Which colleges are considered the "Little Ivies"?
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Anonymous
+1 Wesleyan is 3 tiers below real Ivies |
Anonymous
Williams, Amherst, & Wesleyan were clumped together as the “Little 3” for decades. |
Anonymous
It doesn't appear as if you understand the topic. |
Anonymous
| These are terms really only meant to apply to NESCAC schools in the northeast and so it leaves out plenty of great schools in the rest of the country (i.e. Swarthmore, Haverford, Davidson, Pomona, Grinnell, Carlton). As someone else noted, the Seven Sisters are their own thing and they still carry old school prestige. But the Little Ivies have historically been Amherst, Williams, Bates, Bowdoin, Colby, Tufts, Middlebury, Wesleyan, Trinity, and Hamilton. |
Anonymous
| Which schools are little SEC? These labels are dumb. |
Anonymous
That’s the wrong W. It was always Williams, Amherst and Wellesley. Now it’s WASP, without Wellesley and deftly without Wesleyan |
Anonymous
| Based on its enrollment and university structure, I wouldn't consider Tufts to be a Little Ivy,, irrespective of its NESCAC membership. |
Anonymous
There is no such thing. Parents need to stop making up excuses about their kid not being able to get into an Ivy by creating ridiculous stupid meaningless names like New ivies….or little ivies….or state ivies….or blablabla ivies…. PLEASE |
Anonymous
Yes. 50k apps for 1,400 spots. One with medical school; 3% RD appearance rate and test required, You can tell who was rejected by these types of posts… |
Anonymous
| ^*acceptance |
Anonymous
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It’s ironic the same people trashing any of the 8 Ivies so desperately want to have the label Ivy:
Southern Ivy, Little Ivy, Public Ivy …. |
Anonymous
THIS |
Anonymous
Yeah. It has a 17% acceptance rate and it’s TEST OPTIONAL. Ivies are 3-5% and with the exception of Princeton: test REQUIRED. |
Anonymous
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There are no "little" Ivies and there are no "public" Ivies.
There are Ivies and there are a ton of truly excellent colleges but they do not need a fake Ivy moniker for this to be recognised. |
Anonymous
| Shouldn’t the Ivies label just go away? Many families no longer care about these silly status labels. And for people who do care, they really only want HYP. The other Ivies are not as desirable in prestige as M, S and Duke. |