Top 5 Myths of the Ivy League | Yale, MIT, Harvard, Princeton? Easiest Ivy League to get into!
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Published 2023-07-21
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0:00 Top five myths of the Ivy League
0:11 Did you know?
1:14 I make too much and I'm never going to qualify for financial aid at an Ivy.
3:35 To get into an Ivy League college, I have to have perfect scores and a perfect GPA.
4:33 I'll get more merit money if I have higher scores.
6:09 All Ivy League colleges are equally hard to get into.
7:31 Did you know?
8:12 Ivy League, colleges are too expensive for me to attend.
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Did you know? There are not just the eight Ivy League colleges, but there's also Little Ivies and Ivy Adjacent.
So there's no definitive list of Little Ivies or Ivy Adjacent colleges, but Ivy Adjacent you could think of as like MIT, Stanford, big universities that people mentioned in the same breath with Ivies, but aren't necessarily. Ivy League colleges. Sometimes when I make videos about Ivy Leagues and I will reference like MIT or Stanford, people put in the comments, those aren't Ivy League colleges.
And I'm like, you're right. They're absolutely not. They're Ivy adjacent and they have the same criteria to get in as Ivy League. So from my perspective and my students perspective, same thing. Little Ivies are small liberal arts colleges, Amherst, Swarthmore, Haverford, small colleges that give an incredibly good high standard education.
Did you know there were originally nine colonial colleges which are almost the same as the colleges of the Ivy League? Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, UPenn, Brown, Dartmouth. So the only one that isn't there, Cornell, which was founded a lot later. But also, the other two colonial colleges that are not Ivy League are William and Mary and Rutgers.
So those two colleges became public colleges. So not Ivy League because the Ivy Leagues are all private colleges. A lot of people get confused because they say, oh, University of Pennsylvania, that's a public college. Mm mm. University of Pennsylvania is a private college. Penn State is a public college, so public means that they get money from the state or the federal government, where UPenn does not.
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All Comments (21)
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Did you guys enjoy this video? What other topics would you like for me to talk about? Let me know in the comments! ♥♥♥
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GLAD I WATCHED THIS VIDEO!! I have a clear idea about ivy leagues now! Thank you so much Alyssa!
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That was so helpful! Thank you Alyssa
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Great video Alyssa please upload more !
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I’ve literally told my daughter every myth based off what I THOUGHT I knew. Knowledge is power, so thank you!
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Please upload more. You're one of the best on this platform.
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thank you for this video! this is freaking amazing!
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I DID NOT KNOW THAT!!!! OMG!!! I feel so much better about my college process now!!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH ALYSSA
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Alyssa this video was so useful 😮
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thank you!
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Greatest video
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The interviewers are not looking at your grades or GPA at all. They are providing a different kind of input for the admissions committee. One other point is that admissions rates are very misleading, since they are highly affected by the number of applications rather than simply the level of difficulty of meeting the cutoff.
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The Ivy League is a Division 1 sports league and in football they are in the less competitive Division 1AA. Where as Stanford is in the more competitive Division 1A. You should have started this video by explaining what the Ivy league actually is. Have to give it Yale for winning their first game in the tournament this year ( always fun to route for the underdog). Ironically, academically competitive students are competing to get into a noncompetitive college sports league.😮
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I want need blind scholarship and I'll not be able to pay the fees so should I apply for eay decision to ivy leagues like yale ..?
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Could you make a video for international students, how to increase their chances? Thanks in advance
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Hi, I am 43 years old and applying to Stanford, Berkeley, and UCLA for Fall 2024 using a VA program to pay for all. I meet transfer requirements as a Philosophy major for all but I am the definition of Nontrad due to two separate military tours with 3 years of University in between. I've got a 3.65 GPA after only obtaining a GED as a kid, now I major in Philosophy with minors in Psych, Soc, and Pol Sci, but I was curious if you think I'll be taken seriously as a transfer candidate, or am I barking up the wrong trees? Thank you for this video and your time.
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Ivy League is a group of dream schools!
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In the dc suburbs and nyc and California lots of people get no or almost no money to ivies. Cost of living is super high so salaries are high. Even 2 teachers make well over $200k combined. $350k plus is a typical salary but not enough to pay full freight or close to it at an icy
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Wat about international students???
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Hi, i was wondering if applying to financial aid lowers my chances at getting accepted to some top schools and ivies?
