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Anonymous

09/21/2025 20:01 Subject: Which colleges are considered the "Little Ivies"?

Anonymous wrote:My kid goes to an Ivy Minus

I think you mean Ivy Lite.

Anonymous

09/21/2025 20:00 Subject: Which colleges are considered the "Little Ivies"?

Anonymous wrote:There's a Wikipedia entry for Little Ivies. Look it up.

Did the OP set this page up? This is a ridiculous comment.

Anonymous

09/21/2025 19:59 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 ….

We are living in a world in which the Big 10 has 18 schools, the Big 12 has 16 schools, there are 2 California schools in the Atlantic Coast Conference, and a Supreme Court justice probably couldn’t tell you what a Seven SISTER was. So good luck with establishing strict guidelines on naming groups of colleges.

Anonymous

09/21/2025 19:49 Subject: Which colleges are considered the "Little Ivies"?

There's a Wikipedia entry for Little Ivies. Look it up.

Anonymous

09/21/2025 19:33 Subject: Which colleges are considered the "Little Ivies"?

I have a kid at an actual Ivy and another at different great school. I didn’t need to give it a made-up moniker, it’s okay it’s not an Ivy.

Anonymous

09/21/2025 19:28 Subject: Which colleges are considered the "Little Ivies"?

I like Ivies-minus and am just poking fun before anyone jumps on me. Lighten up!
These places need an Ivy category too:

Emory (not really Southern Ivy because its a Northern school that happens to be in ATL)
Wash U
Tufts
CMU
Case
NYU
NEU
Rice
Johns Hopkins
USC

Anonymous

09/21/2025 19:11 Subject: Which colleges are considered the "Little Ivies"?

There is no such thing. There are Ivies and then the rest. These are all great schools but you're just trying to hard calling them Ivies.

Anonymous

09/21/2025 19:08 Subject: Which colleges are considered the "Little Ivies"?

i like all these ivies categories - eventually everyone is going to some type of ivies.

Anonymous

09/21/2025 18:47 Subject: Which colleges are considered the "Little Ivies"?

My kid goes to an Ivy Minus

Anonymous

09/21/2025 18:44 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)

There is no such thing. Parents need to stop making up excuses about their kid not being able to get into an Ivy by creating ridiculous stupid meaningless names like New ivies….or little ivies….or state ivies….or blablabla ivies…. PLEASE

This 100%. Please delete this ridiculous thread.

+2
The insecurity is palpable.

Anonymous

09/21/2025 18:13 Subject: Which colleges are considered the "Little Ivies"?

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)

There is no such thing. Parents need to stop making up excuses about their kid not being able to get into an Ivy by creating ridiculous stupid meaningless names like New ivies….or little ivies….or state ivies….or blablabla ivies…. PLEASE

This 100%. Please delete this ridiculous thread.

Anonymous

09/21/2025 17:56 Subject: Which colleges are considered the "Little Ivies"?

Anonymous wrote:Forbes provided these examples recently:

"Many of the so-called Little Ivies are on this list, including Williams College in Massachusetts, which cracked the overall ranking’s top 10 for the first time this year, as well as Bowdoin College in Maine, Hamilton College in New York and Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania."

If someone unfamiliar with the term Little Ivies were to add Amherst and Wesleyan to the colleges named by Forbes, they could understand the designation by example.

Anonymous

09/21/2025 17:54 Subject: Which colleges are considered the "Little Ivies"?

People associate Williams and Amherst with Wesleyan? Really? Wesleyan is several tiers lower and doesn’t really excel at…much.

That's not true. Wesleyan excels in physics, for example. If you had researched the school you would know this. Why are you dissing a school you know nothing about?