Little Ivy Early Decision 2022: Amherst / Williams / Swarthmore

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Dartmouth is commonly known as a "big SLAC".

Yes because it is exactly like an SLAC,

- except it has graduate colleges
- and is an R1 research facility
- and has several undergraduate colleges with different admissions standards, one of which is a liberal arts college, as nearly every university has

...meaning it is nothing like an LAC. At all.

We toured Dartmouth this summer. The AO and tour guides repeatedly referred to Dartmouth as a "liberal arts college," and never as a "university."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:PP has clearly never been to Hanover.

PP clearly does not know what a university is.

You mean like Wesleyan University?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Dartmouth is commonly known as a "big SLAC".

Yes because it is exactly like an SLAC,

- except it has graduate colleges
- and is an R1 research facility
- and has several undergraduate colleges with different admissions standards, one of which is a liberal arts college, as nearly every university has

...meaning it is nothing like an LAC. At all.

We toured Dartmouth this summer. The AO and tour guides repeatedly referred to Dartmouth as a "liberal arts college," and never as a "university."

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Dartmouth is commonly known as a "big SLAC".

Yes because it is exactly like an SLAC,

- except it has graduate colleges
- and is an R1 research facility
- and has several undergraduate colleges with different admissions standards, one of which is a liberal arts college, as nearly every university has

...meaning it is nothing like an LAC. At all.

We toured Dartmouth this summer. The AO and tour guides repeatedly referred to Dartmouth as a "liberal arts college," and never as a "university."

How dare they refer to themselves as a liberal arts college? Don't they read moron PP on DCUM?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Dartmouth is commonly known as a "big SLAC".

Yes because it is exactly like an SLAC,

- except it has graduate colleges
- and is an R1 research facility
- and has several undergraduate colleges with different admissions standards, one of which is a liberal arts college, as nearly every university has

...meaning it is nothing like an LAC. At all.

We toured Dartmouth this summer. The AO and tour guides repeatedly referred to Dartmouth as a "liberal arts college," and never as a "university."

Can you define the difference between an university and an LAC?

And do definitions matter?

[Anonymous]

Go to a liberal arts college for undergrad and to a larger university for grad school. The best of all worlds

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Dartmouth is commonly known as a "big SLAC".

Yes because it is exactly like an SLAC,

- except it has graduate colleges
- and is an R1 research facility
- and has several undergraduate colleges with different admissions standards, one of which is a liberal arts college, as nearly every university has

...meaning it is nothing like an LAC. At all.

Dartmouth first year undergrad applicants are admitted to Dartmouth - regardless of prospective major or program. There isn’t any separate application process for high schoolers.

[Anonymous]

Calling those colleges Little Ivies is an insult to those colleges.

[Anonymous]

They were called Potted Ivies back in my day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They were called Potted Ivies back in my day.

That was before you could get pot everywhere.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Have the ED apps kept increasing?

Amherst & Williams, in past years, released ED decisions on the 2nd Friday of December.

If this continues, that means this Friday 12/9.

Recent Amherst Early Decision Stats -
Class of 2026: 878 app, 213 adm (24%)
Class of 2025: 857 app, 214 adm (25%)
Class of 2024: 598 app, 190 adm (32%)

Those stats are skewed bc majority of those who get in are the athletic recruits. So it gives you a false sense of hope.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Calling those colleges Little Ivies is an insult to those colleges.

Agreed. It assumes the Ivies are the best. It may be for some top students but not for many other top students

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:yes I think these are called Small liberal arts colleges

"selective liberal arts colleges," not "small"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Some are in the top 25:

• Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education U.S. College Rankings 2022

The WSJ rankings are laughable and barely get any clicks
Odd attempted dig that isn't relevant to the actual thread too!

[Anonymous]

+1
All three of the schools would cringe at the "Little Ivy" subject line.