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Despite being considered amidst the near selective colleges in the United States, with admission rates from 6% to 16%, Ivy League schools show up ofttimes in fiction. In teen dramas, a master character (or two) will always become accepted into an Ivy League school. Wait this to become a key role of loftier school senior yr stress, whether the character is trying to go into a certain Ivy League school, or deciding between an Ivy League college far abroad from home and a local college that keeps the show in the same setting.

In a particularly extreme version of this trope, there volition be an "Ivy League or nothing!" mentality implying that if a grapheme doesn't become into an Ivy League school they might every bit well study with the hobo in the alley. Characters who become to Ivy League schools seldom talk over their coursework or major.

In the case that we're past the high schoolhouse setting, this information will commonly show up in a character's educational background. Usually this will be washed every bit a shorthand to show that a graphic symbol is either smart, ambitious, or filthy rich. The rule most non discussing coursework too holds at this stage.

This has all been popularized by Author Appeal — quite a few writers went to the Ivy Leagues, and bask name-dropping the establishment to show off how cool they are. Beyond that, it's merely manifestly convenient--why actually testify a person existence smart when you tin only say they came from the Ivies?

Depending on the setting this trope can still be plausible, commonly if it focuses on people whose career interests directly chronicle to their alma mater. A evidence virtually high-tier law firms, for instance, is justified in having an above-average Ivy quotient because Harvard and Yale have loftier-quality law schools. Withal, even in the nearly farthermost cases, any given environment volition have plenty of people who graduated from other schools for the simple reason of sheer numbers.

The eight Ivy League universities are:

• Brown Academy (Providence, Rhode Isle, founded 1764)
• Columbia University (New York City, founded 1754)
• Cornell University (Ithaca, New York, founded 1865)
• Dartmouth College (Hanover, New Hampshire, founded 1769)
• Harvard University (Cambridge, Massachusetts, founded 1636 and is the oldest college in the US)
• Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey, founded 1746)
• University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, founded 1740)
• Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut, founded 1701)

Don't feel bad if you've simply heard of Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, since those are referenced in fiction far more than the others. (They too happen to be the perennial "elevation three" schools in the United states, with only the society varying from year to twelvemonth.) Columbia gets fewer mentions since NYU is the "go-to" institution to name-drop if you want your characters in The Big Applesauce, while many of the others are surrounded by inner-urban center and Dartmouth is in the middle of nowhere, the nearest cities offering much off-campus nightlife^[1] being two hours' drive in reverse directions.

Some not-Ivy League schools tin can autumn nether this trope too, due to their elite status and overuse in fiction. Examples include:

• Rutgers Academy in New Brunswick, New Jersey. It is said that if Rutgers were non the State University of New Jersey information technology would have been in the Ivy League.
• Stanford University, another elite, prestigious school located in Palo Alto, California. Common in works set on the West Coast.
• MIT (The Massachusetts Institute of Technology) or Caltech (the California Institute of Technology). Nearly common with characters whose backgrounds are in math, scientific discipline, engineering, or programming.
• The Seven Sisters, a grouping of prestigious women's colleges.^[2] Historically, this was the equivalent of the Ivy League for women; in fact, many of them started as "sister schools" to Ivy League colleges dorsum when those schools only admitted men. Nowadays, having a character choose a Seven Sisters school is usually a way to show that she is a Granola Girl and/or Straw Feminist.
• The Juilliard School, a prestigious arts school in New York City with programs in music, theater and trip the light fantastic. If your Teen Drama includes an astonishing classical musician or the star of the school musical, they will ever go hither, even though the latter is a case of Did Not Practise the Inquiry; Juilliard does not have a musical theater program.
• The medical schoolhouse of The Johns Hopkins University, mutual for elite doctors or medical researchers (for example, Dr. Gregory House).^[three]
• The film schools of Academy of Southern California (USC) and New York University (NYU), two of the all-time in the state, for budding directors.
• The more prestigious Historically-Blackness Colleges, such as Spelman, Morehouse, and Howard, on shows with predominantly African-American casts.
• Georgetown University in Washington DC for Boob tube lawyers and politicians who don't get to Harvard or Yale.

A note before you add to this list: Being the best-known/most aristocracy in a particular subject field does not mean a schoolhouse fits this trope. They also need to be overused in media — i.e. when a fictional character is talented in that area, they almost e'er cease up going to that school. If that's not the example, it shouldn't exist here. For example, believe information technology or not, Washington University in St. Louis has a medical school that is every chip as selective and prestigious as those at Harvard and Johns Hopkins, but is not most as well known or likewise-represented in the media and thus does not belong here.

Why aren't any of these considered "Ivy League" schools, y'all wonder? The League is really an athletic briefing within the NCAA; the eight schools' sports teams compete primarily against each other in the playing flavor. The social connotations developed effectually this.

For the British equivalent, see Oxbridge. In Japanese works, the "Tôdai" or University Of Tokyo can fulfil this narrative role in a pinch. In Australian works, expect to see The Group Of Eight. For Taiwanese shows, Tai Da (National Taiwan University) is used in the same way. And in mainland Chinese works, expect to see the C9 League, especially Peking University and Tsinghua University.

Contrast California University.

Examples of Ivy League for Everyone include:

Anime and Manga

• From Pani Poni Nuance!, Kid Prodigy Rebecca Miyamoto graduated from MIT at the age of x, though in the manga she tells people she went to Columbia, simply because information technology's easier to pronounce than "Massachusetts."

Comic Books

• Matt Murdock of Daredevil fame holds a Doctorate of Police force from Columbia.
• In Watchmen, Dr. Jon Osterman/Doctor Manhattan attends Princeton University from 1948?1958, graduating with a Ph.D. in atomic physics.
• A version of this is in the comic Gold Digger: At one betoken, a discussion is made on how just about anybody in the area is a doctor, with multiple degrees, ridiculous accomplishments, etc. Ace, the Ace Pilot, is a bit bellyaching.
• Flash Gordon is identified in the commencement issue equally a "Yale graduate and world renowned polo player"

Motion-picture show

• In 21, MIT senior math major Ben Campbell is accepted into Harvard Medical School but cannot afford the $300,000 cost. Fifty-fifty though he has a high 44 MCAT score and a 4.0 GPA, Ben faces heavy competition for the prestigious Robinson Scholarship, which would requite him a total ride through medical school. He uses the story of the flick to impress Harvard officers and to stand out from the other well-qualified applicants.
  • True in Existent Life, the MIT Blackjack Team were from MIT and Harvard.
• In Across the Universe, Jude befriends Max Carrigan, a rebellious educatee at Princeton. Max and his friends' upper class and wealthy families pay for their schooling while they spend their fourth dimension drinking, smoking marijuana, and pulling pranks. Max's attendance at Princeton allows him to avert the draft of the Vietnam War. When he drops out though...
• Patrick Bateman of American Psycho went to Harvard University and Harvard Business organisation School. It's also mentioned that Paul Owen went to Yale.
• Linda and Andrew are Chocolate-brown alumni in the movie Anger Management. Jack Nicholson'southward graphic symbol Dr. Buddy Rydell went to Columbia University.
• Natalie Ann August, played past Natalie Portman in Anywhere But Here applies and is accustomed by Brown, despite the dismay of her mother, played by Susan Sarandon, over the altitude.
• The psychiatrist of Jack Nicholson'due south Melvin Udall mentions her son was accepted into Brown in As Proficient Equally It Gets.
• In Batman Begins, Alfred casually asks Bruce Wayne if he plans to return to Princeton later on the trial of his parents' murderer. Bruce tells him that he won't, adding that "I similar it fine. They just don't feel the same style." He drops out and goes to Cathay instead.
• In the Coen Brothers' Burn Subsequently Reading, Osborne Cox, played by John Malkovich, is a CIA analyst and Princeton class of 1973 graduate. In a scene at a fictional Princeton Club, he leads a fast-tempo rendition of Princeton'due south anthem, Old Nassau.
• In the movie A Cinderella Story, a major office of the storyline revolves around Sam and Austin's goal of getting into Princeton and studying writing. Of course, they go far.
• In Denizen Kane, the eponymous character is said to accept attended and been thrown out of Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Cornell.
• At the end of Coming Soon, Tricia Vessey's graphic symbol, Nell Kellner, gets accepted to Brown University when she reveals that her father had donated a large sum of money to the school.
• Tom Cruise's character Mitch McDeere in The Firm is a recent Harvard Police force graduate hired by Memphis constabulary house that represents organized crime.
• In The Girl Side by side Door, Eli Brooks is mentioned every bit having been accustomed to Princeton
• In The Godfather, main grapheme Michael Corleone, wishing to avoid the family business, attends Dartmouth College. He later re-enrolls at Dartmouth subsequently fighting in the Pacific Theatre of Globe War II, where he meets his futurity wife, Kay Adams.
• In Hamlet 2, the main grapheme, a drama teacher, assumes a Latino pupil is a gangster. In actuality, the student had gained early access to Brown.
• Alan Jensen, played past Adrian Grenier, is the point baby-sit of the Harvard basketball game team in Harvard Man.
• In the stoner moving picture How High, two underachieving pot smokers, Silas (Method Man) and Jamal (Redman), uses a magic weed to go perfect scores on their THC exams (Testing for Higher Credentials, every bit opposed to Saturday) and to receive admission into Harvard University.
• In the 2008 version of The Incredible Hulk film, Betty Ross and Bruce Banner are Harvard graduates.
• In Iron Man, Tony Stark asks Christine Everhart, south Vanity Fair columnist who questions him about his weapons industry and accuses his company of killing people, if she attended Berkeley. She tells him she actually attended Brown.
  • Tony himself is said to have graduated summa cum laude from MIT, despite that school not granting Latin honors.
• Million Ryan'south character, Catherine Boyd, is a mathematics doctoral candidate at Princeton University in the Romantic Comedy I.Q.
• The eponymous character of the flick Kissing Jessica Stein graduated from Brown.
• In The Terminal of the Mohicans, Hawkeye says he attended Reverend Wheelock's school. This is presumably Dartmouth College, originally founded as a school to train Native Americans every bit missionaries.
• In Leatherheads, Carter Rutherford, played by John Krasinski, is a star Princeton quarterback.
• The entire story of Legally Blonde is about a blonde'due south quest to get into and be successful at Harvard Law.
• The 1970 motion picture Dearest Story, written by Harvard alumnus Erich Segal, is a romantic drama most a rich Harvard pre-law, hockey actor, played by Ryan O'Neal, and a brilliant Radcliffe musicology scholarship pupil, played by Ali MacGraw. Segal also taught Greek and Latin literature at Harvard Academy, Yale University and Princeton University.
• In Mars Attacks (Film), President James Dale, played past Jack Nicholson, is an alumnus of Princeton University.
• The chief characters of My All-time Friend's Nuptials, played by Julia Roberts and Dermot Mulroney, became friends and fabricated their wedlock pact when they were students at Brownish.
• Norah tells Nick in Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist that she was accustomed into Dark-brown University.
• The three main leads of Ninja Cheerleaders, Courtney, April and Monica gets accustomed to Brown and attends the school at the end of the flick.
• Jane Weston, played past Amy Smart, gets accepted to Brown Academy and attends the schoolhouse at the end of Outside Providence.
• The 1973 film version of The Paper Chase is an extremely faithful accommodation of the novel, telling the story of Hart's beginning yr at Harvard Police force School, and his experiences with Professor Charles Kingsfield, the brilliant, demanding contracts teacher whom he both idolizes and finds incredibly intimidating.
• In Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement, Princess Mia is referred to as a graduate of Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
• Brittany Snow's grapheme, Donna Keppel, protagonist of the 2008 moving picture Prom Dark, was accepted to Brown, just has doubts about leaving her boyfriend behind.
• Happens at the terminate of Risky Business. In this instance, though, non because the main character Joel Goodson is smart but because the Princeton admissions officer finds the ability to throw massive pimp parties to be a trait worthy of Princeton.
• Soul Homo, a 1986 comedy film, is virtually a man who undergoes racial transformation with pills so that he can authorize for an African-American-only scholarship at Harvard Law Schoolhouse.
• In Spanglish, Cristina Moreno applies to Princeton University in the beginning of the picture show, telling the story of her babyhood in her college essay.
• During a brief commutation in Sphere, it's revealed that three of the master characters received their doctorates at Grand.I.T., and at early ages to boot.
• Peter Parker is a educatee at Columbia University in Spider-Homo 2.
• In Stay Alive, the lead female person character, Abigail, tells her friends that she got into Princeton, simply later admits that she lied.
• Main character John resorts to crime in social club to pay for his niece's Harvard education in Stealing Harvard. John made a videotape many years ago, on which he promised to pay for Noreen'south college tuition if she worked difficult and was accepted into a university.
• Nora Clark in Footstep Up has been accepted to Brown Academy, merely wants to pursue her passion for dancing instead.
• Lucy Whitman, the brains of the operation in teen comedy/heist flick Sugar & Spice aspires of going to Harvard.
• Evan and Fogell of Superbad are virtually to get-go college at Dartmouth College.
• In The Talented Mr. Ripley, Dickie Greenleaf, played by Jude Constabulary, is a graduate of Princeton. Title character Tom Ripley pretends he is a Princeton alumnus.
• In ~In that location'southward Something About Mary~, Cameron Diaz's Mary attended Princeton University. Her ex-swain "Woogie" also received a scholarship from Princeton.
• The title graphic symbol of The Thomas Crown Affair attended Dartmouth.
• Sam Witwicky of Transformers goes to Princeton. The 2009 moving picture shows him during his freshman year at college. Somewhat justified by the fact that, on Transformers Earth, Princeton is pretty much a party school.
• Bill Wentz, U.S. Navy radioman in the moving picture U-571 studied German at Brown.
• Jonathan "Mox" Moxon, played by James Van Der Beek, the main character of Varsity Blues, receives acceptance to Brown. His coach blackmails him to play football by threatening to ruin his transcript.
• Nick Mercer, the male escort hired past Kat Ellis to be her date to her sister'due south wedding in The Wedding Date, graduated from Brownish with a caste in Comparative Literature.
• In Where the Boys Are, Merritt'south beloved interest Ryder Smith is a student at Brown University. Melanie is as well involved with a boy from Yale.
• The protagonist of With Honors, Montgomery 'Monty' Kessler, as played by Brendan Fraser, is a smart simply contemptuous boyfriend who got into Harvard without any money ties. He is fix to graduate as a authorities pupil with honors if he can put the finishing touches on his senior thesis.
• In Orange Canton, the main character fights similar hell to go to Stanford, merely ultimately decides to stay most his habitation and go to the local state higher, which he considers a big step down. This, naturally, ignores the fact that Los Angeles is home to several world-class universities of its own, including peculiarly the state schools.
• Used in Accepted, where information technology's a plot point that one of the main characters emphatically did not get into Yale.
• Averted in Ballot. In simply virtually any other movie a character as intelligent and ambitious as Tracy would be trying to get into an Ivy League school, but her goal is Georgetown because of its very strong political science program and access to regime internships. It also subverts the usual standards of this trope in that when Tracy actually gets to Georgetown, she discovers that far from being an intellectual utopia she all the same doesn't accept much in mutual with her less ambitious classmates. Fortunately, the academic programs are still equally every bit strong every bit she thought.
• Johnny Rico of Starship Troopers is told by his father that he's going to go to Harvard. Since Johnny is repeatedly shown to exist a dim bulb, it would appear that the trope proper noun has come up truthful. Mayhap Justified in that Johnny's family is wealthy and presumably could buy him in, and that in the fascist Federation, liberal arts degrees from Harvard wouldn't carry the same status.
• High School Musical sends 1 character to Stanford and another to Yale. It also sends 2 characters to Juilliard on a musical theater scholarship, despite the fact that Juilliard has no musical theater programs. Kelsi, i of the scholarship recipients, goes at that place for composition, despite the fact that in Existent Life, Juilliard's composition programme is focused on classical music, not musicals - she probably wouldn't have even gotten in, much less chosen information technology over a more MT-focused school like NYU.
• In She's All That, Zach has been accepted to Dartmouth, Yale and Harvard.
• In The Peacemaker , Col. Devoe and his commandos are interrogating a bomb-maker who is currently hanging off a span.

Devoe: Do you speaking English? Bomb-maker: I went to Harvard! Gooooooo Blood-red!

• In the flick version of Up in the Air, Natalie is a Cornell graduate.

Literature

• Subverted hard in Goad by Laurie Halse Anderson, when the principal character thinks she falls under this trope, but doesn't go far.
• The main graphic symbol of American Psycho, Patrick Bateman, tells the detective Donald Kimball that he attended Harvard University and Harvard Business School.
• In An American Wife, a Roman à Clef near President George W. Bush and Laura Bush-league past Curtis Sittenfeld, master character Charlie Blackwell is a Princeton alumnus. I section of the volume describes the couple attention a Princeton reunion in great detail.
• The Grade, Erich Segal's 6th novel, is about the Harvard Form of 1958, and particularly refers to five fictional members of this class: Andrew Eliot, Jason Gilbert, George Keller, Theodore Lambros, and Daniel Rossi.
• Dan Dark-brown's lead grapheme Robert Langdon in Angels and Demons, The Da Vinci Code, and The Lost Symbol is a professor of Religious Iconology and Symbology at Harvard University. He also graduated from Princeton University, where he played water polo.
• The chief character in the novel version of The Devil Wears Prada, Andrea Sachs, is a recent graduate from Brown University.
• Some other book by Erich Segal, Doctors, is about Barney Livingston and Laura Castellano of the Harvard medical form of 1962.
• Marina Thwaite, Danielle Minkoff and Julian Clarke, characters from Claire Messud's 2006 novel The Emperor'due south Children, were all friends at Brown University.
• Nathaniel Auerbach Clay, the protagonist of Geoffrey Wolff'southward coming-of-age story The Concluding Gild, is a fictional member of the Princeton Class of 1960. Wolff was an actual fellow member of this grade, and he wrote The Last Guild as homage to F. Scott Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise and The Great Gatsby.
• In the novel Good in Bed by Jennifer Weiner, protagonist Cannie Shapiro is a Princeton alumna.
• Serena's older brother, Eric van der Woodsen, attends Brown University in Gossip Girl.
• In the novel In Her Shoes by Jennifer Weiner, protagonist Rose Feller is a Princeton graduate. Her younger sis Maggie camps out in a Princeton library. Jennifer Weiner is an alumna of Princeton'southward Form of 1991.
• Subverted by Edwin O'Connor's novel The Last Hurrah, in which the Harvard-educated characters are clearly singled out as exceptions to the general rule. Given that the story is set among Irish gaelic-Americans in the 1950s, this is Truth in Television- until at to the lowest degree the early on '70s, most Irish gaelic-American Catholics in the Northeast were expected to go to schools like Boston College or Holy Cross; those few who went to Harvard or Yale instead were ambitious, upwards-mobile types who wanted to "brand it" as "Americans". One famous case is typical.
• In the Left Behind series, Cameron "Buck" Williams graduated from Princeton. Chloe was attending Stanford.
• In the scientific discipline-fiction novel Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen by H. Beam Piper, Calvin Morrison was a theology student at Princeton before dropping out to join the U.Southward. Ground forces and fight in the Korean War.
  • Not strictly an case, equally the Princeton Theological Seminary is a separate institution unaffiliated with Princeton University.
• In the second half of Stephen Fry'due south Making History, Michael Young attends Princeton.
• Written past John Jay Osborn, Jr., a 1970 graduate of Harvard Law School, The Paper Hunt is almost Hart and his first year every bit a law student at Harvard.
• Former CIA-agent Wyman Ford, a fictional character in many of Douglas Preston'south novels, is a Harvard alumnus.
• The author of the 1994 autobiography Prozac Nation, Elizabeth Wurtzel, graduated from Harvard and Yale Constabulary School.
• Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist is partly set at Princeton. Changez and Erica are fictional members of the Princeton Grade of 2001. Hamid was an actual member of the Princeton Class of 1993.
• The Rule of Four is attack the Princeton University and the neighboring Princeton Theological Seminary. The protagonists are Princeton students.
• The Second Happiest Day by John Phillips depicts Harvard Academy during World State of war II.
• This Side of Paradise, F. Scott Fitzgerald's literary debut, is a loosely autobiographical story of his time every bit a student at Princeton. Protagonist Amory Blaine attends Princeton.
  • For an changed example, nigh of the rich characters in The Great Gatsby are described with Ivy League degrees (Tom played football for Yale, for example), only they are not respectable in the least.
• In the 3rd Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants book, when the Four-Girl Ensemble have their final summer together before college, it's noted that although Bridget is the "sloppiest student" of the four, she got into Brown. The other iii terminate upwards going to the Rhode Island School of Blueprint, NYU's pic school, and Williams Higher, not really Ivy League but all comparably prestigious.
• Quentin in William Faulkner's The Audio and The Fury attends Harvard. We encounter him every bit a freshman at the higher in the 2d function of the novel.
• The grapheme Robert Cohn attended Princeton in Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises.
• In The Talented Mr. Ripley, Dickie Greenleaf, played by Jude Law, is a graduate of Princeton. Championship character Tom Ripley pretends he is a Princeton alumnus.
• In Twilight, Bella Swan and Edward Cullen programme to go to Dartmouth as an excuse for Bella to leave her begetter. It is heavily implied that the Cullens bribed the school to procure her admission.
• Rae Spellman of Spellman Files has had issues with her grades, paying attention, doing her homework, being too obsessed with her social life or detective work or well, pretty much anything during the unabridged series, and she'due south non into school extracurricular activities. How on world did she become into Yale, even after she told them of her new police record?
• The narrator of Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle is a Cornell alumnus, and another major character flunked out of the academy.
• Talked virtually in the Private novel series past Kate Brian. Justified considering the titular private school is an elite boarding schoolhouse for the richest of the rich.
• Scott, the protagonist of The Chronoliths, and his wife Janice met while attending to Cornell, and Ray, another character comes from MIT.
  • Justified in the case of Ray considering he works in a government funded project, so probably they would just want to get their money'due south worth.
• In The Areas of My Expertise, John Hodgman devotes several passages and a whole chapter to Yale's "true" history and plans for One World Authorities. (Hodgman and occasional sidekick Jonathan Coulton are Yale alumni.)
• Unlike the later moving-picture show mentioned in a higher place, the original novel of Legally Blonde has Elle attending Stanford Academy.
• The three original Ghostbusters are faculty at Columbia University, until their unorthodox research focus and lack of results leads to them being let go.
• In The disreputable history of Frankie Landau-Banks, she aspires to attend Ivy League. Her sister goes to Berkeley and her boyfriend and his friends are going to Harvard next twelvemonth. Justified, every bit it takes place on an elite school.
• Zimmerman's Algorithm has the rogue scientist, Julia Zimmerman, enter an statement with her parents virtually which university to go to. The parents want her to become to Harvard, but the Kid Prodigy is more interested in computer science.

Live Action TV

• The Princeton episode of 8 Simple Rules embodied this trope. Bridget was the brainless ane on the show ("Ivory League"), but to her family unit, all that stood between her and a full-ride athletic scholarship to Princeton was her beingness ineligible to play in the lawn tennis match the scout was attending (the actual D grade itself that fabricated her ineligible didn't concern them). The worst part was that her sister, a good student, was interested in Ivy League schools, yet never noticed that Bridget couldn't "just swing her lawn tennis dissonance" and get into Princeton, as the cadre tenet of the very first Ivy Group Agreement was that "an applicant'due south ability to play on a team would not influence admissions decisions".
• Twenty Four'southward Beak Buchanan obtained his English degree from Brown Academy.
  • President Charles Logan graduated from Princeton University.
  • Audrey Raines, Jack Bauer's lover and Inter-Agency Liaison in the U.S. Department of Defense, has a degree in public policy from Brown.
• xxx Rock's Jack Donaghy attended Princeton University as an undergraduate. This is once used for comedic result when Jack tells Kenneth he doesn't take bedbugs because he went to Princeton.
  • Also, Twofer attended Harvard. (As did many a television comedy writer in Real Life.)
• The title character of Ally McBeal attended Harvard Constabulary School.
• General Michael Holden and Claudia Joy of Army Wives met while they were students at Harvard.
• The title character of Becker likes to boast that he got his degree from Harvard - which actually means that somewhere, sometime, something went horribly wrong for him.
• In The Beverly Hillbillies, Mrs. Drysdale's son Sonny mentions attention Princeton and Harvard and Yale. Pennants of the schools hang on his wall.
• In Bones, Dr. Saroyan gets her adopted girl into Columbia backside her back when said daughter decides to follow her boyfriend to a tiny college in Maine.
• Justified in Buffy the Vampire Slayer with Willow'southward acceptance into Harvard, Yale, Oxford, etc, as she is consistently portrayed equally intelligent. In the end, she remains in town and settles for UC Sunnydale to help Buffy in her fight against evil.
  • Subverted when Willow is wooed by Wesleyan University. While a great schoolhouse, it'south not an Ivy — information technology'due south merely Joss Whedon's alma mater.
  • Cordelia gets accepted into several of the schools on this list, despite existence the Blastoff Bitch and The Cheerleader, considering she does well on standardized testing. She tells Wesley in Angel that she was in the summit 10% of her grade.
  • Buffy herself got into Northwestern, as equally prestigious every bit many of the schools here.
• In Charles in Charge, the main grapheme gets accepted equally a graduate pupil to Princeton.
• Chuck was thrown out of Stanford for cheating not really, and he got his caste eventually. Vivian Macarthur Volkoff was groomed to take over her begetter's villainous organization after studying at the London School of Economics.
• Dartmouth College is the alma mater of the fictional host of The Colbert Report; the real Colbert graduated from Northwestern University.
• In Commander In Primary, former Communications Directors and electric current Press Secretary Kelly Ludlow, played by Ever Carradine, graduated from Princeton.
• In Customs, Jeff Winger goes to Greendale Community College after the State Bar found out that his bachelor's degree from Columbia was really from Colombia.
• On The Cosby Bear witness, eldest daughter Sondra Huxtable attended Princeton, and she met her futurity hubby Elvin Tibideaux there.
• Criminal Minds: Special Agent Emily Prentiss went to Brownish, equally is revealed in her starting time episode. Justified in-universe equally she'due south not only extremely intelligent (speaking several languages) but the girl of a U.s. Ambassador.
  • Reid went to either MIT or Cal Tech, depending on the episode you're watching. Garcia went to Caltech, and fans happily debate whether they would have attended at the same time.
• Sam Arsenault, guest villain on Damages, sings Danny Boy at a cocktail political party and tells the guests he sang it with the Jabberwocks when he was an undergraduate student at Brown. The actor, James Naughton, was a member of the Jabberwocks and graduated from Brown in 1967 in Real Life.
• In the season four finale of Drastic Housewives, Susan's daughter Julie Mayer is accepted to Princeton and prepares to leave dwelling house.
• On Doogie Howser, M.D., main character Douglas Howser, boy genius, graduated from Princeton at the young age of ten.
• On Eureka, Zoe goes off to Harvard at the end of the third season.
  • Nearly every character aside from Sheriff Carter and Jo have a degree from the Ivy League or Oxbridge, but this is actually Justified given the premise.
• In Even Stevens, Louis and Ren's mother, Eileen Stevens, is an alumna of Dark-brown University.
• In Everwood, Amy Abbott is accepted to Princeton. She chooses to defer her first semester at Princeton so that she tin take intendance of her mother while she recovers from her cancer.
• In Family Matters, Laura Winslow is accepted to Harvard merely ends up attending the cheaper local college Illinois Occidental University (IOU).
• In Family Ties, Alex P. Keaton spends the showtime two seasons preparing to nourish Princeton. While visiting for an on-campus interview, his sis Mallory has an emotional crunch. Ultimately, Alex chooses to tend to her rather than complete his interview, thus destroying his take a chance of attending Princeton.
• Dr. Frasier Crane of Frasier and Thanks earned his undergraduate degree from Harvard College. He too graduated from Harvard Medical Schoolhouse, where he obtained both his 1000.D. and Ph.D. in psychiatry.
  • And Niles went to Yale.
• In the Fresh Prince of Bel Air, Carlton Banks' dream school is Princeton Academy and he eventually attends the university at the finish of the series. His father, Phillip, attended Princeton on scholarship, and went to Harvard Constabulary School subsequently.
  • There's at least one Mention of Carlton wishing to attend Yale. Princeton only becomes his goal/dream subsequently Philip informs him that'due south where he's going.
• Friday Night Lights subverts this. Getting a scholarship for any college is what nigh of the players aspire for in order to get ahead in life. Schools from all over the land will offer players a spot on their team and Ivy League schools don't offering sports scholarships. Julie and Landry, both portrayed as hard working students and smart, don't go to Ivy League schools.
• Thurston Howell, 3 of Gilligan's Island is a stereotypical WASP and a graduate of Harvard University.
• Gilmore Girls. Through the get-go half of the serial, Rory'southward ultimate goal is to get into Harvard. When she gets into all of her schools, including Harvard and Yale, she chooses Yale in order to stay closer to abode.
  • Paris Geller also gets into Yale, merely gets rejected from her life-long goal of Harvard.
• Kurt and Rachel on Glee focus all of their energies in the third season on getting accepted at the fictional New York Academy of the Dramatic Arts ("NYADA"). They originally wanted to go to Julliard before being told information technology doesn't have a musical theater program. This storyline is related to the scrapped idea of creating a Spin-Off where they pursue their dreams in New York.
  • Glee had a variant on this with the storyline near about the Ohio State recruiter, Cooter Menkins, coming to McKinley to cheque out the members of the football team, and he was simply interested in Shane. Finn acted like losing this shot meant he'd lost all chance of a football scholarship. The idea that he might get a football scholarship to a less competitive programme is never entertained.
  • A more direct example is Quinn. Afterwards realizing she might have a life after high school afterwards all, she reveals that she plans on applying to Yale and was later accepted, without even because any colleges in Ohio (such as Example Western Reserve if she wants something prestigious), where she could theoretically maintain a relationship with her girl.
• Gossip Girl is a case where the trope is justified, as the characters go to the sorts of aristocracy New York individual schools which are known to exist Ivy feeders:
  • Blair Waldorf considers the holy trinity among Ivy Leagues Schools to be Harvard, Princeton and Yale. She later refers to Princeton as a "trade school."
  • Nate, Serena and Blair all go into Yale University. Despite not wanting to attend Yale and also being a lackluster pupil, Nate gets accustomed due to his grandad's influence. Serena gets accustomed for her socialite condition. Yale later on gets revokes Blair's acceptance for her manipulation of a teacher.
  • Nate Archibald goes to Columbia. His father, Howie Archibald, is an alumnus of Dartmouth.
  • Serena gets accepted to Brown University, only defers her enrollment.
  • Serena'southward mother attended Brown University. Her begetter went to Columbia University.
• Meredith Grey is frequently seen in t-shirts of her alma mater, Dartmouth College, in Gray'south Anatomy. Shonda Rhimes, creator of the show, is an alumna of Dartmouth College, and often references the college in her scripts.
• Carol Seaver of Growing Pains attends Columbia.
• Notably averted on House - although the hospital the evidence is gear up in is the fictional Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital, and exterior shots are actually of the Frist Campus Centre, there is no endeavour to connect the setting to Princeton University, which doesn't have a med school.
• In How I Met Your Mother, Marshall Eriksen is a Law student at Columbia.
  • Ted also becomes a professor of architecture at the end of season four. An especially Egregious example, as the bear witness depicts becoming a Columbia professor equally a fallback for someone who tin can't manage to hold a job equally an architect or become a building built, whereas in Real Life, you can't get a professorship at an Ivy League until you're already prominent in your field.
    • It's pretty clear that Ted didn't earn this task; Tony, who is from a wealthy family, used his influenced to buy Ted the job considering he felt bad for Stella leaving Ted at the alter for Tony. It isn't implied that beingness a professor is a fallback for everyone, merely that Ted considers it a sign that his career has peaked and he has failed as an architect.
  • Though this trope may be subverted partially, every bit it'south implied (if we can deduce from the name of the residence hall Marshall and Ted lived in) that Ted and Marshall went to Wesleyan University for undergrad, which is the alma mater of the show's creators.
    • At this point, it has been made explicit. I know they did a little animation to start a college-flashback or something where a yearbook was opened that said "Wesleyan University" on it. The characters might accept actually used the schoolhouse's name at some point, but maybe not.
• Dennis and Dee of It'due south E'er Sunny in Philadelphia both attended Academy of Pennsylvania. Dennis graduated. Dee did not.
• On The Killing, Councilman Richmond mentions that he met his late wife his sophomore twelvemonth at Dartmouth.
• Sean Alvarez, a honest stock broker and murder victim on an episode of Police and Order went to Brown.
• Dr. Jack Shephard of Lost is an alumnus of Columbia.
• Striking Korean romantic drama Beloved Story in Harvard is about two Due south Korean first-year Harvard Police force School students and their romantic pursuit of a Korean student in her tertiary year at Harvard Medical School.
• Bette Porter of The 50 Discussion got her caste in Art History at Yale. She also was a graduate student in that location. Her Ivy League educational activity is supposed to showcase her intelligence, bulldoze, and affluent groundwork.
• Upperclass WASP-y Pete Campbell of Mad Men went to Dartmouth College.
  • The episode "My Old Kentucky Abode," reveals that Paul Kinsey graduated from Princeton in 1955 and sang in the acapella grouping, the Princeton Tigertones.
  • Ken Cosgrove attended Columbia University.
• Major Charles Emerson Winchester III of Mash graduated from Harvard College in 1939, where he lettered in Coiffure and Polo. He also received his medical caste from Harvard Medical School in 1943.
  • In i episode, a company to the Swamp asks Charles if he went to Yale. He immediately snaps, "HARVARD!" before regaining his composure and reiterating, "...Harvard."
  • Trapper John McIntyre is a Dartmouth alum, at least in the original novel and film.
• Ben Matlock, lead character of Matlock, worked for nine years earlier attention Harvard Law School, and therefore was significantly older than his law school classmates. He graduated from Harvard Law in 1967.
• In Nip Tuck, Julia McNamara's mother, Dr. Erica Noughton, graduated from Columbia with a Ph.D. in clinical psychology.
  • Sean also got accepted into Harvard Medical School, just the admission was rescinded when it was revealed that he failed a class because of cheating acquired by Christian.
• On Numb3rs, mathematical genius Charlie Eppes attended Princeton at age 13 for his undergraduate studies. He graduated when he was sixteen.
  • Larry Fleinhardt also went to Princeton and graduated when he was xix.
• Summer Roberts from The OC gets into Brown, despite non beingness characterized equally a nerd.
  • Seth Cohen, The Smart Guy, however, doesn't go far, even though Dark-brown was his dream school. He does go into RISD though (which itself carries Ivy League-level prestige for arts students), and so the couple gets to stay close to each other.
• In The Part Andy Bernard constantly mentions his education at Cornell University and his participation in the acapella grouping, Hither Comes Treble.
  • Which doesn't actually exist, although we Cornellians do accept an all-girls a cappella group called Nothing But Treble.
  • In the episode "Task Fair," Jim brings Andy forth golfing with a potential customer because the client is an alumnus of Dartmouth.
  • In a deleted scene Andy claims to have "sang" his mode into the school after he was await-listed, and in another deleted scene it is mentioned that his father donated a building which is presumably how Andy even got onto the wait-listing in the starting time place.
  • Dwight considers attending Cornell because of its agricultural program (and probably to accept away Andy'southward main reward over him) and gains an interview. It is notable that because of lower contest and state funding, Cornell's Higher of Agronomical and Life Science which Dwight presumably applied to, while selective, is significantly easier to get into and then the other colleges at Cornell and has the reputation as a "backdoor" into the school, particularly if yous grew upwardly on a farm.
  • Its a subversion of how the trope is normally played as Andy seems to be the only character with an Ivy League background still is i of the prove'southward ditzier characters. But then, the show likes idiots with subconscious depths of competence.
• In Oz, Tobias Beecher attended Harvard Law.
• Besides the original novel and subsequent picture, The Paper Hunt was also made into a telly series. The show is about first year Harvard laws student Hart and his experiences with the intimidating yet bright contracts Professor Charles Kingsfield.
• In Privileged, Joanna Garcia'due south character is a Yale alum, and has been hired to get her employer'due south 2 daughters into Knuckles.
• Jessie Spano from Saved by the Bell goes to Columbia.
  • Zack Morris gets accepted into Yale, despite poor grades or a lack of academic interest, all because he scored high on the Saturday.
• Elliot Reid in Scrubs revealed that she was in a sorority at Dark-brown University in the episode "My Turf War".
• Matt Camden and Sarah Glass, from 7th Heaven attend Columbia Medical together.
• Miranda Hobbes of Sex and the City got her law caste from Harvard. In one episode, she hides her educated background and pretends to be a flight attendant in order to go a date during a speed dating session because men are threatened by smart women.
• 2 characters - Thomas and Pandora - become to Harvard at the end of series four of Skins, under highly implausible circumstances. Admittedly this trope crosses over with Small Reference Pools to rightpondians.
• Tony Soprano's daughter, Meadow, is an undergraduate educatee at Columbia in The Sopranos.
  • Interestingly, she wanted to go to Stanford until Tony intervened.
• Mayor McDaniels of S Park graduated from Princeton University.
• Dan Rydell in Sports Night is a Dartmouth alumnus, a subject that is mentioned several times.
• On Studio 60 on the Dusk Strip, another testify written by Aaron Sorkin, Jordan (the new, unusually young head of the network) is a graduate of Yale Constabulary School. In order to brand it plausible that her character had fourth dimension to go to law school and go a network head past her early-to-mid 30s, it was revealed that she was hired equally the head of a major record label immediately upon graduating Yale Police force — even though there was naught in her resume that would authorize her for such a position. She wasn't the only graphic symbol with a Yale degree, either. We were supposed to believe that Simon, one of the sketch comedy actors, attended Yale Drama School.
• On Supernatural, Sam Winchester was attending Stanford Academy on a full scholarship before the demon Azazel interfered.
• In Weeds, Silas Botwin, the son of the main character, dates Megan, who is accustomed to Princeton.
• In The West Wing, Abbey Bartlet, wife of President Josiah Barlet and First Lady of the United States, received her M.D. from Harvard Medical Schoolhouse. (Bartlet himself chose Notre Dame over any Ivy League school, because until he met Abbey, he'd been thinking about becoming a priest, and his loyalty to the school comes up repeatedly. He also went to the London School of Economics, which plays into his background every bit a Nobel-prize winning economist.)
  • Sam (see below for his educational bonafides) reacts angrily when Ainsley (who is largely playing devil's advocate for an anti-Ivy League position advocated by many Republicans) refers to Bartlet's Ivy League instruction. First, Notre Dame isn't in the Ivy League and second, why shouldn't we encourage kids to strive for an teaching at America'south best universities? Ainsley agrees, every bit Sam knows she would.
  • Amy Gardner, women'due south rights activist and later the First Lady Abbey Bartlet'due south Chief of Staff, tells Abbey that she got her smart mouth at "Chocolate-brown, and and so Yale Law Schoolhouse."
  • Cliff Calley, Senate Majority Counsel, is an alumnus of Chocolate-brown and Harvard.
  • Deputy White Firm Communications Manager Sam Seaborn graduated magna cum laude from Princeton Academy. He makes repeated references to his alma mater, especially in the earlier seasons, indicating a certain pride in his attendance there. "Princeton" is his Surreptitious Service code name, and he mentions being the recording secretary of the Princeton Gilbert and Sullivan Society. His constabulary degree is from Duke, and in one episode he recruits a Duke Law classmate to run in a Congressional ballot.
  • Ainsley Hayes went to Harvard. And Smith College, a bastion of liberal feminism, which comes up when she goes back to argue there regarding women's rights.
  • Josh Lyman went to Harvard and Yale, and he wants yous to know that.
  • Characters who didn't go to Ivy League schools went to similarly prestigious ones like Berkeley, Georgetown and Stanford. The exceptions are Toby, who went to City Higher in New York, and Donna, who dropped out of the Academy of Wisconsin.
• In What I Like Most You Valerie Tyler attended Columbia. Holly applies to Columbia as well.
  • Henry Gibson, Holly's boyfriend, attended Princeton.
• In Will and Grace, Will Truman and Grace Adler met they were students at Columbia University.
• Jaye Tyler, main character of Wonderfalls, is a recent Brown Academy graduate with a philosophy degree and holds a dead-end job as a sales clerk at a Niagara Falls souvenir shop.
• Special Agent Pete Lattimer from Warehouse xiii regularly wears his Dartmouth football shirt indicating he may be an alumnus.
• FBI Special Amanuensis Monica Reyes in The X-Files studied sociology and mythology at Brown University.
• On Friends, Ross becomes a college professor at (where else?) NYU, a school that in reality would NEVER put upwardly with the kinds of things he does (randomly changing grades, giving lectures about coming upwards with the thought for Jurassic Park first, etc.). Besides, in real life, the procedure of becoming a college professor is much more rigorous and exhausting than how it was portrayed on this show.
  • Plus, about of the school's students are depicted equally slackers. Existence that NYU has very strict access requirements, this is pretty unrealistic.

Music

• The singer character of the "Weird Al" Yankovic song "Skipper Dan" graduated valedictorian at Juillard before falling on hard times as the eponymous Disneyland cast member.

Theater

• Played with in David Ives's Certain Thing, a 1-deed premised on two people being able to change aspects of each other by ringing a bell. Upon hearing that the male lead went to a less than prestigious college, she rings the bell until he says he went to Harvard.
• In Hire, the ambitious, straitlaced girlfriend of Maureen, Joanne, is a public involvement lawyer who received her caste from Harvard Constabulary School.
  • The stage evidence elaborates a little more on where Joanne falls in this trope as her parents have a lot of connections — her mom is nearly to become a diplomat and they are hanging out with a Senator over the holidays.
    • It'southward also mentioned in "Tango: Maureen" that she went to Miss Porter's, a very selective all-daughter boarding school in New England.
• In the musical Due south Pacific, Lieutenant Joe Cable attended Princeton.
• In the Heights Nina attends Stanford.
• In 1776, as in real life, John Adams went to Harvard. Slightly played with as Adams stating this during a congressional debate only evokes derisitory laughter and results in his opponent Thomas Jefferson dryly countering that he attended William & Mary - at which the other delegates applaud. ^[iv]

Video Games

• Gordon Freeman from Half-Life earned a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from MIT, and Eli Vance has a doctorate from Harvard. Issac Kleiner worked as a professor for MIT, and so he presumably received his doctorate at that place.
  • Freeman earned his Ph.D earlier he turned 27! Pretty impressive, I must say.

Webcomics

• Emily in Misfile has two years of her life wiped out past the eponymous filing error, including an credence to Harvard. She struggles to do information technology all once more, taking tests she'due south already passed, touring campuses she'southward already seen, and having her education-obsessed Female parent hound her for two more years.

Western Animation

• Brian Griffin of Family Guy dropped out of Brown one class curt of graduating. He re-enrolls and fails in the episode "Brian Goes Dorsum to College".
• Mission Hill — Kevin spends an entire episode trying to "crack" the supposed hole-and-corner code in the SAT's believing that but a perfect score can get him into Princeton.
• Quite a few characters in The Simpsons accept gone to Ivy League:
  • Mr. Burns is a Yale alum, as part of his general "erstwhile money" characterization.
  • Sideshow Bob is also an alumnus of Yale, and is dismissive of his brother Cecil'due south history at Princeton ("clown higher" as far as he'due south concerned).
  • Snake Jailbird also attended Princeton, only took a year off, presumably never to return.
  • Lisa fervently hopes to go to an Ivy League School when she reaches higher historic period, and not only any Ivy League school, either. She has a mini-freakout at the idea that she might accept to settle for Brown. Of course, there's nothing wrong with Dark-brown — after all, Otto virtually got tenure there.
  • In an episode where the whole family unit is arrested, Lisa worries that she'll never get into an Ivy League college now. Cue Bart mockingly singing "Yous're going to Staaanford! Y'all're going to Staaanford!"

"I've had JUST Well-nigh ENOUGH of your Vassar-bashing, young lady!"

• • Sideshow Mel is an alumnus of Cornell.
  • Lionel Hutz claims to have graduated from Princeton, although Princeton has never had a law school.
    • Given Hutz's abilities equally a lawyer, that'southward probably the joke.
  • Barney Gumble was Harvard bound until Homer introduced him to beer the night earlier he took his SATs.
• Brown University is referenced on Futurama by the same-named institution in the ruins of Old New York, where sewer mutants learn how to maintain the pipes for surface dwellers.
• Rocky and Bullwinkle i ups the Ivies by introducing the ultra-prestigious Double Dome University, where having degrees from Harvard, Columbia and Caltech is just skillful enough to make janitor.
• Subverted on Daria--the title character applies to Bromwell, unsaid to be an alternate version of Yale, but doesn't get in despite her excellent grades; her fellow does, in large part considering he has a family legacy. She goes through a version of the "Ivy League or nil" version of this trope herself before her mother helps her realize that her second choice college is also a very fine school.
  • Too Played With regarding Jodie--she does go accepted into Crestmore (perchance a Harvard analogue, since it's alumni are "literally running this country") but would rather get to Turner, a historically black higher that her father and grandmother both graduated from. Her parents eventually allow this, though she says she may still transfer to Crestmore afterward a twelvemonth or two.

Real Life

• If you happen to be an E Declension-dwelling American of the right age and background, you likely know someone who wants to be or has been accepted into an Ivy League school. Many high schoolhouse (or even middle school) students bust their donkey to endeavor and get accustomed with varying results. There are articles well-nigh this phenomenon.
• 31% of American Presidents attended Ivy League schools, and every bit you become farther downward the Federal hierarchy the numbers actually increase slightly. Although this is justified in that people who tend to go Presidents also tend to take Important Connections.
  • This probably peaked in 2004, when opposing candidates John Kerry and George Westward. Bush-league were non just both Yale alums, they were both members of the same exclusive secret society while there: The Skull and Bones. In response to comments that the campaign looked similar a form war, one reporter quipped: "Yeah, Yale Class of '66 vs. Class of '68."
• Until the 1960s they were but for rich people who went to the correct feeder schools and now near anyone has the opportunity (as long as they are smart plenty and special enough to stand out from all the other smart people applying for the aforementioned spot). Fortunately, you lot no longer accept to be rich, cheers to financial aid — as long as you lot don't mind a mountain of student loan debt after graduation.
  • Princeton eliminated student loans in 2001 and at present does all its fiscal aid through repayment-free grants.
  • Harvard (not certain virtually the other Ivies) gives out large amounts of need-based help; if you are poor plenty it covers tuition completely. Combined with grants and scholarships many can go in that location without paying a dime.
  • Dark-brown has also eliminated loans for students living below a surprisingly loftier annual income, and eliminited tuition entirely for annual family incomes of below $60,000. Information technology's worth noting that many selective schools such as the Ivies are drastic to increase their diversity — whether racial, geographical, or financial.
  • Notwithstanding, no Ivy League schoolhouse offers scholarships based on anything other than need, and none ever has. It is, in fact, a requirement of membership and one of the founding bounds of the arrangement that no scholarships are offered. So every single time you see a character "win a scholarship from Harvard" the writer Did Not Practice the Inquiry, as scholarships based on merit but come from alumni foundations, not the school itself.
• If nosotros're counting law schools, the Usa Supreme Courtroom'southward made upward entirely of Harvard and Yale alums.
  • And both of Obama'due south nominees — Sotomayor and Kagan — got their bachelors' at Princeton.
  • Obama himself went to Harvard Law Schoolhouse and was the get-go black principal editor President of the Harvard Law Review.
  • And Michelle Obama (nee Robinson) is Princeton class of 1984.
• Some East Coast prep schools send their graduates to Ivies en masse.
• Ivy Leaguers are not represented very ofttimes in professional sports^[5] Despite this, the belatedly-2000's Buffalo Bills had a General Manager from Harvard, a head omnibus from Yale and a backup quarterback from Harvard. (Incidentally, the quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick is now starter.)
  • Jason Garrett, the new head coach of the Dallas Cowboys, is a former Princeton Tigers QB who also played at Columbia.
  • This is why it was such a big deal in the media when Cornell'due south basketball team actually advanced into the NCAA Basketball Tournament (aka March Madness) Sweetness Sixteen in 2010.

1. ↑ Burlington, VT and Agree, NH
2. ↑ Includes Barnard, Bryn Mawr, Mt. Holyoke, Radcliffe, Smith, Vassar and Wellesley. Currently down to just five "sisters," since Radcliffe (then Harvard'southward women's college) ceased to be after Harvard started admitting women, and Vassar became co-ed — but the old name stuck due to Added Alliterative Appeal.
3. ↑ Despite popular misconception, JHU is not just a medical school, nevertheless, its association exclusively with medicine in the media ways that the proper noun-dropping of JHU in any other field would exist an disfavor of this trope.
4. ↑ As a event, this exchange is rather popular amid William and Mary students.
5. ↑ The actual Ivy League does non play in the highest level of higher sports and does not offer many athletic scholarships, which makes it hard to attract or produce elite talent.

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