Anonymous
09/21/2025 16:49
Subject: Which colleges are considered the "Little Ivies"?
Anonymous wrote:There are no "little" Ivies and there are no "public" Ivies.
There are Ivies and there are a ton of truly excellent colleges but they do not need a fake Ivy moniker for this to be recognised.[/quote
This! People are desperate]
Anonymous
09/21/2025 16:44
Subject: Re:Which colleges are considered the "Little Ivies"?
What is a little ivy (versus an ivy+)?
Anonymous
09/21/2025 16:42
Subject: Which colleges are considered the "Little Ivies"?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Is it the following? Am I missing any?
The "Little Three":
Amherst (Massachusetts)
Williams (Massachusetts)
Wesleyan (CT)
Others:
Bowdoin College (Maine)
Colby College (Maine)
Hamilton College (New York)
Haverford College (Pennsylvania)
Middlebury College (Vermont)
Swarthmore College (Pennsylvania)
Vassar (New York)
Wellesley (New York)
People associate Williams and Amherst with Wesleyan? Really? Wesleyan is several tiers lower and doesn’t really excel at…much.
Williams, Amherst, & Wesleyan were clumped together as the “Little 3” for decades.
That’s the wrong W. It was always Williams, Amherst and Wellesley. Now it’s WASP, without Wellesley and deftly without Wesleyan
NP. You don’t know what you are talking about. Williams, Wesleyan and Amherst were a thing. Times have changed, we get it, but history does not.
Exactly. Those were the original "little three ivies" period.
Just little three. Ivies is for the insecure.
Anonymous
09/21/2025 16:28
Subject: Which colleges are considered the "Little Ivies"?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Is it the following? Am I missing any?
The "Little Three":
Amherst (Massachusetts)
Williams (Massachusetts)
Wesleyan (CT)
Others:
Bowdoin College (Maine)
Colby College (Maine)
Hamilton College (New York)
Haverford College (Pennsylvania)
Middlebury College (Vermont)
Swarthmore College (Pennsylvania)
Vassar (New York)
Wellesley (New York)
People associate Williams and Amherst with Wesleyan? Really? Wesleyan is several tiers lower and doesn’t really excel at…much.
Williams, Amherst, & Wesleyan were clumped together as the “Little 3” for decades.
That’s the wrong W. It was always Williams, Amherst and Wellesley. Now it’s WASP, without Wellesley and deftly without Wesleyan
NP. You don’t know what you are talking about. Williams, Wesleyan and Amherst were a thing. Times have changed, we get it, but history does not.
Exactly. Those were the original "little three ivies" period.
These schools form the Little Three, sans Ivy. Little Ivies can only be designated unofficially. Nonetheless, historical and current published sources can be helpful in such designations.
Anonymous
09/21/2025 16:22
Subject: Which colleges are considered the "Little Ivies"?
Anonymous wrote:Which schools are little SEC? These labels are dumb.
Georgia Southern
Appalachian State
University of Memphis
Alabama Birmingham
University of North Texas
Anonymous
09/21/2025 16:17
Subject: Which colleges are considered the "Little Ivies"?
Traditionally, Little Ivies have represented purely undergraduate-focused alternatives to the Ivy League. Students can decide for themselves which approach to education suits them better.
Anonymous
09/21/2025 16:12
Subject: Which colleges are considered the "Little Ivies"?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Is it the following? Am I missing any?
The "Little Three":
Amherst (Massachusetts)
Williams (Massachusetts)
Wesleyan (CT)
Others:
Bowdoin College (Maine)
Colby College (Maine)
Hamilton College (New York)
Haverford College (Pennsylvania)
Middlebury College (Vermont)
Swarthmore College (Pennsylvania)
Vassar (New York)
Wellesley (New York)
People associate Williams and Amherst with Wesleyan? Really? Wesleyan is several tiers lower and doesn’t really excel at…much.
Williams, Amherst, & Wesleyan were clumped together as the “Little 3” for decades.
That’s the wrong W. It was always Williams, Amherst and Wellesley. Now it’s WASP, without Wellesley and deftly without Wesleyan
NP. You don’t know what you are talking about. Williams, Wesleyan and Amherst were a thing. Times have changed, we get it, but history does not.
Exactly. Those were the original "little three ivies" period.
Anonymous
09/21/2025 16:12
Subject: Which colleges are considered the "Little Ivies"?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Is it the following? Am I missing any?
The "Little Three":
Amherst (Massachusetts)
Williams (Massachusetts)
Wesleyan (CT)
Others:
Bowdoin College (Maine)
Colby College (Maine)
Hamilton College (New York)
Haverford College (Pennsylvania)
Middlebury College (Vermont)
Swarthmore College (Pennsylvania)
Vassar (New York)
Wellesley (New York)
People associate Williams and Amherst with Wesleyan? Really? Wesleyan is several tiers lower and doesn’t really excel at…much.
Williams, Amherst, & Wesleyan were clumped together as the “Little 3” for decades.
That’s the wrong W. It was always Williams, Amherst and Wellesley. Now it’s WASP, without Wellesley and deftly without Wesleyan
NP. You don’t know what you are talking about. Williams, Wesleyan and Amherst were a thing. Times have changed, we get it, but history does not.
I mean the historical facts don’t particularly help when we are asking for the current reality.
Anonymous
09/21/2025 16:05
Subject: Which colleges are considered the "Little Ivies"?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Is it the following? Am I missing any?
The "Little Three":
Amherst (Massachusetts)
Williams (Massachusetts)
Wesleyan (CT)
Others:
Bowdoin College (Maine)
Colby College (Maine)
Hamilton College (New York)
Haverford College (Pennsylvania)
Middlebury College (Vermont)
Swarthmore College (Pennsylvania)
Vassar (New York)
Wellesley (New York)
People associate Williams and Amherst with Wesleyan? Really? Wesleyan is several tiers lower and doesn’t really excel at…much.
Williams, Amherst, & Wesleyan were clumped together as the “Little 3” for decades.
That’s the wrong W. It was always Williams, Amherst and Wellesley. Now it’s WASP, without Wellesley and deftly without Wesleyan
NP. You don’t know what you are talking about. Williams, Wesleyan and Amherst were a thing. Times have changed, we get it, but history does not.
Anonymous
09/21/2025 15:52
Subject: Which colleges are considered the "Little Ivies"?
Anonymous wrote:Is it the following? Am I missing any?
The "Little Three":
Amherst (Massachusetts)
Williams (Massachusetts)
Wesleyan (CT)
Others:
Bowdoin College (Maine)
Colby College (Maine)
Hamilton College (New York)
Haverford College (Pennsylvania)
Middlebury College (Vermont)
Swarthmore College (Pennsylvania)
Vassar (New York)
Wellesley (New York)
You can’t be serious with this post.
Anonymous
09/21/2025 15:41
Subject: Re:Which colleges are considered the "Little Ivies"?
Wake Forest
Williams
Duke
Amherst
Williams
Duke
Amherst
Anonymous
09/21/2025 15:41
Subject: Which colleges are considered the "Little Ivies"?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Is it the following? Am I missing any?
The "Little Three":
Amherst (Massachusetts)
Williams (Massachusetts)
Wesleyan (CT)
Others:
Bowdoin College (Maine)
Colby College (Maine)
Hamilton College (New York)
Haverford College (Pennsylvania)
Middlebury College (Vermont)
Swarthmore College (Pennsylvania)
Vassar (New York)
Wellesley (New York)
People associate Williams and Amherst with Wesleyan? Really? Wesleyan is several tiers lower and doesn’t really excel at…much.
+1 Wesleyan is 3 tiers below real Ivies
Yeah. It has a 17% acceptance rate and it’s TEST OPTIONAL.
Ivies are 3-5% and with the exception of Princeton: test REQUIRED.
The unofficial rule of thumb: to be ivy-like, you’re the first choice for lots of applicants. I know of no one who willingly picked Wesleyan as a first choice. They all wished they got Yale or Brown or Amherst
Anonymous
09/21/2025 15:41
Subject: Which colleges are considered the "Little Ivies"?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Brown and Dartmouth
Yes. 50k apps for 1,400 spots. One with medical school[/b]; 3% RD appearance rate and test required,
You can tell who was rejected by these types of posts…
The OP simply asked a question. And both Brown and Dartmouth have a medical school.
Anonymous
09/21/2025 15:39
Subject: Re:Which colleges are considered the "Little Ivies"?
Anonymous wrote:It’s ironic the same people trashing any of the 8 Ivies so desperately want to have the label Ivy:
Southern Ivy, Little Ivy, Public Ivy ….
Maybe they aren’t the same people
Anonymous
09/21/2025 15:39
Subject: Which colleges are considered the "Little Ivies"?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Is it the following? Am I missing any?
The "Little Three":
Amherst (Massachusetts)
Williams (Massachusetts)
Wesleyan (CT)
Others:
Bowdoin College (Maine)
Colby College (Maine)
Hamilton College (New York)
Haverford College (Pennsylvania)
Middlebury College (Vermont)
Swarthmore College (Pennsylvania)
Vassar (New York)
Wellesley (New York)
People associate Williams and Amherst with Wesleyan? Really? Wesleyan is several tiers lower and doesn’t really excel at…much.
Williams, Amherst, & Wesleyan were clumped together as the “Little 3” for decades.
That’s great and all, but Wesleyan is much worse my ranked and the outcomes don’t line up. It wouldn’t be compared to Williams and Amherst today- maybe for sports?