What are the requirements for the Ivy League schools?
they like averages of high A minus; but if you’re very special people get in with Cs; to be special different stand out; superior mental ability; ( many many people have high high grades ) well rounded; charity work ; doing good at hospitals helps; arts ability ; languages; business acumen/inventions? but dont fall into the ivy league worship bs; my generation was the largest in history and the competition was even much worse than today and i went to a very top public high school in a good area and they made us crazy in terms of which school we got into; i can assure you it doesnt matter; the good public colleges like CUNY ; U OF CALIFORNIA; U OF ILLINOIS ; U OF VIRGINIA are every bit as good as the ivy leagues schools; just with less mystique; also a bachelors degree is just a bachelors degree; the most important thing about a school is that it match you like picking a mate or a therapist or a hobby; forget about making the ivys; if you do great; if not it doesnt matter; your wonderful journey is about to begin; it is unfortunate that many adults the guidance counselors parents teachers live out neurotically through the kids and put a pressure on them that is totally unneccessary; there is very little in your life that is less important than doing your bachelors at any ivy; find a good school that is good for what YOU want and your personality ( the location is also important ; i went to NYU in new york city for example and if you like big cities some people dont and would love a country campus going to school in nyc or london or paris or toronto or sydney or tokyo can give you an experience that is beyond any school in terms of real learning )
How much higher are the academic standards at Ivy League schools versus good state universities?
There are sites where you can get good rough-order comparisons of collegese.g. The College Board However, here is quick (rough) comparisonHarvard accepts 6% of its applicants and an "average" SAT score would be 2260UC Berkeley and U Virginia are two very good public universities The acceptance rate is 16% and 29% respectivelyand the rough average SAT score is 2030 for both. NOTE: Harvard only accepts less than 1,700 freshmen each year, while those two public universities accept over 4,000 (or more) freshmen each year.And: Harvard as an elite private university will demand a lot more from an applicant's extracurricular activities. A place like Harvard and all the Ivy League colleges are considered a Reach college for Everyone who applies. First, find the correct two or three (that's it) Ivy League colleges that are a good match for You, and take chance by applying.No one is a good fit with all eight Ivy League colleges. All the best.
What is the standard for Ivy League schools?
You have to be the same degree of good at all of them – all eight Ivies, all 10 or 15 top liberal arts colleges, all of the elite research universities. It’s just as hard to get into Swarthmore, Yale, MIT, Stanford, Michigan, Middlebury, Barnard, West Point and Annapolis.That’s why there are 20 applicants for each seat at each school, and after they finish picking and choosing, they’ve pretty much absorbed the elite applicants in the country and perhaps the world; each school has different programs, different facilities and philosophies, and preferences for different kinds of students. At the end of the game, every student has a school, every school is full, and all the schools and all the students are superb.If you think you can slack off for a single Saturday afternoon because you’re “only” applying to Columbia, you’re kidding yourself.
How come Stanford isn't an Ivy League school?
Ivy League isn't a league made of best schools in USA. As we know those schools ARE the best(every year in top 15), but the principle is different. The moto of Ivy League is related to athletics: Student-Athletes need to excell outside classroom as much as inside of a classroom. Bassicaly, it meant the a student-athlete cannot join those schools without good academic background. This moto ensured that invested effort in any student would pay off. You should also know that the Ivy League was meant to be a league of North-Eastern schools, which Stanford for example isn't. Finally those 7 schools+Cornell (which is little younger) are way too older than Stanford (between 150 and 200 years). If you combine location and age it all goes against Stanford.
Is Trinity College considered an Ivy League standard college by people outside Ireland?
No. Yes. It's complicated. Full disclosure, I was [briefly] an undergraduate at Trinity. I'm using the wikipedia definition of Ivy League - somewhere that carries connotations of "academic excellence, selectivity in admissions, and social elitism". Firstly Trinity College Dublin comes 61st in the most recent QS World University rankings and is the only Irish third level institution in the top 100 [1]. For comparison, Yale and Harvard, both members of the Ivy League, are 8th and 2nd, respectively. Trinity is bracketed by the Korea Advanced Institute of Technology in 60th place and the University of Birmingham in 62nd, neither of which are Ivy League [equivalent]. So that is a pretty clear 'no'. However, amongst people abroad who have heard of it, Trinity does have a cachet, because it is a) beautiful b) old - far, far older than any New World institution and c) used to turn out the sort of graduates who did not go into "the trades" - i.e. it had snob value. This is a little unfair to what is actually a fine, stinking rich (so great facilities) and stunningly historic institution. It also does not hurt its reputation to have such alumni as Oscar Wilde, Nobel winner Ernest Walton, William Rowan Hamilton, the originator of Hamiltonian mechanics and Jonathan Swift to put on the prospectus...[2].Wilde once said only shallow people do not judge a book by its cover, so with that, have some college eye-candy: The main facade and entrance to the college, located smack-bang in Dublin's city centre. Image: Social Work & Social PolicyThe Quad. Image: www.jewishireland.org The Long Room. Also the inspiration for the Jedi Library from the Star Wars films. Seriously [3]. Image: sociable.co A modern bit (round the back). Image: Archiseek.com - Architecture News & Views from Ireland[1] Trinity rises up the college ranks despite austerity cuts - Independent.ie[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Trinity_College_Dublin_people[3] http://scyfilove.com/1948/visit-...
Why doesn't Telkom University try to have Ivy League standard?
What do you mean by Ivy League standards?Here is a bit more background on the 8 Ivy League universities… all of which are in the USA. The term has more to do with the longevity of these schools.There are many excellent academic institutions globally.
What is your idea about the Ivy League system?
8 universities decided to form an athletic league based on a common philosophy where academics comes first. This league made rules that eliminated all athletic scholarships and created a set of academic standards that all athletic teams must meet. Because of their common philosophy, these schools are all very strong academically, allowing them to attract the best and brightest students.There’s a similar league among 11 small liberal arts colleges called NESCAC. The schools in this league are informally known as “little Ivies”. The nickname is also often applied to a number of other excellent liberal arts colleges.
How do you handle snobby, elitist, ivy league types, who repress others?
I went to an ivy league school the other day, just to visit, check it out, see what it was like, and went to a couple of buildings, the library, a certain museum exhibit, and was shocked to find that many of the professors and what not, ppl that were a part of the school, seemed to be sooooooooo elitist, snobby, completely unavailale and cut off from the rest of the human population, so even if you dared to approach them, and make eye contact with them while they were talking amongst themselves, they gave you angry looking glares, like you're disrupting the conversation of a lifetime. That's ONLY by walking there. Then if you as much as apply for admission to these schools or choose to take a few classes there or what not, it's even more cut-throat in a sense. They seem to give you this aura of superiority, like they're god, and you're nothing, and try to stomp you out in a way like you're competition. It's just not very friendly. Sure, they're VERY intellectual some of them but they act like they're a special breed of human, and that just because you may not be as good enough, you don't even remotely deserve to be in their presence. I know this from talking to a few, and because I wasn't up to their ivy league standards...it was like...off with you. My personal motto is, improve yourself. I always strive to learn, grow, etc, and went to this particular school to be "inspired," but yet left feeling rejected and snobbed-out. Was it me in this case or was it them?
What is the best Ivy league School on Long Island?
Adelphi and Hofstra are not ivy league schools. 'Ivy League school' does not mean good school, or expensive school. It refers to the ivy league, an east coast football league consisting of 8 schools only (Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Cornell, Brown, Dartmouth, and UPenn). And while Adelphi and Hofstra are pretty good schools, they are not at the same level as the ivy league and other top schools, no matter how expensive they are. The only ivy nearby to Long Island is Columbia in NYC.