An applicant with a Ph.D. from a mediocre program will not always be as competitive a candidate as an applicant with a Ph.D. from a top tier program.  However, there are even more factors to be weighed.  Has the candidate from a mediocre program published a major book, or otherwise distinguished him/herself in the field?  Is the candidate from the mediocre program a better scholar or teacher, and is there evidence of this?  (There are other factors, too, but I think I've written enough!)\n\nI hope this helps.
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Not an Ivy league, probably, but there are plenty of very respectable students that would take you. \n\nThere must be at least 200 - 300 good schools with business programs that you could check out. Go to the College room at your school guidance office, or to your local library and ask the librarian to help you find some reference sources on Colleges of Business. There are lots to choose from, and the college selection books will tell you a lot of facts so that you can make a good choice.
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Very true, Princeton has one of the nation's lowest acceptance rates. A firend of mine just was accepted with a 4.0 at a prestigious high school and an excellent SAT score which I do not recall but will not speculate on. But agreed, if you know someone who is very important you obviously are of value to the school and will have a higher liklihood of acceptance. Also, I recently read that the SAT score is now the most important "section" of a student's life they look at so I recomend something very near perfection.
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*&*&*&\nHere you are.  I hope it helps you.\n\nhttp://www.ivytech.edu/
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I don't think there is any one thing to do. Here are some things to do:\n\nGet very good grades in high school.\nGet high scores on the SAT or ACT.\nHave a well-rounded high school career--do some community service, participate in leadership activites, and participate in school organizations.\nEmphasize your talents and gifts in academic and/or social domains.\nWrite a well-crafted personal statement that explains who you are and why you would be a good fit for the college.\nGo visit the college and talk to the admissions officers about the school.\nIf you know someone who went to the ivy league schools that you want to apply to get them to recommend you.\n\nHope this helps.