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Ivy League
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  • In certain respects it was the least demanding school I'd ever attended: no AP classes, no hectoring about SATs and Ivy League admissions, no back-breaking math and language requirements—in fact, no requirements at all.†   (source)
  • There are about twelve thousand spots for Ivy League freshmen every year.†   (source)
  • "They play Ivy League, and they can't even win there."†   (source)
  • Yeah, but the University of Alaska …. you wouldn't really consider that when you could go Ivy League.†   (source)
  • He went to the University of Iowa and felt liberated there until he was told that Ivy League schools were better.†   (source)
  • He held degrees from three Ivy League medical schools and had a CV thick enough to serve as a doorstop.†   (source)
  • I can think of only one reason my parents would need a mortgage: to pay my Ivy League tuition.†   (source)
  • His large round face and burly frame made him resemble a club bouncer more than an Ivy League grad student.†   (source)
  • Later, after a hot shower and with the suit on, I looked like an Ivy League kid from the 1950s.†   (source)
  • All the Ivy League men in those striped suits and ribbed black socks that go all the way to the knee so when they cross their legs on TV we don't see a patch of spooky white flesh between the sock and the pants cuff.†   (source)
  • Beautiful Ivy League boys and girls, brains and nerds, surrounded me.†   (source)
  • Both kids were rich, Ivy League, popular.†   (source)
  • Certainly he would be much better off under somebody suave like General Peckem than he was under somebody boorish and insensitive like General Dreedle, because General Peckem had the discernment, the intelligence and the Ivy League background to appreciate and enjoy him at his full value, although General Peckem had never given the slightest indication that he appreciated or enjoyed him at all.†   (source)
  • If you weren't one of the few golden children, anointed early for the AP-Ivy League fast track, you made your choices with the minimal and usually disinterested help of one of the three guidance counselors allotted for the entire class.†   (source)
  • The man's impeccable grasp of the English language, spoken without a hint of a British accent, meant he'd probably studied at an Ivy League school in the States.†   (source)
  • Chapter 28 — The interview for the Ivy League.†   (source)
  • Those I saw were mostly modest five-by-sevens (I later learned they were gifts for contributions to his first campaign), plainly framed black-andwhite portraits of him, often hung in a kind of sacred paper altar that mom-and-pop businesses tape up on the wall beside the cash register: John Kwang hung there with the first tilled bills of each denomination, a son's Ivy League diploma, a tattered letter of U.S. citizenship from the county clerk of Queens.†   (source)
  • I figured that with all those Ivy League recruits, a boy from Upper Iowa College in old Fayette, Big I, ought to have an edge somewhere.†   (source)
  • Willie thought I said Harvard and told Phil I was going to an Ivy League school.†   (source)
  • We never saw each other during the four years of high school because her parents sent her to a very expensive and exclusive girls' prep school where the tough curriculum was geared to get students into Ivy League colleges.†   (source)
  • The Ivy League business was, of course, an imbecilic illusion… The University Residence Club was only one small cut above a flophouse, differing from Bowery accommodations to the extent of nominal privacy in the form of a locked door.†   (source)
  • Recall that not a single one of my high school classmates attended an Ivy League school.   (source)
  • I knew zero Ivy League graduates back home; I was the first person in my nuclear family to go to college and the first person in my extended family to attend a professional school.   (source)
  • They may look like me, but for all of the Ivy League's obsession with diversity, virtually everyone—black, white, Jewish, Muslim, whatever—comes from intact families who never worry about money.   (source)
  • Today people look at me, at my job and my Ivy League credentials, and assume that I'm some sort of genius, that only a truly extraordinary person could have made it to where I am today.   (source)
  • But as I realized that in this new world I was the cultural alien, I began to think seriously about questions that had nagged at me since I was a teenager: Why has no one else from my high school made it to the Ivy League?   (source)
  • "Goldy said the Ivy League schools didn't give athletic scholarships," Ducky went on.†   (source)
  • As a northeastern Ivy League graduate, his diction was so exacting he sounded almost British.†   (source)
  • And then, two years later, he enrolls in an Ivy League university.†   (source)
  • About my mysterious acceptance into an Ivy League college?†   (source)
  • Ceremonies large and small welcome each youngster to the exclusive society of the Ivy League.†   (source)
  • I knew now why I had disliked those Ivy League kids so, for so long.†   (source)
  • Less than a month ago, I was within days of an Ivy League degree and a career at my father's side.†   (source)
  • I will never forget being laughed at for saying I wanted to go to the Ivy League.†   (source)
  • The American Niemans, almost all of them, had already been to Ivy League schools.†   (source)
  • It's still tops, still Ivy League, but it seems like you can go at your own speed.†   (source)
  • There's no right, as far as I see, to go to an Ivy League institution.†   (source)
  • Taylor, Brown is Ivy league, real esteemed, but seems more accepting of different types of people.†   (source)
  • By late September, Cedric was sharing a boiler room in Washington with other Ivy League graduates.†   (source)
  • Well, that's fine, but I'm not sure if I would have selected an Ivy League school.†   (source)
  • He looked more like someone Anderson would expect to find hearthside in some Ivy League library reading Dostoyevsky.†   (source)
  • The partners at the top firms graduated from the same Ivy League schools, attended the same churches, and summered in the same oceanside towns on Long Island.†   (source)
  • WE SAT IN THE nearly empty bar —a once-famous oak-panelled joint smelling of hamburger grease, Ivy League pennants on the walls, while Platt talked in a rambling, uneasy monotone so quietly I had to strain to follow.†   (source)
  • How to Get into an Ivy League School.†   (source)
  • …I thought, not for the first time, how there'd been no freedom for Platt in his refusal to grow up, how by slacking off too long he'd managed to destroy every last glimmer of his hereditary privilege; and now he was always going to be loitering at the margins of the party with his gin and lime while his baby brother Toddy—still in college—stood talking in a group which included the president of an Ivy League college, a billionaire financier, and the publisher of an important magazine.†   (source)
  • For absolutely no reason except to ingratiate himself and show off his hot little Ivy League intellect.†   (source)
  • All these high-level functionaries in the Kingdom, Alan had been told, had been educated in the Ivy League and U.K. With this guy, Alan guessed St. Andrews.†   (source)
  • This was Courtney's second night at the Cormier household, thanks to her brainiac older brother, who had dragged her parents on a whirlwind tour of Ivy League colleges on the East Coast.†   (source)
  • And here he was living off Nancy and Charlie and going to an Ivy League school where he had been mistaken for the son of a king, studying organic chemistry and philosophy.†   (source)
  • The worst part was, the jerk had one of those very phony, Ivy League voices, one of those very tired, snobby voices.†   (source)
  • My father drew himself up to his full academic, Ivy League-professor height, the one from which he looked down on everybody who expressed interest in sports or daily life.†   (source)
  • Uncle Al was touchy about not having a vet, and then out of blue, here you are, from an Ivy League school no less.†   (source)
  • Strictly Ivy League.†   (source)
  • She handed us not only a veterinarian with an Ivy League degree--a veterinarian befitting a big show like ours--but also a veterinarian so devoted to his charges that he made a most amazing discovery.†   (source)
  • I know the Ivy League must be hard.†   (source)
  • Butch squints, clearly having never heard of it, and Cedric helps him along, "tt's in Providence, Rhode Island……It's Ivy League and all."†   (source)
  • "Ivy League?" she says with a flourish.†   (source)
  • I don't believe they have athletic scholarships in the Ivy League," she says, giving her tone just the right mix of condescension and impatience.†   (source)
  • The Ivy League is a rarity for a young person from Scripture, and Long hopes it will be seen as a blazing testimony to faith.†   (source)
  • Who's he to be writing this letter, he muses, a letter from prison to an Ivy League college; sure they don't get much jail mail in the Ivies.†   (source)
  • He tortured himself for a week with this one-various Ivy League faces staring in horror at his application.†   (source)
  • I've seen him grow from an uncertain sixteen-year-old ducking through a war zone to a young man of gravity and grace, now twenty and on his way to an Ivy League degree.†   (source)
  • In a hallway encounter earlier today, Keels told Cedric his score "won't rate," that "top schools, Ivy League schools, don't care about your grades if your test scores are sub par."†   (source)
  • She knows, of course, that the typical Brown parents probably went to college and on to some professional status that their offspring, by virtue of this Ivy League acceptance, are now bounding toward.†   (source)
  • While Cedric remains guarded about discussing his application to MIT (fearing, already, the ridicule if lie's rejected) he begins to talk around it, near it, mentioning how, someday, he'd like to go to "some Ivy League or whatever."†   (source)
  • Remember when we were in your classroom that time, me and LaTisha, and she was busting me about putting all my faith in making it to the Ivy League, to a place I'd never seen, where I might not be welcomed?†   (source)
  • He wasn't, quite yet, just another student passing through an Ivy League college But, with each passing month, he grows closer to feeling inconspicuous at Brown and at once-foreign ports of American life.†   (source)
  • But, in traveling from a blighted urban terrain to Ivy League distinction, and then in taking some early steps toward professional success, he's earned insights about himself, race, class, hope, faith, and the elusive "unseen," that exceed even the most wild imaginings of the gangly sixteen-year-old I met in the hallways of Ballou High School in 1994.†   (source)
  • I had been lured to this place, on my arrival in New York, not alone by its name—which conjured up an image of Ivy League camaraderie, baize-covered lounge tables littered with copies of the New Republic and Partisan Review, and elderly retainers in frock coats fretting over messages and catering to one's needs—but by its modest rates: ten dollars a week.†   (source)
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