Which colleges are considered the "Little Ivies"?
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Anonymous
The user asked a question and it wasn’t about someone trying to create “false prestige” relative to 8 very different schools who happen to be in an athletic conference. The team “little Ivy” was coined at least 80 years ago, long before rankings became a thing. It was first used soon after the Ivy League itself was formed in 1954 and was specifically coined in reference to a set of schools who provided an education equal to the Ivies but were lesser known because of their size and focus on undergraduate education. I know that it makes some people on DCUM butt hurt to be confronted with the fact that that before rise of the nonsense these schools were considered equal to the Ivies but they were. And, they still are for undergraduate education whether they want to admit it or not. |
Anonymous
The 2200 people in a short (and very profitable) summer program should not be considered fulltime students for calculating endowment per student or as spending per student during the regular term. If you are too dense to understand that you are hopeless. |
Anonymous
OMFG you are dense, just dense. You should probably stay away from adult conversations. |
Anonymous
Endowment money is usually geared to a specific purpose. It will be calculated in — until it’s used. Regardless, Colby still doesn’t have the endowment to compete with the big boys. You don’t seem to realize that it matters when a school has 3x the per capita endowment of Midd. It matters in all sorts of ways… |
Anonymous
I’m sure that is exactly what people were thinking back in 1955 when the term was first coined. It’s time for Karen to stop day drinking and taker her meds. |
Anonymous
Raising their endowment is important to them I am sure but your math is quickly falling off. Middlebury’s endowment per student already surpasses Cornell and Columbia. In two years when they are finished shedding MIIS it will surpass Hamilton in the NESCAC as well as Brown and probably Penn. I think that they will be ok. |
Anonymous
So MIIS was a problem and was taking resources from the community? You people change your story every minute. |
Anonymous
Honey, we don’t want them to be the same as the Ivy League. That would be a step down darling and we aren’t good with that. |
Anonymous
If that is what you say then you would be 100% wrong because by your thinking Princeton would be about 20x as good Goddard’s as Columbia or Cornell and does that really make any sense? |
Anonymous
| It is a sports league but we all know it symbolizes much more, otherwise we’d be discussing little big ten’s and the like. |
Anonymous
Why is their raising endowment important? I thought you were saying it wasn’t. In terms of math “falling off”, yes, they only need a $280 million donation in the next two years to equal Hamilton’s per capita. Maybe you could help? |
Anonymous
Yes it does. If you're an undergrad at Princeton, you have it made. I'm not sure why you think otherwise, other than being very stubborn in opinion. |
Anonymous
Name one, an actual one where Williams, Amherst, and Bowdoin provide opportunities significantly different than at Hamilton, Middlebury, Wesleyan, or Colby? I used to work at one of the schools in the list. I also spent time at CMC so I’m pretty good in this space…..think hard, really hard and give it your best shot. We’ll be waiting. |
Anonymous
They drop 800 students from their number in two years my little friend. Raising endowments is a key goal for all of these schools. Middlebury has made no secret about wanting to move up relative to their peers. I would be surprised if there was a school in their peer list who didn’t have a capital campaign going on. It is non stop for all of them. |