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The School Newspaper of Winston Churchill High School.

The Observer

The School Newspaper of Winston Churchill High School.

The Observer

The School Newspaper of Winston Churchill High School.

The Observer

The Princeton University Library is just one of the state of the art buildings on the Princeton campus. Despite the stunning campuses of the Ivy Leagues, there are many downsides that come with attending these schools.

Observer Opinion: overrated Ivies?

By Rebecca Dean, Features Editor October 28, 2024

Although the term “Ivy League” was first conceived in 1937 to refer to the Northeastern football league, the phrase is now synonymous with academic excellence, prestige and exclusivity. Every year,...

An Anonymous reporter from AP Classroom Daily shares the latest addition to the Ivy League university blacklist, announced just moments earlier by the National American Ivy League Society: Winston Churchill High School.

WCHS try-hards punished by Ivy League blacklist

By Ha-Yeon Jeon, The Observer's Unquestioned Leader April 4, 2024

MCPS students, beware: as of the 2024-2025 school year, the county has officially been moved from the warning label to the banned list by the National American Ivy League Society (NAILS). This demotion,...

Number of CHS Ivy League applicants doubles

By Rebecca Jackson, News Editor February 8, 2018

During one fateful day in March dubbed “Ivy Day,” CHS seniors anxiously chattered in the hallways about who got accepted to which colleges. On that day, eight of the most selective schools in the country...

The myth of the Ivy: Is reputation overrated?

By Amna Farooqi, Editor-In-Chief May 13, 2011

Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Princeton, University of Pennsylvania and Yale. The Ivy League. To some, they are the most prestigious; they receive the most money, and they are the schools...

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