All 22 Uses of
Ivy League
in
A Hope in the Unseen
- He tortured himself for a week with this one-various Ivy League faces staring in horror at his application.†
Chpt 3Ivy League = a group of universities and colleges in the northeastern United States that regularly compete against each other in sports
- 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."†
Chpt 3
- "Ivy League?" she says with a flourish.†
Chpt 3
- 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."†
Chpt 5
- It's still tops, still Ivy League, but it seems like you can go at your own speed.†
Chpt 5
- He tries it out: "Mr. Taylor, Brown is Ivy league, real esteemed, but seems more accepting of different types of people."†
Chpt 5
- Well, that's fine, but I'm not sure if I would have selected an Ivy League school.†
Chpt 5
- I will never forget being laughed at for saying I wanted to go to the Ivy League.†
Chpt 5
- 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.†
Chpt 6
- 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."†
Chpt 6
- 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.†
Chpt 7
- Ceremonies large and small welcome each youngster to the exclusive society of the Ivy League.†
Chpt 7
- There's no right, as far as I see, to go to an Ivy League institution.†
Chpt 8
- I know the Ivy League must be hard.†
Chpt 8
- 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.†
Chpt 8
- 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.†
Chpt 12
- 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?†
Chpt 13
- 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.†
Chpt Epil.
- 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.†
Chpt A.N.
- 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.†
Chpt A.N.
- An Ivy League credential, an indisputable American prize.
Chpt A.N. *Ivy League = a group of universities and colleges in the northeastern United States with a reputation for scholastic achievement and social prestige
- By late September, Cedric was sharing a boiler room in Washington with other Ivy League graduates.†
Chpt A.N.Ivy League = a group of universities and colleges in the northeastern United States that regularly compete against each other in sports
Definition:
a group of universities and colleges in the northeastern United States that regularly compete against each other in sports and have a reputation for scholastic achievement and social prestige
(Specifically: Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Penn, Princeton, & Yale)
(Specifically: Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Penn, Princeton, & Yale)