Member characteristics
These eight schools have many common features:
1、? Produce the most Rhodes scholarship winners.
2、? The United States was founded before independence (except Cornell University).
3、? Private schools (but both government funding and private donations are accepted, just like public universities, such as Cornell University, which has four colleges fully supported by the government).
4、? Protestant background. King's College of the Church of England in colonial new york was split in the War of Independence and was transformed into a non-sectarian Columbia University. In the early19th century, although Kelvin priests were trained by religious groups, every Ivy League school still had a strong religious control component. For example, the compulsory worship activities in every school continued until the 20th century.
Although the University of Pennsylvania and Brown University were originally established as secular schools, the board of directors of Brown University, for example, consists of 22 Baptists, 5 Quakers, 4 congressmen and 5 Anglicans. Only Cornell University has maintained its secular independence. Even so, many churches on campus are major buildings.
5、? The admission rate is low. Although the admission rate can not reflect whether a university has a high standard, it is related to whether the admission threshold of the university is high or low, and to the average quality of the enrolled population, the admission rate can still be used as a reliable indicator of the popularity of a university.
Until 65438+ 1960' s, all schools except Cornell University only recruited boys. At the latest, Colombia began to run a joint school with women's universities in 1983, and introduced women. After World War II, these Ivy League schools began to gradually relax the admission threshold (race and gender), and the admission rate dropped significantly.
Ivy League universities attract a large number of high school graduates from different majors all over the country every year, so they have to go through layers of selection to enter these universities, and the competition is fierce. Since 2000, the admission rate of each school has ranged from 6% to 16%, and most of the students are from New England (northeastern United States).
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Application conditions
Generally speaking, those who can go to these schools are students with good study, strong independent spirit and special skills. Generally speaking, students who apply for Ivy League universities in the United States have excellent SAT scores (commonly known as the American College Entrance Examination, the range is 2 100-2300). At the same time, many students have won national and even international outstanding student awards, and the curriculum intensity of high school is among the best in the school, with various specialties and leadership abilities.
However, academic performance is not the only factor in the enrollment of these schools. Whether students have independent spirit and can adapt to the tense and stressful life of freshmen in school is also an important factor they should consider. These schools adopt the principle of "only choosing the best students, regardless of family income", and the admissions office can fully enroll students according to its own situation, regardless of the ability of students' families to pay tuition fees.
The school's strong financial resources will make up for the shortcomings, thus benefiting outstanding children from many poor families. It is such strict admission principles and perfect funding policies that have ensured the prosperity of these prestigious schools for hundreds of years. However, these eight Ivy League schools recruit no more than 80 students from China each year, including students studying in high schools in the United States and Singapore.
Ivy League schools occupy an important position in the academic history of the contemporary world, and they are also outstanding in the scientific research and education system of the whole western world. It has become a cultural symbol. In the development of contemporary western scientific and technological civilization, it has made irreplaceable outstanding contributions from other educational groups. Just from the number of Nobel Prize winners it has trained, it is enough to dominate the world.
References:
Baidu encyclopedia-ivy