30 Celebrities Who Were Ivy Leaguers
By
Lexi Pandell, Stacker News
On 2/4/21 at 6:30 PM EST
These days, college admissions are a coveted get for many students and their families (with some even going to criminal lengths to make it happen, as seen in the nationwide college admission scandal). Standing apart from the other thousands of colleges in the United States are the Ivy Leagues, which have been put on the highest pedestal of all. The name "ivy league" isn't just a metaphor: These universities boast greenery covered buildings that originated from ivy-planting sessions in the 1800s.
Today, the Ivy League is comprised of the eight private universities that make up a specific athletic conference in the Northeast. The group includes Brown University in Providence, R.I., Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Yale University in New Haven, Conn., Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., Princeton University in Princeton, N.J., Columbia University in New York City, and Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H.