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Thank you We sneak College one oh one ivy league

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schools What are ivy league schools So they're eight universities

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that banded together they had a common interest to come

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and athletic program and they really wanted to be the

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best universities in the country So they banded together and

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formed not just an athletic conference but kind of an

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academic overlap So go ahead and name them for us

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Penn princeton columbia cornell harvard yale brown and dartmouth So

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are these the best eight universities in the country I

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think you know they're certainly going argue and it's not

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like you're going to come out of harvard with a

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bad education People know the name No yale that they

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know princeton but i eating khun name a lot of

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famous eleven soon come out of places like williams and

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hammerstein middlebury and grinnell and carlton on the university of

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illinois So there's certainly gonna grant you an education open

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a lot of doors I think it's hard really to

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say whether or not they're truly superior because that's a

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very subjective thing The league is eight universities that joined

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together out of common interests in nineteen fifty four They

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strive to be the best schools in the united states

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u penn princeton columbia cornell harvard yale brown and dartmouth

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They're well known for providing a great education Yeah Harvard

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