Sylvia Plath Everybody had to go to some college or other. A business college, a junior college, a state college, a secretarial college, an Ivy League college, a pig farmer’s college. The book first, then the work. – Sylvia Plath
Stacy Brown-Philpot I didn’t know Penn was an Ivy League school – I didn’t know what the Ivy League was. When I got in, they sent me the package, and the tuition was my mother’s salary for a year. My mom said, ‘We can’t afford it.’ So I went to the library and found several scholarships and grants and was able to cover 90 percent of my education that way. – Stacy Brown-Philpot
Spalding Gray I was raised as an upper-class WASP in New England, and there was this old tradition there that everyone would simply be guided into the right way after Ivy League college and onward and upward. And it rejected me, I rejected it, and I ended up as a kind of refugee, really. – Spalding Gray
Shailene Woodley Everyone today is like, ‘Shailene, you’re getting so much buzz. How does the feel?’ It’s the most odd question because it’s like asking a kid who got into Cornell how it feels to be the top of your class at one of the Ivy League schools. How do you answer that? You just go, ‘I don’t know.’ – Shailene Woodley
Sebastian Thrun Less than one percent of U.S. college students attend Ivy League schools, and these students don’t necessarily reflect the world’s brightest and most capable thought leaders but, rather, the people who’ve been afforded the most opportunities to succeed. – Sebastian Thrun
Sandra Tsing Loh A deep river of must-have school mania runs through the chattering classes. There is, of course, the parental adrenaline rush at suburban cocktail parties that comes from announcing one’s son or daughter as an Ivy Leaguer. – Sandra Tsing Loh
Sami Zayn Neville and I are big fans of ska. He’s actually more into original, Jamaican, skinhead, two-tone ska from England, but I’m more into punk ska – Operation Ivy and stuff Rancid would do. – Sami Zayn
Robert Reich Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and the rest of the Ivy League are worthy institutions, to be sure, but they’re not known for educating large numbers of poor young people. – Robert Reich
Robert Klein But to do it professionally is a quantum leap difference and my father had to be persuaded by these kind of Ivy League professors that I should go to the Yale Drama School, another one of the stories in there. – Robert Klein
Robert Evans I never graduated high school; they had to change the Ivy League rules. During my tenure at Brown, I helped them become the number one Ivy League school. – Robert Evans
Paul Giamatti Academia is a rarified culture, especially an Ivy League academic background. – Paul Giamatti
