If the Washington Monument represented all U.S. undergraduates, Ivy Leaguers would make up only 20 inches.
In an article posted last week, the Chronicle of Higher Education calls the Ivy League "the social and political petri dish for the nation's future leaders" but contends that "the eight colleges are an insignificant part of the higher-ed landscape."
The Chronicle points out that 1 in 3 Rhodes Scholars come from the Ivies and that they claim a sixth of total endowment wealth in the United States but that Pell Grant recipients are generally underrepresented on Ivy League campuses, compared to the percentage of recipients at other schools.
