ivy league
Climbing vine conference
Ivy League refers to eight prestigious universities in the northeastern United States: Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Penn, Princeton, and Yale.
Originally an athletic conference, the term now connotes academic excellence, selective admissions, and elite social status.
As an adjective, ivy league suggests preppy sophistication or old-money privilege: an ivy league education, ivy league style.
- HarvardPrestigious Cambridge university
- YaleIvy League institution
- PrincetonIvy League university
- Big ThreeChief triad of leaders
- ColumbiaAmerica personified, or its namesakes
Brown · Dartmouth · Cornell · Penn · elite · old money · prestige · secret society · admissions · early decision · acceptance letter · campus · college town · Gothic architecture · rowing · crew team · preppy · legacy
- academiaprofessors, universities, graduation cap, biology department, professor
- collegecampus, courses, application, dorms, dorm room
- haircutsbuzz cut, bob cut, bob, buzzcut, undercut
- hairstylesbob, bun, braids, updo, braid
- cultural capitaleducation, elite schools, degrees, diplomas, etiquette
- elite networksold boys network, old boys club, inner circle, inner circles, cronyism
ivy leaguecommunity college
Two-year public institution
junior college · diploma mill · bottom-tier · state school · for-profit college
ivy leagueblue-collar
Manual labor workforce
working-class · school of hard knocks · common · everyman · plebeian
ivy leaguetrade school
Career-focused technical education
vocational school · technical college · apprenticeship · on-the-job training · vo-tech