There are eight Ivy League schools that are each very different, but also all have some common denominators. The Ivy League schools are now coined as such based on their academic prowess, but the Ivy League began as an athletic conference in higher education. As early as 1933, the term ‘ivy league’ was used to describe the group of historic schools who had athletic teams of superior ability.

There are presently eight institutes of higher learning that comprise the group known as Ivy League schools. They are all private and presently hold no specific religious affiliations. The members are: Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, Columbia University in New York, New York, Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, Harvard University in Cambridge Massachusettes, Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey, Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut and The University of Pennsylvania located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Some of the characteristics common to the Ivy League schools are their consistent ranking amongst the nation’s best schools in US News & World Report, they attract the nations top-tiered students, and are in the top one percent of the world’s academic institutions from a financial capacity. They are also historic institutes of higher education with all of them being founded prior to the American Revolution, with the exception of Cornell, which was founded in 1865.

The term “Ivy League” is believed to have been derived from the ivy that grew up the sides of the historic buildings. Over the years, the campuses of the Ivy League schools have grown to encompass several hundred acres each, with the exception of Columbia, which owns and operates 82 acres. They are all privately owned and operated with financial endowments in the billions of dollars. Ivy League schools are very selective schools with current acceptance rates at 25% or less for all schools.

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