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Ivy League
A collegiate sports conference that places academics first and athletics seconds, the Ivy League is the only Division I athletic conference that refuses to grant athletic scholarships. All schools also refuse to grant athletic scholarships, or any financial aid of any kind that isn't directly need-based.

People like to associate Ivy League with any extremely prestigious American university, but that is incorrect. Some schools, like Stanford, MIT, and Duke are academically on-par with schools in the Ivy League, but they are not Ivy League schools.

Some public schools brag that they are public ivy schools, referencing a book written years ago. It probably just means they have a misguided superiority complex.

The Ivy League consists of Harvard, University of Pennsylvania, Yale, Columbia, Brown, Dartmouth, and Princeton.
By Kelli
Ivy League
A place where all the little spoiled kids on long island go. Your dads a dentist, lawyer, in the mafia, works there, or is best friends with Noah. People who go there are obsessed with it and you probably hate them for it. They travel the world with cracked out coach bus drivers who consistently get into car accidents. The campers hate all of the counselors who work there. Ivy Leaguer's or .. IVYS .. is filled with alot of cliques and theres always drama. (sexy seven, nine noodleling night mares) are the main clique.

ivy league girl one - omg i got the cutest coach bus outfit for montreal
ivy league girl two- wow our counclers are so fattt
ivy league girl three- WOW THEY WONT LET US DO ANYRTHING WE SPEND 8000 DOLLARS FOR THIS FREAKING CAMP WE SHOULD GET WHAT WE WANT
ivy league girl four- "i wonder what the sexy seven is wearing tommorro"
ivy league boy - THIS CAMP SUCKS
By Peggie
Ivy League
The place your parents wanted you to go to, but even YOUR dumbass knew you wouldn't get in.

I went to an Ivy League, now I have a bachelors degree and over 100,000 in debt because I wasn't very poor or very rich!
By Julianna
Ivy League
A group of eight universities in the Northeastern United States that are regarded to be the best colleges in the country (or even the world). Coined by sports writer Caswell Adams in 1937 as a term for the then-powerful eastern football league, it originally included Army and Navy as well.

Since then, it is the aspiration of many high school students (and their parents) to get an "Ivy League Education"

Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Pennsylvania, Princeton, and Yale are the colleges of the Ivy League.
By Grace
Ivy League
Original origin comes from the plant 'Ivy', in which these plants usually tend to creep upon the walls of buildings. As ivy plants grow extensively for years, these buildings may still remain, giving these buildings a good reputation of their existence.

Universities such as Harvard and Yale are Ivy League because they have been in existence for a long period of time because the ivy plants that grow on the walls of their buildings signify of how long the buildings were there.
By Denna
Ivy League
Over a century ago, an interscholastic athletic league was formed by Harvard, Yale, Columbia and Princeton. It was officially known as the "Four League." The Roman numeral "IV" was often used instead of the word four and the term "IV League" came into use. When spoken, the IV was spelled out and sounded like "Ivy League." Brown, Dartmouth, Cornell and Pennsylvania were the major opponents of the IV league, and in the early 1900's were members of the league.

IV is pronounced Ivey
By Janaya
Ivy League
A group of eight of the supposed most prestigious schools in the United States.

An athletically superior conference a century ago that has faded into obscurity as state schools nation-wide have bolstered their athletic programs.

Similar to athletics, other schools are slowly catching up academically.

At present, the term "Ivy League" has a negative connotation, and insinuates old money snobbishness or antisocial behavior.

The applicant attended Brown University of the Ivy League, so naturally he got the job over the better-qualified UCONN grad.

Ted: "Man, I didn't get into Harvard. No Ivy League for me..."
Bill: "Who cares. Go to BU across the river, experience their diversity, and get a better education."

Will: "Want to go to the Princeton-Yale football game? Classic Ivy League matchup..."
Tommy: "Are you kidding? If I wanted to be bored to death by a three-to-nothing game I'd watch soccer on TV."

Francis: "I had a 4.0 GPA, was the student body president of my class, and hoped to go Ivy League, but I still didn't get into Columbia..."
Sean: "Obviously you didn't. Your last name isn't Kennedy."

The Unabomber earned his undergraduate degree from Harvard in 1962.

Jack: "Look at that sociopath over there talking to himself about philosophical dilemmas."
Jill: "I guess there's a reason why Cornell has the highest suicide rate in the nation..."
By Brianne
Ivy League
When a male gets poison ivy on his dick and then sexually penetrates him/her with his ivy dick

"Hey man did you fuck that girl yesterday"

"Yeah man, she is now in the ivy league; She will be itching for weeks"
By Teresita
Ivy League
Group of 8 northern institutions of higher learning, consisting of Princeton University and 7 community colleges.

"Dude, I got into Harvard!"
"I thought you said you got into the Ivy League?"
By Marjory
Ivy League
A University where spoiled rich kids, or losers who had no social life in high school what so ever attend. Ivy League schools have the sluttiest girls in the United States, they love having sex with dudes that go to State Universities because dudes that go to State Universities are cooler than the nerds at Ivy Leagues.

Sir Elton Newton: Hi there, I go to an Ivy League College.

Brad: Dude, I don't give a fuck.... *sips beer*

Sir Elton Newton: Hahaha, very amusing. What college do you attend my friend?

Brad: University of Texas....*sips beer*

Sir Elton Newton: Hahahah, I go to one of the most prestigious Universities in the land.

Brad: *sips beer* I don't give fuck.

Sir Elton Newton: Hahaha, I bet you wish you were me don't you?

*Brad punches the shit out of the Ivy League fag, then bangs his girlfriend*
By Tiphani