<p>my dad used to work at harvard when i was 8.</p>
<p>Really young due to fam.</p>
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<li>I hear Ivy League all the time and they say that they are the best schools in the world. How naive of them</li>
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<p>lol @ swissas</p>
<p>this thread disturbs me...</p>
<p>I picture infants wearing yale sweatshirts...creepy.</p>
<p>I knew ivies since i was really small. My grandad was a fulbright scholar to cornell and then he was offered professorship there but didn't accept :D</p>
<p>Learned about them at 5- specifically harvard and princeton- then developed a disgust about them because they had lost their prestige in TEACHING undergrad at 9, when i visited and saw that a professor was not teaching them rather a Teacher Assistant was... i only respect them now because they have great alumnus and great graduate level teaching... ill be applying to harvard anyways, but not for undergrad... No offense to anyone who is going for undergrad to these ivies... conngrats on that effort... it is purely the brand name in my eyes...</p>
<p>I think I was in third grade when my teacher said something like: "I wouldn't be surprised if you ended up at Harvard"..or something like that. And of course at the time I had no idea what she was talking about.</p>
<p>A year ago:
I thought Stanford and Caltech were in the ivy league.
Didn't know that Princeton, Dartmouth, Brown, UPenn, Columbia, Cornell were in the ivy league.<br>
Vaguely remembered Dartmouth was mentioned in "She's All That"
Stayed in Columbia dorm for almost a week and thought it was a state school until my roommate decided to purchase a sweatshirt. "why?"</p>
<p>I was 8 when I found a booklet that talk about Columbia but I did not know that it was an ivy league or know anything about colleges besides La Sorbonne and LSE</p>
<p>I found out at the end of 9th grade.</p>
<p>Hmmm. It was before I first watched Legally Blonde (I'd have heard of Harvard by then), so I'm assuming.... like 10? Something like that. </p>
<p>Also, that movie proved to me that dumb people can get into Harvard and it happens. (Let's not get into a spiel about how she was really smart all the time- she was just too much of a stereotypical caricature for my tastes.)</p>
<p>Actually, it seemed to me the flaws that made her a "caricature" were products of her upbringing, which happened to be, if I perceived it correctly, that of the lower-class rich, or the "nouveau riche." Note her initial conflict with the students who still retained the prep school culture, who represent the landed/established upper class. Thus while both they and her came from wealthy families, she came from a family of lower social prestige. If anything was stereotypical, it was the American cliche of escaping your origins.</p>
<p>since i was 4. dad: johns hopkins, mom: cornell.</p>
<p>I think at the age of zero (since I was born). I've had this idea that Ivies were just going to happen to me. Logically you can see why. I've gotten into the best schools in my region (District 25's Alpha School in elementary, best school in NYC, and best school in the nation just seemed like the next logical step.)
For awhile I think until 8th grade when I started to look at what other people did to get into these top schools.</p>
<p>Columbia- Mom always mentioned it to me and wanted me to go there. I remember it when I was 10 years old and I was helping my mom cook, the first ever college she introduced me to was Columbia</p>
<p>Brown- 9th grade History teacher mentioned an elite Rhode Island school that she didn't continue her application to. That school is Brown.</p>
<p>Yale- Boy Meets World episode. Topanga turned down Yale to be with Corey. (Stupid decision. I guess long distance relationships didn't exist in that time period)</p>
<p>Harvard- Family Matters episode. Laura got into Harvard but couldn't attend because of financial circumstances. Very saddening.</p>
<p>UPenn- Encarta encyclopedia Ivy search</p>
<p>Dartmouth- Encarta encyclopedia search</p>
<p>Princeton- Carelton Bank's (Fresh Prince) acceptance into Princeton & Phillip Banks alma mater. first time ever hearing of Princeton</p>
<p>Cornell- 9th grade History teacher's first acceptance (turned down there and NYU for Wesleyan)</p>
<p>I found out about them when I was seven or eight. I live around Mount Holyoke, which has ivy on it and I thought it was pretty. I said to my mother that I wanted to go to a school with ivy on it, and she told me about the Ivy League.</p>
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Logically you can see why. I've gotten into the best schools in my region (District 25's Alpha School in elementary, best school in NYC, and best school in the nation just seemed like the next logical step.)
For awhile I think until 8th grade when I started to look at what other people did to get into these top schools.
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<p><em>rolleyes</em></p>
<p>nvr really obssesed over ivy league but i herd about it since before kindergarten. i rememebr all i knew was hyp, and i remember i thought i was the smartest in my class cause i could read and i just assumed i was going to harvard. lol. im still ivy i guess bu prob not hyp</p>
<p>I was in like 1st grade...so about 6/7?</p>
<p>My parents were talking about a neighbor going to an ivy league school, and I was thinking "hey, my elementary school has ivy in it!"</p>