<p>I just saw an old thread that reminded me again of cases where a parent writes “Ivy” when it is not clear that a college actually in the Ivy League </p>
<p>[Ivy</a> League - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivy_League]Ivy”>Ivy League - Wikipedia) </p>
<p>is intended. There are eight colleges in the Ivy League. A few students apply to all eight. Many students apply to some subset of the eight. But some students prefer some colleges that don’t happen to be in that sports conference to some colleges that are.</p>