Ivy League

noun

a group of colleges and universities in the northeastern U.S., consisting of Yale, Harvard, Princeton, Columbia, Dartmouth, Cornell, the University of Pennsylvania, and Brown, having a reputation for high scholastic achievement and social prestige.

of, relating to, or characteristic of Ivy League colleges or their students and graduates.

Ivy League

1. the Ivy League a group of eight universities (Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth College, Harvard, Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania, and Yale) that have similar academic and social prestige in the US to Oxford and Cambridge in Britain
2. ( as modifier )
  an Ivy-League education

Ivy League

A group of eight old, distinguished colleges and universities in the East, known for their ivy-covered brick buildings. The members of the Ivy League are Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, Princeton, and Yale Universities; Dartmouth College; and the University of Pennsylvania.

First recorded in 1935–40

White, upper-middle-class, Ivy-League educated white men, however Great they are, are falling out of power.

In Confessions of an Ivy League Frat Boy, the self-induced, self-absorbed Greek tragedy of Andrew Lohse.

Ironically enough this madrassa is run mostly by Ivy League-educated Jews.

Dear White People takes place on the predominantly white campus of a fictional college with an Ivy League-leaning legacy.

The Ivy League and other top schools are producing no more than ‘excellent sheep,’ says William Deresiewicz.

He is a professor at an ivy league university—Cambridge, I think.

April 19, 2024tortuous

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