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List of the Eight Ivy League Schools, Plus Quick Info About Them

Posted: Thursday, December 01, 2011

by Mogama
http://www.mogama.info

The Ivy League Schools are considered the best universities in the United States. All of the Ivy League Schools are private institutions located in the Northeast region of the United States. None of them is affiliated with any religious group. They are for the most part the oldest institutions of higher learning in America. All except Cornell was established during the colonial period of the United States.

The oldest and richest of the schools is Harvard University, with over $27 billion of financial endowment, making it the wealthiest school in the world.

The following table gives a quick glimpse of the institutions for one like me who, for a long time, knew little or nothing about the Ivy League Schools one of my friends enjoyed bragging on.

*Ivy League School*	*Founded*	*Location*	*2011 Tuition, Fees, Room, Board*	*Undergraduate Students*	*Contact;* *More Info*
Harvard University	1636	Cambridge, MA	$48,450	6,641	Click here
Yale University	1701	New Haven, CT	$52,700	5,279	Click here
Univ. of Pennsylvania	1740	Philadelphia, PA	$53,976	10,394	Click here
Princeton University	1746	Princeton, NJ	$49,069	5,220	Click here
Columbia University	1754	New York, NY	$53,876	7,859	Click here
Brown University	1764	Providence, RI	$52,234	6,318	Click here
Dartmouth College	1769	Hanover, NH	$52,275	4,248	Click here
Cornell University	1865	Ithaca, NY	$49,341	13,935	Click here

You or your child will need a Grade Point Average (GPA) of 3.75 to be admitted to one of these schools. Is reality setting in yet? But then again, who says that’s impossible? Go Princeton! (That’s my dream school, though I may be running short on time.)

Sources: wikipedia.org; admissionsconsultants.com. If you find any information in this post to be factually incorrect, post the correction in the comment box below the article, and I will edit the article to reflect the confirmed correction.

~mogama~

Mogama (Moses Garswa Matally) is a minister, Bible teacher, life skill coach, blogger, and author of Refugee Was My Name. Due to a civil war in Liberia, his native country, he fled to Sierra Leone, then to Ghana where he lived as a refugee, before migrating to the United States. Mogama holds a Bachelor of Theology and a Master of Divinity. He is the founding pastor of Church For All in Kentucky, where he lives with his wife and three children. Website www.mogama.info;email mogama@gmail.com.

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Top-level comments on this article: (3 total)

» left by Bruce Horst
168 days 17 hours ago.
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Interesting Mogama. My middle son is now attending Northeastern University, which is across the river from MIT and down the road from Harvard. He tells me his classmates joke about how their school is the detention pond of the Ivy League, since so many of them had an Ivy League school as their first choice, but failed to make the cut. (I doubt they would admit that publicly, though!)

The thing is, those schools which aren't quite Ivy League often have more to prove, so they work harder at helping their students succeed. That's exactly the kind of school I'd want my kids to go to.

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» left by Mogama 168 days 6 hours ago.
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I see how students at Ivy League schools could be pretty arrogant. The quality of education is probably little different between Ivy League and other fine universities, though brand-name thinking wants us to believe otherwise. ~mogama~

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» left by Steve Kovacs
168 days ago.
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Great topic! I never knew much about these schools or how much they cost to attend. Thanks fot the info! And by the way, you were a writer who's advice I followed years ago when I started writing on "SerachWarp". You had written an article on how to write well on this site and it helped me a great deal--thanks for that too.

Steve

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» left by Mogama 166 days 23 hours ago.
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Very encouraging to hear that, Steve. Thanks a ton-:)

~mogama~

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» left by Hilda Cang
167 days 14 hours ago.
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If I am not mistaken, we have some prominent leaders graduated from Harvard and Yale, the former State Ministers ...every year, I don't know how many Malaysian students can be qualified to study there.

The schools must be terrific !

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» left by Mogama 166 days 23 hours ago.
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Thanks for commenting, Hilda. Merry Christmas. ~mogama~

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