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However, the name has much broader connotations. The Ivy League is associated with academic excellence, with many people in fiction and real life dreaming of [[Ivy League for Everyone|gaining admission to an Ivy League school]], as it is seen as a sign that one is truly the best of the best. (Admissions are highly selective, with admission rates being less than twenty percent.)
On the flip side, the Ivy League is also associated with social elitism. It is often subjected to a unique form of [[Strawman U]], one in which most of the students are [[Rich Bitch|snobbish, preppy]], [[Blue Blood|old-money]] [[White Anglo Saxon Protestant|WASPs]] who are already set for life, and are only going to college to acquire a veneer of respectability (for when they become [[Corrupt Corporate Executive|executives]] and investment bankers) and to get into their fathers' "old boys" networks and secret societies. Any student who isn't a member of this elite gets spit on and bossed around by them, partly because of the aforementioned elitism, and partly because most of the people who are academically gifted enough to get into an Ivy League school (without resorting to [[Nepotism]]) are nerds who had already been encountering this for [[Middle School|twelve]] [[High School|years]]. Such a school will typically be the setting of a [[Slobs Versus Snobs]] plot. Essentially, it is the American equivalent of [[Oxbridge]].
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It's also worth noting that the mystique of the Ivy League holds less sway in parts of the country that aren't the northeast. While people on the East Coast dream of going to Princeton or Harvard, Californians often dream of getting into Stanford or University of California-Berkeley instead, while Southerners have their sights set on Vanderbilt or Duke. Even people in the relatively close Upper Midwest often aim for Northwestern or the University of Chicago instead.
The renown of the Ivy League is such that the name "Ivy" is also used to describe other colleges with strong academic reputations. [
The eight Ivy League colleges, in the order they were founded:
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* '''Dartmouth College''' in Hanover, New Hampshire: established in 1769. Motto: Vox clamantis in deserto ("The voice of one crying in the wilderness").
* '''Cornell University''' in Ithaca, New York: established in 1865. Motto:I would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study.
(It's often been noted that Rutgers University, the State University of New Jersey, would also have been a member of the Ivy League had it been a private college and not a state school.)
Princeton, Harvard and Yale have traditionally been ranked as the top three schools in the United States for well over a century, although the precise ordering of the three varies from year to year. They are also considered among the top schools in the ''world'', as well.
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See also [[Ivy League for Everyone]].
* Harvard is the setting for the book and film ''[[Love Story]]''.
* Harvard Law school is the setting for the film ''[[The Paper Chase]]''.
* Quentin Compson, in [[William Faulkner]]'s ''[[The Sound and
* The early parts of ''[[The Social Network]]'', true to life, were set at Harvard. (Less true to life, these scenes were mostly filmed at [[California Doubling|Johns Hopkins University]] or on sets.)
* [[Buckaroo Banzai]] got his medical degree from Harvard.
* The title character of ''[[The Adventures of Brisco County Jr]]'', despite his [[Steampunk]]/[[The Western|Western]] adventures, was a Harvard-educated lawyer.
* Sara Sidle on ''[[CSI]]'' is a Harvard grad.
* In [[F. Scott Fitzgerald]]'s ''[[The Great Gatsby]]'', both Nick Carraway and Tom Buchanan are Yale men.
* [[Flash Gordon (
* Classic [[Dime Novel]] character [[Frank Merriwell]] is a Yale man.
* The later seasons of ''[[Gilmore Girls]]'' feature Rory applying to and then attending Yale.
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* Sideshow Bob of ''[[The Simpsons]]'' went to Yale.
* Troy the Janitor from ''[[Scrubs]]'' went to Yale.
* Dennis and Dee Reynolds of ''[[It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
* [[The Fresh Prince of Bel
** Will and Carton meet with an admissions counselor. Will impresses him by [[Awesomeness By Analysis|instantly solving a
** Carlton's conflicts are resolved when he successfully transfers into Princeton in the series finale.
* [[F. Scott Fitzgerald]]'s first novel, ''[[This Side Of Paradise]]'', centers around a Princeton student ([[Author Avatar|based on Fitzgerald himself]]), and spends a fair amount of time on the campus.
* The setup of ''[[Across the Universe (
* The title character of ''[[Doogie Howser, M.D.]]'' graduated from Princeton at age 10.
* In the episode "Flintstone of Princestone" of ''[[The Flintstones]]'', Fred briefly attends "Princestone University".
* President Charles Logan of ''[[
* According to ''[[Batman Begins]]'', Bruce Wayne went to Princeton but dropped out.
* Although ''[[Charles in Charge]]'' took place in New Brunswick, NJ, home of Rutgers University, Charles ended up a graduate student at Princeton (which is 20 minutes away down Route 27).
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* Dr. Manhattan of ''[[Watchmen]]'', in his pre-superpowered identity as John Osterman, attended Princeton for ten years, finally leaving with a Ph.D. in Physics in 1958.
* The character "Princeton" from ''[[Avenue Q]]''.
* In the [[Sam Raimi]] films, [[Spider
* [[Daredevil]] went to Columbia Law school.
* Brian from ''[[Family Guy]]'' attended to Brown, but dropped out one class short of graduating. In the episode "Brian Goes Back to College", he returns to complete his education (unsuccessfully).
* The much-loathed Microsoft Office Assistant "Clippy" has a biography that claims he has a degree in art-semiotics from Brown.
* Elliot from ''[[Scrubs]]'' attended Brown.
* Several characters from ''[[
* Michael Corleone of ''[[
* "Trapper John" MacIntyre of ''[[
* Meredith Grey of ''[[
* The fictional version of himself portrayed by [[Stephen Colbert]] on ''[[The Colbert Report]]'' attended Dartmouth. (The real Colbert did not.)
* Sideshow Mel of ''[[The Simpsons (
* The eponymous ''[[
* In ''The Call of Cthulhu'' by [[
** Miskatonic University, frequently seen or mentioned in the [[Cthulhu Mythos]], is modeled on Brown University.
** Harvard's Widener Library houses a copy of the ''Necronomicon''.
* In ''[[Decades of Darkness]]'', [[Word of God]] [
* According to the [[Standard Snippet|early 20th-century pop song]] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jTZDJBP_kw&feature=youtu.be "Freddy the Freshman"], the titular Freddy "got bounced from Harvard, Princeton, Yale and Brown".
* [[John Adams]] was the first Harvard grad to become president.
* Other Harvard alums who became President of the United States: John Adams and his son John Quincy Adams, Rutherford B. Hayes, George W. Bush (Harvard MBA), Barack Obama (Harvard Law School) and Presidential [[Badass]] [[Theodore Roosevelt]].
* [[Ralph Waldo Emerson]] attended Harvard.
* [[Natalie Portman]] is a Harvard alum. She parodied this in a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8e6-IeQ0aw famous] ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' Digital Short.
* [[Tommy Lee Jones]] went to Harvard; his roommate was [[Al Gore]].
** Erich Segal, author of ''[[Love Story]]'', also went to Harvard at the same time, and admitted years later to modelling its protagonist Oliver on a fusion of the two.
* Author [[William S. Burroughs]], Harvard 1936.
* Civil Rights leader W.E.B. Du Bois was Harvard 1890.
* [[Horatio Alger, Jr.]], Harvard 1852.
* [[Al Franken]], Harvard 1973.
* [[Jodie Foster]], Yale 1984.
* George H. W. Bush attended Yale
* George W. Bush attended Yale
* Legendary OSS/CIA spymaster [[James Jesus Angleton]] was a Yale man.
* [[Željko Ivanek]], class of 1978
==== University of Pennsylvania ====▼
* [[Benjamin Franklin]] was one of the university's founders
* [[Ezra Pound]] attended the University of Pennylvania.
* [[William Carlos Williams]] was a Penn graduate.
* [[F. Scott Fitzgerald]] attended Princeton.
* As did [[Jimmy Stewart]], [
** In fact, the last five were all at Princeton during the ''same four-year span'' between 1982 and 1985. <!-- As was troper and admin [[User:Looney Toons|Looney Toons]] (class of 1984), who had both Brooke Shields and Michelle Robinson in the outer reaches of his social circle. -->
* The Battle of Princeton (January 3, 1777) was an important rebel victory in [[The American Revolution]]. Damage from cannon balls can still be seen in Nassau Hall (Princeton's administration building).
* Princeton's Blair Hall and its famous arch appear at the beginning of the ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' short film "Prose and Cons" ("Kill my lan'lord, kill my lan'lord") from the 1980-81 season.
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* Bestselling author [[Jodi Picoult]] is Princeton '87.
* Playwright and Nobel Laureate Eugene O'Neill, Princeton Class of 1910.
* Musician/playwright Gene Lewin of the band [[
* [[Wentworth Miller]] Class of 1995.
* Presidents Grover Cleveland, Woodrow Wilson, and James Madison went to Princeton. Wilson was also the President of Princeton from 1902 to 1910.
* Ralph Nader, Princeton 1955.
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* Former pro basketball player and former US Senator Bill Bradley is Princeton Class of 1965.
* Syngman Rhee, first president of South Korea, Princeton 1910.
* Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Princeton 1976
==== Columbia ====▼
* ''[[WandaVision]]'' creator Jac Schaeffer, Class of 2000
* Author [[Lawrence Watt-Evans]] attended Princeton in the late 1970s, but never graduated.
* [[Alexander Hamilton]] attended Columbia when it was still called King's College.
* OSS founder William Joseph "Wild Bill" Donovan was a Columbia graduate.
* Rider Strong (Shawn Hunter on ''[[Boy Meets World]]'') went to Columbia.
* The personal papers of [[
* [[
* Composer/musician [[Wendy Carlos]], Brown 1962.
* Mary Chapin Carpenter, Brown 1981.
* Actress Laura Linney is Brown 1986.
* Actress Leelee Sobieski attended Brown but never graduated.
* [[Emma Watson]], class of 2014.
==== Dartmouth ====▼
* Theodore Giesel, aka [[Dr. Seuss]], went to Dartmouth, and in fact his book ''[[Green Eggs and Ham]]'' was inspired by an all-green breakfast served to freshmen during his time there.
* Thorne Smith, author of ''[[Topper]]'' and numerous other books, as well as the grandfather of actress [[Courtney Thorne Smith]], attended Dartmouth but dropped out in 1912.
* Anthropologist [[Joseph Campbell]], author of ''[[The Hero
* Frank Morgan, better known as the [[Wizard of Oz]], attended Cornell from 1908-1909, but dropped out.
* [[Bill Nye the Science Guy]] has both a Bachelor's and a Master's in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell, and was a professor there from 2001-2006.
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* [[Vladimir Nabokov]] also taught in Cornell in the fifties, whose students there includes [[Thomas Pynchon]] and [[Joanna Russ]].
* [[Kurt Vonnegut]] was a undergrad in Cornell until he joined the US army in 1943.
* John F. Kennedy enrolled at Princeton, but was forced to leave due to illness; despite resuming and completing his education at Harvard, he is still regarded as a member of his original Princeton class by the University and alumni.
* [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]] attended both Harvard University and Columbia Law School.
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