The Parent’s Guide to Getting Your Student In to the Ivy League Parents want their children to do well in life, and if you have always dreamed of having your son or daughter graduate from an Ivy League college — which, to define the term “Ivy League,” refers to the eight schools that make up “The Ivies” and includes: Harvard, Princeton, Yale (the “Big Three”), as well as Brown, Dartmouth, Cornell, Columbia, and Penn (The University of Pennsylvania), there are many thing you can do that will help your student succeed in the college admissions and Ivy League college admissions process, in particular. #1. Make sure your student takes as many AP courses as possible: College admissions officers, especially at the most competitive schools, want to see that your student is not only challenging themselves by taking the most difficult courses possible at their particular school, but they want to see that they are ALREADY fully immersed in college-level classes, before they even get to college. In other words, if your student’s high school doesn’t currently offer any AP or IB course work, make sure they get classes at that level somewhere else (like enrolling in a community college after