Ranking the Ivy League Schools In Terms of Hotness: Celebrities Edition

Posted by The Ivy League 09/25/2008 7:45 PM

The Ivy League is comprised of some of the best and brightest minds in the world, but not everyone who attends the Ancient Eight is a pimple-faced, pocket-pocketing egghead. Some are actually attractive Hollywood celebrities.

In honor of this startling revelation, OTR presents a ranking of the Ivy League universities based on the number of hot celebrities that attended each school.

(DO) denotes they dropped out.

1. Columbia: Admittedly, it was a close race between the top two schools on the list, but ultimately, Columbia narrowly pulled ahead by marrying quality with quantity.
Notable Celebrities: Alicia Keys (DO), Jake Gyllenhaal (DO), Anna Paquin, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Julia Stiles, Amanda Peet, Famke Janssen, Matthew Fox, Jesse Bradford, Rider Strong, Casey Affleck, Katie Holmes (attended for a summer session), Lauren Graham and James Franco.

2. Harvard: Shocked that the nerdiest Ivy is second on the list? So are we.
Notable Celebrities: Rashida Jones, Tatyana Ali, Natalie Portman, Elisabeth Shue, Mira Sorvino, Matt Damon (DO), Traci Bingham (dropped out for Baywatch), B.J. Novak and Conan O’Brien (the pompadour is hot).

3. Yale: In a distant third comes New Haven’s own Ivy League school with a handful of attractive celebrity attendees.
Notable Celebrities: Shia Labeouf (DO), Jordana Brewster, Jennifer Connelly, Edward Norton, young Meryl Streep and Claire Danes.

4. Princeton: While the celebrities of Princeton are admittedly drop-dead gorgeous, they’re mostly men, so the school was docked for lack of variety.
Notable Celebrities: Brooke Shields, Wentworth Miller, Dean Cain and David Duchovny.

5. University of Pennsylvania: Yes – I know. You’d expect a business-focused school to attract nothing but greasy Wall Street types, but as it turns out, that’s simply not the case.
Notable Celebrities: Elizabeth Banks, John Legend, Maury Povich (OK -- not hot, but who doesn’t love him?) and Ivanka Trump

6. Cornell: From here on out, the hotness level takes a sharp nosedive. You’ve been warned.
Notable Celebrities: Bill Nye the Science Guy (admit it – you all had a crush on him), Christopher Reeve, Bill Maher and Jimmy Smits.

7. Dartmouth: People often forget that this school is even in the Ivy League, and now, you know why.
Notable Celebrities: Rachel Dratch (sort of hot – right?!), young Meryl Streep (a repeat, because she was an exchange student) and Prison Breaks’ Sarah Wayne Callies.

8. Brown: Nobody hot – let alone a celebrity – has ever gone to this school. Just kidding – sorta!
The only notable celebrity is Leelee Sobieski, and she dropped out!

Comments

Anonymous says,

Maury Povich? You are... NOT the father.

Also, Bill Maher went to Cornell? Who knew. Posted 09/26/2008 12:43 PMReply

Anonymous says,

Chris Berman may not be hot, but he did go to Brown Posted 09/26/2008 12:46 PMReply

Anonymous says,

didn't JFK Jr. go to Brown? Posted 09/26/2008 12:52 PMReply

Anonymous says,

The wife from Friday Night Lights went to Dartmouth. Posted 09/26/2008 12:52 PMReply

Anonymous says,

keith olberman and ann coulter went to cornell.....at the same time. go figure! Posted 09/26/2008 1:01 PMReply

Anonymous says,

Alicia Sacramone is a brown student. That should bump them ahead of Dartmouth. Posted 09/26/2008 1:03 PMReply

Anonymous says,

Jodie Foster went to Yale. Posted 09/26/2008 1:06 PMReply

Anonymous says,

JFK Jr. did go to Brown and should definitely make the list. Posted 09/26/2008 1:18 PMReply

Anonymous says,

Andrew Shue and Aisha Tyler are also Dartmouth alums. Posted 09/26/2008 1:31 PMReply

Anonymous says,

JFK Jr. did go to Brown and he basically makes up for anyone listed at Princeton and down. A lot of celebrities' hot kids went to Brown, including Eva Amurri, Donatella Versace's daughter, Chris Berman's kids, etc.

Brown University was proooobably the best time ever... Posted 09/26/2008 1:41 PMReply

Anonymous says,

Jim from the office went to brown, and I think Mindy went to Dartmouth.
The Harvard girls, especially Natalie and Rashida, are way hotter than the Columbia ones and drop outs shouldn't count! Posted 09/26/2008 2:42 PMReply

Anonymous says,

If you think Brown was the best time ever, you need to leave the Yacht club and try to go to college somewhere that doesn't require scarves and polo shirts with alligators on them. Come to a school where you aren't judged on who you're parents are and everyone just parties. God D*mn yuppy bast*rds.. Posted 09/26/2008 2:59 PMReply

Anonymous says,

Alicia Sacramone from Brown. That makes them better than Dartmouth, at least, and probably Cornell as well. Posted 09/26/2008 3:20 PMReply

Anonymous says,

Andy from the office went to Cornell. Or at least he did in the show Posted 09/26/2008 6:26 PMReply

Anonymous says,

Pam Crikelair from the Golf Channel's Big Break III and Diana Taylor (Mayor Bloomberg's current significant other) are both Dartmouth grads. Posted 09/26/2008 8:01 PMReply

Anonymous says,

Laura Ingraham for Dartmouth. Posted 09/26/2008 8:16 PMReply

Anonymous says,

Lisa Loeb (she was kinda hot) went to Brown Posted 09/26/2008 9:03 PMReply

Anonymous says,

Yale alumni missed:
Jennifer Beals
Angela Bassett
Liev Schreiber (anybody who can hold on to Naomi Watts has got to be hot)
Anderson Cooper
Kellie Martin
Ari Meyers (perhaps you're too young to remember "Kate & Allie")

And since you listed Meryl Streep, I'll add other Yale School of Drama post-grads:
Sigourney Weaver
David Duchovny
Chris Noth
Courtney B.Vance
Henry Winkler
Paul Newman

Looks like blowout to me Posted 09/26/2008 10:38 PMReply

Anonymous says,

Ed Marinaro went to Cornell (Minnesota Vikings, NY Jets, Laverne and Shirley, Hill St. Blues) Posted 09/26/2008 10:41 PMReply

Anonymous says,

Traci Bingham went to Harvard? Am I the only one shocked by this? They must have lowered their standards. Actually, they must have upped it since she applied because I didn't get in with a 32 ACT and 3.85 GPA. Posted 09/26/2008 10:43 PMReply

Anonymous says,

LOL at 2:59 calling Brown students yuppies Posted 09/26/2008 11:17 PMReply

Anonymous says,

James Franco went to UCLA. Posted 09/27/2008 03:10 AMReply

Anonymous says,

You missed some for Princeton - Kate Bosworth Posted 09/27/2008 10:13 AMReply

Anonymous says,

I have to agree that Alicia Sacramone raises Brown's hotness factor a number of notches. I pick her as the first 2008 Olympian to have a sex tape surface on the web! Posted 09/27/2008 2:02 PMReply

Anonymous says,

Stephen Colbert went to Dartmouth. How is that 7? Posted 09/27/2008 4:35 PMReply

Anonymous says,

Hank Paulson and Jeff Immelt went to Dartmouth. In today's world those guys are bigger and hotter than any tinseltown wanna be. Posted 09/28/2008 04:36 AMReply

Anonymous says,

Stephen Colbert went to Hampton-Sydney and Northwestern. Neither are Ivies. Posted 09/28/2008 2:24 PMReply

Anonymous says,

colbert did NOT go to dartmouth...you must an alum who got taken in by a recent DAM issue... Posted 09/28/2008 2:32 PMReply

Anonymous says,

but i would definitely describe most female dartmouth grads as the "smart and interesting" type and not "hot"... Posted 09/28/2008 2:34 PMReply

Anonymous says,

Add Laura Linney to the Brown list. Posted 09/28/2008 3:33 PMReply

Anonymous says,

I don't know if you ever saw a movie called "The GLass House", but Leelee Sobieski walks around for half the movie in a tank-top and panties. Watch it, then re-evaluate. Posted 09/28/2008 4:31 PMReply

Anonymous says,

Colbert's fictional persona, Dr. Stephen T. Colbert, D.F.A. went to Dartmouth. The real-life Colbert, as mentioned above, did not. Posted 09/28/2008 5:39 PMReply

Anonymous says,

John Krasinski - The Office
Brown University
There is no way they should be last.

And if the poster has to stretch and add Maury Povich, they obviously didn't do enough research. Posted 09/28/2008 6:32 PMReply

Anonymous says,

Didn't blossom go to Harvard? Posted 09/29/2008 05:23 AMReply

Anonymous says,

Who forgets that Dartmouth is Ivy League? Bill Asher â��84 is the owner and president of Vivid video. It doesn't get much hotter than a bunch of porn stars..... Posted 09/29/2008 10:58 AMReply

Anonymous says,

Seriously. I agree with the poster above. John Krasinski! Posted 09/30/2008 01:43 AMReply

Anonymous says,

Alicia Sacramone, JFK Jr., the girl who plays Kati on Gossip Girl, and HIRO from heroes all went to Brown Posted 11/11/2008 9:55 PMReply

Anonymous says,

john krasinski (jim on the office) went to brown Posted 11/12/2008 02:37 AMReply

Anonymous says,

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http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1290201249&ref=profile#/profile.php?id=1290201249&v=info&viewas=1290201249 Posted 11/14/2008 05:43 AMReply