Anonymous wrote:PP has clearly never been to Hanover.

PP clearly does not know what a university is.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The little ivies/little three are actually Wesleyan, Amherst, and Williams.

Yes

Yeah but way to ID yourself as a still striving boomer!

DP. Well-known in academic circles, not strivers.

Anonymous wrote:PP has clearly never been to Hanover.

It's very similar to Amherst.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The little ivies/little three are actually Wesleyan, Amherst, and Williams.

Yes

Yeah but way to ID yourself as a still striving boomer!

Anonymous wrote:The little ivies/little three are actually Wesleyan, Amherst, and Williams.

Yes

The little ivies/little three are actually Wesleyan, Amherst, and Williams.

PP has clearly never been to Hanover.

Anonymous wrote:Dartmouth is commonly known as a "big SLAC".

Yes because it is exactly like an SLAC,

- except it has graduate colleges
- and is an R1 research facility
- and has several undergraduate colleges with different admissions standards, one of which is a liberal arts college, as nearly every university has

...meaning it is nothing like an LAC. At all.

That is actually a term…

Dartmouth is commonly known as a "big SLAC".

Some are in the top 25:

• Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education U.S. College Rankings 2022

• TOP 100

1 Harvard University Massachusetts
2 Stanford University California
3 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
4 Yale University Connecticut
5 Duke University North Carolina
6 Brown University Rhode Island
7 California Institute of Technology California
8 Princeton University New Jersey
=9 Johns Hopkins University Maryland
=9 Northwestern University Illinois
11 Cornell University New York
12 University of Pennsylvania Pennsylvania
13 Dartmouth College New Hampshire
14 The University of Chicago Illinois
15 Vanderbilt University Tennessee
16 Columbia University New York
17 Washington University in St Louis Missouri
18 Rice University Texas
19 University of Southern California California
20 Emory University Georgia
21 Carnegie Mellon University Pennsylvania
22 Amherst College Massachusetts
23 Williams College Massachusetts
24 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Michigan
25 Pomona College California
26 New York University New York
27 University of California, Los Angeles California
28 University of Notre Dame Indiana
29 Swarthmore College Pennsylvania
30 Tufts University Massachusetts
31 Wellesley College Massachusetts
32 Georgetown University District of Columbia
33 The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
34 Claremont McKenna College California
35 Carleton College Minnesota
=36 University of California, Berkeley California
=36 Haverford College Pennsylvania
38 Bowdoin College Maine
39 Smith College Massachusetts
=40 University of California, Davis California
=40 Middlebury College Vermont
42 Boston University Massachusetts
=43 University of California, San Diego California
=43 Wesleyan University Connecticut
=45 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Illinois
=45 University of Washington-Seattle Washington
47 United States Military Academy New York
48 Purdue University West Lafayette Indiana
49 University of Miami Florida
50 Barnard College New York
51 Case Western Reserve University Ohio
=52 Colgate University New York
=52 University of Rochester New York
54 University of Florida Florida
=55 Mount Holyoke College Massachusetts
=55 University of Virginia (Main campus)
57 Boston College Massachusetts
=58 Hamilton College New York
=58 University of Wisconsin-Madison Wisconsin
60 University of Texas at Austin Texas
=61 Lehigh University Pennsylvania
=61 Wake Forest University North Carolina
63 University of Richmond Virginia
64 Bates College Maine
65 Vassar College New York
66 Davidson College North Carolina
67 Scripps College California
68 Bryn Mawr College Pennsylvania
=69 Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia
=69 Grinnell College Iowa
71 Tulane University Louisiana
72 George Washington University D.C.
73 Washington and Lee University Virginia
74 Santa Clara University California
75 United States Naval Academy Maryland
76 University of California, Santa Barbara California
77 Lafayette College Pennsylvania
78 William & Mary Virginia
79 Texas A&M University-College Station Texas
80 University of Maryland, College Park Maryland
=81 Bucknell University Pennsylvania
=81 Michigan State University Michigan
83 University of Pittsburgh-Pennsylvania
84 Franklin & Marshall College Pennsylvania
85 University of Minnesota Twin Cities Minnesota
86 Northeastern University Massachusetts
87 University of California, Irvine California
88 Pitzer College California
89 Macalester College Minnesota
90 Loyola Marymount University California
91 University of Illinois at Chicago Illinois
92 Reed College Oregon
93 Kenyon College Ohio
94 Southern Methodist University Texas
95 Occidental College California
96 University of the Pacific California
97 Indiana University Bloomington Indiana
98 Whitman College Washington
=99 Dickinson College Pennsylvania
=99 Ohio State University (Main Campus) Ohio

• 101-200
101 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute New York
102 Skidmore College New York
103 University of Connecticut Connecticut
=104 Trinity College Connecticut
=104 Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Virginia
106 Trinity University Texas
107 Illinois Institute of Technology Illinois
108 Rhodes College Tennessee
=109 Connecticut College Connecticut
=109 Howard University District of Columbia
111 Brandeis University Massachusetts
112 Oberlin College Ohio
113 Saint Louis University Missouri
114 Denison University Ohio
=115 Colorado College Colorado
=115 Drexel University Pennsylvania
=117 College of the Holy Cross Massachusetts
=117 North Carolina State University North Carolina
=117 Syracuse University New York
120 DePauw University Indiana
121 Worcester Polytechnic Institute Massachusetts
=122 Gettysburg College Pennsylvania
=122 Seattle University Washington
124 University at Buffalo New York
125 Stony Brook University New York
=126 Babson College Massachusetts
=126 Spelman College Georgia
=128 University of Denver Colorado
=128 Simmons University Massachusetts
=128 Villanova University Pennsylvania
131 University of Arizona Arizona
132 Bentley University Massachusetts
133 University of Utah Utah
134 Union College New York
135 Rhode Island School of Design Rhode Island
=136 Drake University Iowa
=136 Rutgers University-New Brunswick New Jersey
=138 American University District of Columbia
=138 Brigham Young University-Provo Utah
=138 Yeshiva University New York
=141 University of Massachusetts Amherst Massachusetts
=141 Penn State (Main campus) Pennsylvania
=143 Creighton University Nebraska
=143 Elon University North Carolina
=143 University of Georgia Georgia
=143 Thomas Jefferson University Pennsylvania
147 Willamette University Oregon
148 Berea College Kentucky
149 Furman University South Carolina
=150 St Olaf College Minnesota
=150 The College of Wooster Ohio
=152 University of Delaware Delaware
=152 University of San Diego California
=154 The Catholic University of America D.C.
=154 Rochester Institute of Technology New York
=154 University of San Francisco California
=154 Texas Christian University Texas
=158 Chapman University California
=158 Virginia Military Institute Virginia
=160 Hobart and William Smith New York
=160 Linfield College - Oregon
=160 Wheaton College (Massachusetts)
163 SUNY Binghamton University New York
=164 Allegheny College Pennsylvania
=164 Marquette University Wisconsin
=166 Muhlenberg College Pennsylvania
=166 Temple University Pennsylvania
168 Lawrence University Wisconsin
169 University of Iowa Iowa
170 Baylor University Texas
171 Fordham University New York
172 Kalamazoo College Michigan
=173 Florida State University Florida
=173 Wheaton College (Illinois) Illinois
=175 Pepperdine University California
=175 Ursinus College Pennsylvania
=177 Loyola University Chicago Illinois
=177 New Jersey Institute of Technology New Jersey
=179 George Mason University Virginia
=179 The University of Tulsa Oklahoma
181 Stevens Institute of Technology New Jersey
=182 Clemson University South Carolina
=182 University of Colorado Boulder Colorado
=184 University of California, Riverside California
=184 Colorado School of Mines Colorado
=184 Samford University Alabama
187 University of Portland Oregon
188 SUNY University at Albany New York
189 California Polytechnic State University
=190 Fairfield University Connecticut
=190 Sewanee-The University of the South Tennessee
=192 Beloit College Wisconsin
=192 Gonzaga University Washington
=192 Lake Forest College Illinois
=192 Missouri University of Science and Technology
=192 St Lawrence University New York
=197 California Institute of the Arts California
=197 Saint Mary’s College of California California
=197 Westmont College California
=200 Bradley University Illinois
=200 Sarah Lawrence College New York

How dare you call them little ivy

yes I think these are called Small liberal arts colleges

There’s no such thing as a Little Ivy.

Have the ED apps kept increasing?

Amherst & Williams, in past years, released ED decisions on the 2nd Friday of December.

If this continues, that means this Friday 12/9.

Recent Amherst Early Decision Stats -
Class of 2026: 878 app, 213 adm (24%)
Class of 2025: 857 app, 214 adm (25%)
Class of 2024: 598 app, 190 adm (32%)