Which colleges are considered the "Little Ivies"?
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Anonymous
Nah, i wanted something to counter the ridiculous Ivy Plus label. Like schools that are clearly not in the Ivy discussion but still want to have an Ivy tag. |
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The Little Ivies are an unofficial group of small, academically competitive private liberal arts colleges in the Northeastern United States. The term Little Ivy derives from these schools' small student bodies, standards of academic excellence, associated historic social prestige, and highly selective admissions comparable to the Ivy League. According to Bloomberg, the Little Ivies are also known for their large financial endowments, both absolutely and relative to their size.
List of Little Ivies A 2016 article by Bloomberg Businessweek lists the members of the Little Ivies as:[9] Amherst College Bates College Bowdoin College Bucknell University Colby College Colgate University Connecticut College Hamilton College Haverford College Lafayette College Middlebury College Swarthmore College Trinity College Tufts University Union College Vassar College Wesleyan University Williams College https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Ivies |
Anonymous
Sure Karen |
Anonymous
People associate Williams and Amherst with Wesleyan? Really? Wesleyan is several tiers lower and doesn’t really excel at…much. That's not true. Wesleyan excels in physics, for example. If you had researched the school you would know this. Why are you dissing a school you know nothing about? No more than any other top liberal arts college- Wesleyan is ranked 24th for Physics PhD admissions (https://www.collegetransitions.com/dataverse/top-feeders-phd-programs#physics), hasn’t had a student receive an Apker award since 2010, has pretty few faculty in physics for a program with a BA, MA, PHD (https://www.wesleyan.edu/physics/people/index.html), and generally doesn’t seem at the level of Harvey Mudd, Carleton, Haverford, Swarthmore, or Williams for Physics. |
Anonymous
You do realize that the term little ivies has been around for over 80 years. Long before the rankings nonsense that you so adore. What is ridiculous is your fascination with an athletic conference. If that conference didn’t exist these are the schools which the ivies with the exception of Cornell would be compared with. Cornell would be compared to Syracuse, Rochester, and Lehigh as it was Before the Ivy League. |
Anonymous
It was originally coined in the fifties. It is very real and refers to the undergraduate only analogs to the Ivy League. 5 minutes of reasearch and you wouldn’t all be proving yourselves to be dim fools. Agree or not littles ivies is long established. |
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+1 |
Anonymous
+1, Wesleyan is really not anyone’s preference these days other than students who can’t get into Williams/Amherst/Swarthmore/Wellesley. |
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this list is weird and bizarrely east coast centric.
Pomona? If you're adding places like Haverford and Hamilton, then add Grinnell, Carleton, Mac, and Davidson .. which are all in the same league if not a step higher. It's WASP for a reason, still. With Bowdoin and Midd nipping at their heels based on QOL on campus and career outcomes. Then the rest of the cast of characters. |
Anonymous
Is Wellesley so highly regarded? |
Anonymous
| Nice way to make yourself feel better when you don’t get into any Ivy.. |
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Yes |
Anonymous
Little Ivy+ |
Anonymous
As is the Ivy League. People who understand the concept of Little Ivies have not been naming undergraduate-focused colleges simply for their academic excellence. |
Anonymous
Midd? No way; it’s on decline. Carleton, Davidson, CMC, Harvey Mudd over Midd. Midd = Haverford, Hamilton, Colby. |