Which Ivy League School Are You Totally Too Good For? Take The Quiz!

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The Ivy Leagues are overrated. While they're intended to train the best and brightest students from around the world to become the next generation's great leaders, they're often more like exclusive clubs that are incredibly difficult to gain access to. Often, the barrier to entry at an Ivy League institution isn't intelligence, but is instead money or influence. Who you know can matter much more than what you know. Each Ivy League is exclusive in unique ways. No two are the same, and each presents its own distinct persona. Although each of these schools is located somewhere in the Northeast United States, there's plenty that distinguishes these schools from one another.

Given that Ivy Leagues are each exclusive in their own unique way, this quiz is designed to show you which of these schools you're far too good for. From Cornell to Harvard, these schools run the gamut of prestige and quality, but you wouldn't want to go to any of them anyway. We don't need to be part of their institutional club. Everyone is totally too good for at least one major Ivy League, and now it's time to find out which Ivy League you're definitely too good for.

Question 1

What Kind of Candy do You Prefer?

Our taste in food speaks not only to what kind of life we want to lead, but also to where our interests lay more generally. Those with particularly strong sweet-tooths may also be more inclined to do something daring or adventurous, while those that prefer dark chocolate may be a bit more health conscious and relaxed.

Question 2

What Would You Want to Major in at Your Ivy League of Choice?

There's a wide range of majors and degree options, and although the Ivy League obviously has a great array of professors across all of their departments, each does have its own specialties. What you like to study also speaks to where your interests lay, and can communicate more about your personality than you might initially expect.

Question 3

What's Your Favorite Sport to Play?

In the 21st Century, most people often spend more time watching sports than they do playing them. At Ivy League universities, though, there's usually some expectation of physical activity, even if it's a limited one. All of these schools have fairly robust athletic programs, but that doesn't mean each one of them doesn't have a certain number of specialty sports.

Question 4

How Often Do you Take Road Trips?

Road trips are a national American past time. Part of what makes America so wonderful is its sheer size, and the number of different sights across the country that are well worth seeing. These schools may all be located in one region, but each one of them targets a different level of adventurousness. Some people don't much enjoy taking trips, but others really do love them.

Question 5

How Many Books Do You Read a Year?

Reading is obviously something that every Ivy League school values. It's the best way humans have found to transmit ideas to one another, and the Ivy Leagues are especially focused on making sure their students learn as much as possible while they're there. Still reading is of varying importance at each university, so how much you end up reading really depends on which school you end up at.

Question 6

What's the Ideal Temperature?

Although each of these colleges is located in the same region of the United States, each one has a slightly different climate that might not be conducive to all weather preferences. All of them experience every season, to be sure, but to varying degrees of severity. If you're looking for a more temperate climate, you might want to look outside the Ivy League, but even inside of it, there's room for variation.

Question 7

What Generation do You Belong to (or wish you belonged to)?

Like it or not, the generation we belong to says something about how we were raised. Rarely have the labels that define us said more about who we are, even if they shouldn't. Baby boomers were born into a time of prosperity and wealth, while Gen X kids were forced to deal with a bit more uncertainty. Each of these generations speaks to who we are, and to where we might fit in.

Question 8

What Score Did You Get on Your SATs?

The SATs are the bane of most high school students existence. For dedicated students, the exam can take up a remarkable amount of brain power, and taking it requires hours of sitting through questions. By the end, all you really want is to go home. Some SAT scores are out of 2400, but for the purposes of this quiz, we'll stick to 1600. If your score is out of 2400, do a little mental math and convert it.

Question 9

How Do You Get Most of Your News?

The way we learn about the world speaks to the way we want to see it. As technology has evolved and changed, so too have our ways of interacting with it. It wasn't too long ago that most people subscribed to a daily newspaper, but that reality has slowly morphed into a world where young people get their news on their phones, at least for the most part.

Question 10

Which Fantasy Series is Your Favorite?

Fantasy doesn't appeal to everyone, but for those who love it, their tastes tend to be fairly specific. Of course, this kind of out and out fantasy is fairly nerdy, but if you want to be accepted at an Ivy League school, you might have to get kind of nerdy. Even within fantasy, there's tons of variation, and every Ivy League nerd almost definitely has a solid favorite.

Question 11

Which Disney Villain do you Most Identify With?

The Disney villains have big personalities, but most of them are people we understand in one way or another. Even the biggest and broadest characters have some humanity hidden inside of them, and that humanity is something that audiences identify with. You wouldn't think that which Disney villain you like best would speak to which school is the best fit for you, but their personalities speak to your own.

Question 12

Pick a Phrase That Describes Your Work Habits

People work in wildly different ways, and that's okay. As long as the work gets done on time and it looks good, it doesn't really matter when it got done. That being said, these different work ethics may radically affect which Ivy League school is the right fit for you. These schools operate differently, both as universities, and as places for students to live and work.

Question 13

Where Do You Spend Your Free Time?

College campuses are rife with ways to spend what little free time you get in college, but depending on what you're looking for, each of these schools may or may not be the right fit. Everyone's work is rife with potential conflicts, and relaxation often feels like it's never going to come. How you spend what little time away from work you get speaks to your identity.

Question 14

How Important is Partying to Your College Experience?

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Parties are a part of every college student's life, but how big an aspect of the experience it is really depends on where you end up. Each of these schools has some sort of party scene, but each one is different, and some of them are more intense than others. The party scene you're looking for is almost definitely here, if you're looking for it.

Question 15

What's Your Favorite Color?

For the four years you spend at each of these Ivy League institutions, your school colors will be more important than you think. You'll start to accumulate school gear, either by accident or on purpose, and you may begin to dress in the colors of that school more regularly. Having said that, your favorite color may seem trivial, but it'll matter some in helping you to choose which school is right for you.

Question 16

How Important is Good Food to You?

These are Ivy League universities, so the dining is going to be better than what you might get on most college campuses. Having said that, the majority of college campus food is pretty terrible, so it becomes a matter of picking the least terrible option from among many. If food is important to you, you might want to go to a university with better dining facilities.

Question 17

What Part of the Country are You From?

The region you come from speaks to who you are as an individual. There are few parts of the country or world that don't have some impact on the people who hale from that region. Everything from the way you speak to how you dress can be influenced by where you were born, and all of it matters in determining which Ivy League school you're definitely too good for.

Question 18

What Was Your High School GPA?

As every college applicant knows, high school GPA matters more than it probably should. Every student has stressed over whether their GPA is high enough to get into the school of their dreams, and many have tried to boost it as much as possible. We all know that our GPA doesn't define the rest of our lives, but in high school, it can sure feel like it does.

Question 19

How Many Steps do You Take a Day?

Walking is a part of every college experience, but some campuses are much more sprawling than others. If you like walking, then you may be interested in one of the bigger campuses in this group, which can give you a better sense of the town the campus is in, and what goes on outside of it. If you're a bit lazier, one of the smaller campuses might be for you.

Question 20

You Ideal Roommate is...

Roommates are a part of every college experience, but people look for different things from the people that they share space with. While some are interested in a quiet place to do work, others want to bond with their roommates and form friendships that will last after the room has been cleaned out. Either way, these colleges might have something for you.

Question 21

How Much Sleep Do You Need a Night?

Sleeping habits tend to get pretty screwy in college, but your sleep needs might be adjustable enough to make that work. If not, there are some Ivy League schools that probably wouldn't make a great fit. They may say that they understand how valuable sleep is for maintaining good health, but then they give you a 30 page paper, so sleep might not be in the cards.

Question 22

What Does Your Ideal Work Space Look Like?

Everyone works differently, and in college, that's certainly okay. Whatever your work habits look like, most people work best in a specific setting. Some have trouble doing work where they sleep, while others prefer to work that way. Whatever the case may be, every student has an ideal environment, and each of these schools is capable of providing that environment.

Question 23

How Many Extracurricular Activities Do You Want to Pursue?

Every college has opportunities for students to pursue activities that have little or nothing to do with the work that they're doing in class. These opportunities can range from musical groups to club sports, but the number of extracurricular activities you pursue speaks to how many diverse interests you have, and to what you may want to do with your life moving forward.

Question 24

What's the Best Way to Travel?

The 21st century gives people plenty of options when it comes to travel, and college students tend to be familiar with quite a few of them. No matter where they come from, these students have to get to their campus and back to their homes on a fairly regular basis. Some may also have to travel once they get to their schools, depending on where they end up.

Question 25

What's the Best Food to Get Delivered?

Another great thing about modern life is the number of options for delivery that there are. If the dining hall sucks, then the next best option might be to order food that can be delivered to the dorm. What that food is might be the subject of some fairly fierce debate, but what you ultimately decide speaks to what kind of food you want to live near, and by default, what kind of experience you'd like in college.

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