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The [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivy_League:Ivy League|Ivy League]] is a group of eight old and well-regarded universities in the northeastern United States. Officially, the Ivy League is an athletic conference. Its members have a long history of participation in collegiate sports, and some of America's first sports rivalries were established at these eight schools. The Ivy League was officially established in 1954, although it had existed informally for decades prior.
 
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.)
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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. [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Ivies:Little Ivies|"Little Ivies"]] may refer to the "Little Three" of Amherst, Wesleyan and Williams, or to a set of small and selective liberal arts colleges (mostly in the NESCAC sporting conference). [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Ivy:Public Ivy|"Public Ivies"]] are [[American Educational System|public universities]] that are said to provide an Ivy League-quality education at an affordable price, while [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Ivy:Southern Ivy|"Southern Ivies"]] are [[Exactly What It Says On the Tin|exactly what they sound like]] -- in fact, there was talk in [[The Sixties]] of forming a "Magnolia Conference" of elite Southern universities that wanted to maintain big-ticket sports programs without cutting corners on academics, as they felt that their rivals were doing.
 
The eight Ivy League colleges, in the order they were founded:
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==== Princeton ====
* [[F Scott Fitzgerald]] attended Princeton.
* As did [[Jimmy Stewart]], [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Logan:Joshua Logan|Joshua Logan]], [[Jose Ferrer]], [[MASH|Wayne Rogers]], [[Suddenly Susan|Brooke Shields]], [[The X Files|David Duchovny]], [http://www.amazon.com Jeff Bezos], [[Lois and Clark|Dean Cain]], and [http://www.whitehouse.gov First Lady Michelle Obama].
** In fact, the last five were all at Princeton during the ''same four-year span'' between 1982 and 1985.
* 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).
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