Generally, ivy league schools are considered schools that offer a higher education. When the term was first being used in the 50s, it referred to a group of eight private higher education schools in the Northeast. These eight schools played each other in sporting events and were considered a group. The ivy league schools within this original group of eight include Yale, Brown University, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Princeton and the University of Pennsylvania.

Usually you will get a similar quality or in some cases a better quality education at a regular school.

-more challenging material taught to students

-higher quality professors

-price of tuition

-job oppurtunites after college