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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]much in the same way the williams and amherst boosters luv to compare their schools against HYP in a failed effort to make them seem like pseudo peers, the Bowdoin Pomona and Middlebury boosters luv to punch up and ridiculously compare themselves to A & W.  It’s the DCUM striver culture at its best (or worst), always wanting to make their situation seem better..[/quote]
These are both weird comparisons. No William person is comparing themselves to Princeton, because they're different schools, and it isn't unreasonable to compare top lacs to Williams and Amherst, because they're all objectively peers of one another:
Williams College list of peers | [quote]	
        Amherst College (Amherst, MA)
	Bowdoin College (Brunswick, ME)
	Carleton College (Northfield, MN)
	Dartmouth College (Hanover, NH)
	Grinnell College (Grinnell, IA)
	Haverford College (Haverford, PA)
	Middlebury College (Middlebury, VT)
	Pomona College (Claremont, CA)
	Swarthmore College (Swarthmore, PA)
	Wesleyan University (Middletown, CT)
[/quote]
Source: https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/dfr/2023/ReportHTML.aspx?unitId=168342

Amherst College list of Peers | [quote]
	Bates College (Lewiston, ME)
	Bowdoin College (Brunswick, ME)
	Bryn Mawr College (Bryn Mawr, PA)
	Carleton College (Northfield, MN)
	Claflin University (Orangeburg, SC)
	Concordia College at Moorhead (Moorhead, MN)
	Connecticut College (New London, CT)
	Davidson College (Davidson, NC)
	Dickinson College (Carlisle, PA)
	Drew University (Madison, NJ)
	Eckerd College (Saint Petersburg, FL)
	Emmanuel College (Boston, MA)
	Franklin and Marshall College (Lancaster, PA)
	Gustavus Adolphus College (Saint Peter, MN)
	Hamilton College (Clinton, NY)
	Kenyon College (Gambier, OH)
	Luther College (Decorah, IA)
	Occidental College (Los Angeles, CA)
	Pomona College (Claremont, CA)
	Rhodes College (Memphis, TN)
	Roanoke College (Salem, VA)
	Saint Anselm College (Manchester, NH)
	Saint Norbert College (De Pere, WI)
	St Lawrence University (Canton, NY)
	The College of Wooster (Wooster, OH)
	The University of the South (Sewanee, TN)
	Trinity College (Hartford, CT)
	Union College (Schenectady, NY)
	University of Puget Sound (Tacoma, WA)
	Washington and Lee University (Lexington, VA)
	Williams College (Williamstown, MA)
	Wofford College (Spartanburg, SC)[/quote]
Source: https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/dfr/2023/ReportHTML.aspx?unitId=164465

Pomona College list of peers| [quote]
        Amherst College (Amherst, MA)
	Carleton College (Northfield, MN)
	Oberlin College (Oberlin, OH)
	Swarthmore College (Swarthmore, PA)
	Trinity College (Hartford, CT)
	Wesleyan University (Middletown, CT)
	Williams College (Williamstown, MA)
[/quote]
Source: https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/dfr/2023/ReportHTML.aspx?unitId=121345

These are all according to the schools themselves[/quote]

It's worth noting that Amherst did not select those peers. IPEDS selected those colleges because Amherst didn't respond to the question.

Bowdoin selected these peers:
Amherst College (Amherst, MA)
Bates College (Lewiston, ME)
Brown University (Providence, RI)
Carleton College (Northfield, MN)
Claremont McKenna College (Claremont, CA)
Colby College (Waterville, ME)
Colgate University (Hamilton, NY)
Dartmouth College (Hanover, NH)
Davidson College (Davidson, NC)
Grinnell College (Grinnell, IA)
Hamilton College (Clinton, NY)
Harvey Mudd College (Claremont, CA)
Haverford College (Haverford, PA)
Middlebury College (Middlebury, VT)
Pomona College (Claremont, CA)
Smith College (Northampton, MA)
Swarthmore College (Swarthmore, PA)
Tufts University (Medford, MA)
Vassar College (Poughkeepsie, NY)
Washington and Lee University (Lexington, VA)
Wellesley College (Wellesley, MA)
Wesleyan University (Middletown, CT)
Williams College (Williamstown, MA)

Middlebury selected these peers:
Amherst College (Amherst, MA)
Bates College (Lewiston, ME)
Bowdoin College (Brunswick, ME)
Bryn Mawr College (Bryn Mawr, PA)
Carleton College (Northfield, MN)
Colby College (Waterville, ME)
Connecticut College (New London, CT)
Hamilton College (Clinton, NY)
Haverford College (Haverford, PA)
Mount Holyoke College (South Hadley, MA)
Oberlin College (Oberlin, OH)
Pomona College (Claremont, CA)
Smith College (Northampton, MA)
Swarthmore College (Swarthmore, PA)
Trinity College (Hartford, CT)
Vassar College (Poughkeepsie, NY)
Washington and Lee University (Lexington, VA)
Wellesley College (Wellesley, MA)
Wesleyan University (Middletown, CT)
Williams College (Williamstown, MA)[/quote]
You can tell who is truly elite and who wants to prestige chase. Williams and Pomona select very few peers, while these other colleges call everyone their peers.[/quote]

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