Ivy League for Everyone: Difference between revisions

 

Don't feel bad if you've only heard of Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, since those are referenced in fiction [[Small Reference Pools|far more]] than the others. (They also happen to be the perennial "top three" schools in the United States, with only the order varying from year to year.) Columbia gets fewer mentions since NYU is the "go-to" institution to name-drop if you want your characters in The [[Big Applesauce]], while many of the others are surrounded by inner-city and Dartmouth is in the middle of nowhere, the nearest cities offering much off-campus nightlife<ref>Burlington, VT and Concord, NH</ref> being two hours' drive in opposite directions.

 

Some non-Ivy League schools can fall under this trope as well, due to their elite status and overuse in fiction. Examples include:

 

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== Anime and Manga ==

* From ''[[Pani Poni Dash!]]'', [[Child Prodigy]] Rebecca Miyamoto graduated from MIT at the age of ten, though in the manga she tells people she went to Columbia, simply because it's easier to pronounce than "Massachusetts."

** Brown has also eliminated loans for students living below a surprisingly high annual income, and eliminited tuition ''entirely'' for annual family incomes of below $60,000. It's worth noting that many selective schools such as the Ivies are desperate to increase their diversity—whether racial, geographical, or financial.

** However, no Ivy League school offers scholarships based on anything other than need, and none ever has. It is, in fact, a requirement of membership and one of the founding premises of the organization that no scholarships are offered. So every single time you see a character "win a scholarship from Harvard" the writer [[Did Not Do the Research]], as scholarships based on merit only come from alumni foundations, not the school itself.

** And both of Obama's nominees—Sotomayor and Kagan—got their bachelors' at Princeton.

** Obama himself went to Harvard Law School and was the first black <s>chief editor</s> President of the Harvard Law Review.