What Actually Is The Ivy League?

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@NameExplain 10 ай бұрын

Did you go to an Ivy League university? If so what was your experience like? Even if you didn't then what uni did you go to if you went to one at all? I spent 3 months at the University of Portsmouth before dropping out to become a KZbinr, fingers crossed that was still the right choice for me lol.

@ArmenianBishop 10 ай бұрын

My nephew is studying for a PHD, at Dartmouth. As for myself, I graduated from UCSC.

@asahearts1 10 ай бұрын

I dropped out of community college in my second semester. 😅

@me0101001000 10 ай бұрын

I went to a so-called "Public Ivy" school for my undergraduate degree. I liked the program a lot, the people were nice, but I still think uni is too expensive in the US. But one thing that I liked about the school I went to over any Ivy League school is that there were far more people of Asian descent where I went (I'm Asian American), and the Ivy League schools are still, to put it bluntly, very very white.

@H8nji 10 ай бұрын

@@me0101001000 You racist against white people?

@davea6314 10 ай бұрын

I graduated from Cornell University and my dad graduated from Harvard University. Years after graduation, I came to the opinion that the reputation of an accredited university attended by a student should not be as important to a potential employer as what a student learned at that university. However, the university attended must be accredited and the student must have graduated if I was to consider hiring the person...

@sams3015 10 ай бұрын

Embarrassingly I learned about this from both the Gilmore Girls & Gossip Girl 😂

@matti706 10 ай бұрын

that's the only way to learn it

@New_Wave_Nancy 10 ай бұрын

New England technically comprises of Maine, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, Connecticut and Rhode Island. While New York abuts New England, we're not technically a part of it. (Not that this New Yorker would mind.)

@Lars3 10 ай бұрын

Came here to say the same thing. Only 1/2 the schools are in New England.

@Dea_Decay 10 ай бұрын

This is still so weird considering there are other old universities, older than some of the ones listed, that aren't part of the "Ivy League." I guess as ultimately its not even just age but that sports connection it makes sense, but it seems like the list could be expanded to other old and prestigious schools like William & Mary University.

@bonecanoe86 10 ай бұрын

I went to Princeton University. ...last week to walk around. I actually dropped out of a state school LOL.

@lp-xl9ld 10 ай бұрын

There was never any question but that I'd attend one of the Ivies when I was growing up. The original thought was Columbia, but once I saw Cornell, I knew that was going to be it. I got my BS in 1984 and I have no regrets whatsoever.

@davea6314 10 ай бұрын

I also graduated from Cornell.

@russ_garcia 10 ай бұрын

CORNELL. EVER HEARD OF IT.

@allanrichardson1468 10 ай бұрын

Tom Lehrer, a Harvard grad and satirical song writer, has a line in his parody song about the college experience (Bright College Days), referring to “ivy covered professors in ivy covered halls.”

@bigtub1101 9 ай бұрын

exactly what i thought when i saw the thumbnail

@mathieuleader8601 10 ай бұрын

Always makes me think of that daydream Lisa was having in the Simpsons where the President of Havard was shocked at Lisa getting a zero on her Wind & the Willows test so would pass her future C.V onto Brown

@zacharyliles8657 10 ай бұрын

Really enjoyed this one! I'm american so I knew about the athletic league, but I didn't know any of the stories about the origin of the name itself

@Bacopa68 10 ай бұрын

I noticed that Ivy wall has a little Virginia Creeper growing on it. They'd better kill it, or the creeper will kill half the ivy and cover the entire roof. It will also choke nearby trees to death. Creeper is harmless in the dense forests where it lives, it cannot get enough sun to kill everything. But in a human altered landscape, it will get out of control.

@MeMySkirtandI 10 ай бұрын

It should be noted that in the US a university's sports association says a lot about the school, more than just who they play games with. Division 1 schools are generally large state schools, who can offer students athletic scholarships. Therefore their student body is going to have a number of students who are more like professional athletes than actual students and going to class (the Big 10 for example). Meanwhile down at the other end, D3 schools are smaller and not allowed to offer athletic scholarships. Therefore their student body is more 'scholarly' and their sports are less interesting to watch. There are of course exceptions, but the Ivy League makes sense because all those schools focus more on academics and influence than well sports.

@MarcelGomesPan 9 ай бұрын

I have actually wondered about this. Thanks! 🇸🇪

@SteveFrench_420 10 ай бұрын

I've never understood why Benjamin Franklin's Univ of Penn is part of the Ivy League but Thomas Jefferson's University of Virginia isn't.

@KeyDash753 10 ай бұрын

Probably because Penn is private and UVa is public. That'll do a lot to influence how the school thinks of itself, and how others think of it.

@Sir_Dwarf 10 ай бұрын

Here is a fun one. Where does the Name yoghurt come from?

@jamespyle777 10 ай бұрын

The Association of American Universities which is at a healthy number of 69 showcases many of the colleges and university that have the highest degree of research institutions in the country and is the highest honor a college or university can attain.

@ericburton5163 9 ай бұрын

Yeah it's funny because the Ivy League always gets compared to the Russell Group, Imperial Universities, SKY, Group of Eight, etc., when really the AAU is the correct comparison to these universities. It's just that in the US we tend to group our universities by sports league (and I the Big Ten which used to require AAU membership to join is now reconsidering due to money money money).

@thewetzelsixx9009 10 ай бұрын

That Justin Wetzel guy in the list of Patrons sounds like a nerd 😏 Edited because I can't even insult myself correctly lol

@damenwhelan3236 10 ай бұрын

English ivy... that's why it was chosen to be used. It grows on old English buildings...

@agme8045 10 ай бұрын

I genuinely thought Stanford was an Ivy League. I always thought it was weird how it ended up being an ivy despite being in the west coast and probably being much ‘newer’

@Bacopa68 10 ай бұрын

Yeah, there are high status private universities that are not Ivies. William and Mary is older than most of the ivies, and there are the southern universities modeled on the Ivies like Vandy, Rice, Tulane, and others. I think Stanford is the only Ivy-like school on the west coast, though the public system of California does have excellent schools.

@EnigmaticLucas 10 ай бұрын

@@Bacopa68I’ve seen the term “Ivy Plus” used for elite non-Ivy schools like those

@devenscience8894 10 ай бұрын

I also thought that Stanford was considered Ivy League. Guess I learned something in this video.

@devinmes1868 9 ай бұрын

Carnegie Mellon University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology are also elite schools I thought were ivy. It's interesting how a term for sports, "ivy league", came synonymous with "elite school".

@agme8045 9 ай бұрын

@@devinmes1868 never heard of Carnegie, but the fact that MIT is very tech oriented (literally called institute of technology lol) made it very unlikely, at least for me, that it was an ivy.

@davea6314 10 ай бұрын

@vladkornienko7889 10 ай бұрын

Wait, I’ve always thought that Ivy League is a multidimensional union of Posion Ivys from DC 🤔🤔🤔

@toddgabweg Ай бұрын

My son is being recruited by all the Ivy league schools to play football. It is a hard sell since there are no athletic scholarships so we would have to pay pretty much to attend based on our family income. He has full scholarships offers from other schools (like schools in the Patriot League).

@Dezturbed 10 ай бұрын

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@darreljones8645 10 ай бұрын

Curious about the origin of the names of the Ivy League colleges themselves? A lot less interesting, alas. Aside from the University of Pennsylvania (named after the US state in which it is located, and whose government funds the school), most of them are named after someone who made a major early endowment (i.e., gave the school a boatload of money).

@KeyDash753 10 ай бұрын

Nitpick - Penn is private. The state provides funds to a number of universities, the most famous of which is Penn State University. But not Penn.

@rob379lqz 6 ай бұрын

Touching Ivy sap alone can cause contact or allergic contact dermatitis, which is a very itchy-and uncomfortable-rash. Contact with English ivy can also cause swelling and shortness of breath.

@originalhgc 10 ай бұрын

The association of these universities is not only about sports. For instance, the children of faculty of any one of the schools get half-off tuition at any of the other schools.

@robertwilloughby8050 10 ай бұрын

Well, I'm wishing and hoping for a look at Universities in Canada, because they've got ALOT of great alumni!

@mr.knightthedetective7435 10 ай бұрын

Whenever someone talks about Harvard or Yale I imagine pompous pricks and aholes amuck, courtesy of Family Guy

@georgedoty-williams2085 10 ай бұрын

I learned about it in Dead Poets Society

@kennethobrien6537 10 ай бұрын

Just going to point out that new jersey pennsylvania and New York are not considered new England. Also most of Connecticut doesn't consider themselves as new England either.

@joyce_keith 10 ай бұрын

In the US, "Ivy League" is often used casually to mean any top-level university. Many people do not know that "The Ivy League" is a specific (athletic) league of a specific set of schools. I myself did not know that until I started applying to colleges, and went to an Ivy League school (I went to Cornell).

@davea6314 10 ай бұрын

I also graduated from Cornell.

@devinmes1868 9 ай бұрын

How did you manage to afford it?

@benjaminkujawski 9 ай бұрын

As soon as you said it was cuz sports everything suddenly made sense

@riseuplights5017 10 ай бұрын

Ah, yes. Pedro Masolino Figulea hahahaha

@genethrowe8205 10 ай бұрын

There are also the seven sisters, which are the elite women’s colleges, many affiliated with the ivies.

@genethrowe8205 10 ай бұрын

They are Barnard college, Bryn mawr college, mount holyoke college, smith college, Wellesley college, vassar college, and Radcliffe college

@HalfEye79 10 ай бұрын

Despite of being a German, I never heard of the term TU9.

@esra_erimez 10 ай бұрын

What about "Bush League"?

@VincentPendley 10 ай бұрын

Many of the US presidents graduated from IVY League schools. Also, Notre Dame is sometimes considered part of the League because of it's age and prestige. It's in South Bend, Indiana.

@bootstrapbill98 7 ай бұрын

I've always thought of it as being similar to "Red Brick Unis" in the UK

@HayTatsuko 10 ай бұрын

The mere name of this group of educational institutions has always made me feel a bit itchy and twitchy, and maybe even a bit jivey.

@brianedwards7142 10 ай бұрын

Ironically, ivy destroys masonry over time.

@urielpolak9949 10 ай бұрын

I thought rowing

@chrisk5651 7 ай бұрын

Only half of the Ivy League is in New England. New York, New Jersey & Pennsylvania are NOT in New England. All the state east of New York are part of New England.

@zacharyliles8657 10 ай бұрын

There are more American universities that are considered "ivy league" caliber, but there's no official designation. Basically it just boils down to what school whoever youre talking to is trying to brag about lol Stanford University is probably the one I hear referenced most often, but U Chicago, Berkley, and even the University of Michigan I've heard referred to as the extended "ivy league"