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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The NESCAC or New England Small College Athletic Conference is a NCAA Division 3 athletic conference of 11 highly selective liberal arts colleges: Amherst, Williams, Wesleyan, Bates, Bowdoin, Colby, Connecticut, Hamilton, Middlebury, Trinity, and Tufts. There are rules regarding season length, number of contests and post-season competition. There are no athletic scholarships; financial aid is solely based on need.

The “Little Ivies” is not an official term or group. It refers to a small group of highly selective liberal arts colleges. The list includes all the colleges in the NESCAC , along with Colgate, Haverford, Swarthmore, and Vassar. Also note that Tufts is no longer a small, Liberal Arts College, but has become a larger research university.

As you can see, all of the colleges listed above are highly selective, very difficult to get into, and are highly regarded.[/quote]

Remember, as well, that the Ivy League itself is not the Good Housekeeping Seal of the Pinnacle of Academic Excellence.  It  is, just like NESCAC, an athletic organization of universities which are as dissimilar as they are similar.  And the experience at Trinity or Connecticut College will be different from Amherst or Williams.  Find schools that work for your student and capture his/her heart.  [/quote]

Well said.  The thing that separates the super elite from the mere elite in the Top 25 is endowment per student. Princeton is the only school with endowment of more than $2million per student.  Harvard, Yale and Stanford are all well north of a million.  The other Top 25 school with an endowment greater than $1 million? Pomona https://colleges.niche.com/rankings/best-overall/methodology/

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