<p>I'm international. I was about 9 when I read about it in some newspaper article :D i couldn't understand how growing ivy plants meant they were good universities, but now i'm accepted to one of them!</p>
<p>it'd be interesting to know how long ago did the obsession begin for some of us :D</p>
<p>woah which one?</p>
<p>congrats anyway =)</p>
<p>Princeton :)
and LBW you haven't answered my question!</p>
<p>u're the SG dude rite? which school?</p>
<p>not too sure, probably around 14/15...frankly speaking i wasnt even thinking about uni until i graduate from high school, not your typical CCer</p>
<p>16.</p>
<p>I found out which schools were Ivy League schools during my senior year. Yep...</p>
<p>i was really little and i watched gilmore girls</p>
<p>Um, let me think. I was in the 2nd grade and my teacher got into Harvard. I didn't know what Ivy League meant, though.</p>
<p>when i was 8 or 9...but only knew abt a couple of them...i only found out all 8 during my senior year</p>
<p>IDK. I've always heard about Harvard, Yale and Princeton just from pop culture. I didn't know what Dartmouth, Upenn or Cornell were, however until I was about 14/15 y/o.</p>
<p>probably like 5th grade, so 9 or 10. I thought it was "i-vor-ee" instead of "ivy league" tho. wierd rite</p>
<p>I live near an Ivy and my parents work at one so...</p>
<p>3rd grade.</p>
<p>Probably when I was 8 or 9 when I heard it mentioned on a TV show (Saved by the bell!).</p>
<p>The day I asked where my parents, grandparents and great grandparents had gone to college.</p>
<p>The third grade always goes on a field trip to Yale at my elementary school alma mater -- and my family has also made annual pilgrimages to Harvard/Yale for The Game</p>
<p>Hmm. I can't really pinpoint it. I knew them as pop-culture things since I was probably around 10 or 11 (Gilmore Girls, etc). I didn't know all of them or consider them for college until my junior year. Heck, I just assumed I would be going to Penn State in my freshman/sophomore years and before that I just knew I'd be going to college- didn't know which one.</p>
<p>I don't really remember...</p>
<p>I think I knew about Stanford, MIT, and Caltech before the Ivies. Once I learned exactly which 8 schools were actually in the Ivy League (probably around freshman year or before), I'd already heard of all 8, but also thought some were in the Ivy League that actually are not (like Duke).</p>
<p>Not until junior high...although I knew about Harvard and Yale before then because of their prestige</p>
<p>Hmm, I don't really know. I remember being young(er) and assuming that any school that had ivy growing on the buildings was part of the 'ivy league'. I'd heard of Princeton, Harvard, and Yale earlier, but I never knew about Brown or Cornell until I came on CC. Oh, and I thought UPenn was a state school for awhile. Ah, so young and naive. :)</p>
<p>in terms of universities oxford and cambridge are the first ones i remember learning of. like d4r7h3v1l i think i learnt about Stanford, MIT and Caltech before the Ivies. Harvard unsurprisingly was the first Ivy I had heard about - remember being 11-12. Learnt about the rest as I went through high school</p>