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Ivy League Education
For many parents, especially those living in the northeastern United States and elsewhere, the pinnacle of Education is in the Ivy League schools. Her dream and lifelong ambition is to send their children to these schools, in the belief that higher standards education and social connections available there will likely set up their offspring for life. They are impressed no end by the Ivy League, with its connotations of excellence academic and social reputation of elitism, and rightly so.
The term Ivy League can trace its roots to 1935, but the term really gained attention National from 1954 with the formation of the NCAA Division I athletic conference. With the shortage of professional sports at the same time, people became his rage favorite teams from universities and Ivy League schools were no exception. Today, the term Ivy League is no longer associated wholly with athletics but with the philosophy education as exhibited by the oldest schools in the country.
There are eight private institutions that make up the Ivy League: Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, Columbia University in New York, New York, Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts, University of Princeton, in the district and the town of Princeton Princeton, New Jersey, University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and the University Yale in New Haven, Connecticut.
There are some features common to members of the Ivy League, and they lend credence to the perception that they are exceptional education institutions. Ivy League schools consistently place among the top 20 at U.S. college News and university rankings, but are among one percent of academic institutions in the world in terms of funding, are a paradise for the country of first class students and teachers, and are perceived as socially elite.
All Ivy League institutions are endowed with financial resources of more than $ 2 billion each and are considered among the richest private universities in the United States. Harvard, with a budget of 25.5 billion U.S. dollars in 2005, is considered the wealthiest university in the United States and the world. Incidentally, it is also the oldest university in the country.
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