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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They called Amherst, Williams, and Wesleyan the Little 3 due to a football rivalry over 100 years ago (a contrast to the big 3 HYP football powerhouses of the time).
In the last 30 or so years, people sometimes refer to Amherst, Swarthmore, and Williams together in that way due to college rankings. They are the only 3 SLACs to be ranked #1 multiple times by UNSWR (Williams has also never been ranked below #3 and Swarthmore and Amherst have never been ranked below #4).
"Little Ivy" is just something people write to get clicks or sell magazines! [/quote]

It's a marketing ploy by the college prep industry.  "HYP", "Ivy plus", "little ivy", etc., are the brands they peddle. Don't let their marketing and business profits determine your worldview and your children's education.[/quote]

+1
Most mentions of the Ivy League in general don't make a lot of sense from a normal student or employer perspective. Yes, they are a sports conference of strong universities but schools like Dartmouth, Harvard, and Cornell are so different. On the west coast, many people dream of a few schools in the Pac 12 (Stanford, Cal, UCLA) but no one refers to the conference! Ivy League grads also almost never mention the Ivy League outside of football or the time leading up to the NCAA tourney; they refer to the few schools they are actually referencing by name). I've never heard a Little 3 alum use that term beyond the sports context either (it is clearly a thing in athletics though Amherst and Williams care more about their head-to-head rivalry now).[/quote]

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