Yale Model Congress Yale Model Congress Yale Model Congress (YMC) is the oldest entirely student-run Model Congress association in the Ivy League. Every year, it brings hundreds of delegates to Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut to simulate the United States Congress. Founded in 1993 by members of the Yale Political Union, Yale Model Congress is an annual, four-day-long event, now held in early December. During the conference, high school delegates participate in one of approximately thirty committees, chaired by Yale undergraduates. The delegates prepare bills prior to the conference, and each student is given the chance to debate his or her bill
Ivy League School), Barack Obama (Columbia undergrad, Harvard Law School), and Donald Trump (Penn undergrad). Of the 44 men who have served as President of the United States, 16 have graduated from an Ivy League university. Of them, eight have degrees from Harvard, five from Yale, three from Columbia, two from Princeton and one from Penn. Twelve presidents have earned Ivy undergraduate degrees. Three of these were transfer students: Donald Trump transferred from Fordham University, Barack Obama transferred from Occidental College and John F. Kennedy transferred from another Ivy, Princeton, where he had been class of 1939. John Adams was the first