<p>Everyone always refers to the NESCAC (New England Small College Athletic Conference) schools as the "Little Ivies". So I was wondering, Which are the corresponding schools? For example, which is the "Harvard of NESCAC"? Obviously this is all opinion and just for fun, but I was curious to see what others thought. Ivy consists of Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, UPenn, Princeton, and Yale. NESCAC consists of 11 schools (Amherst, Bates, Bowdoin, Colby, Connecticut College, Hamilton, Middlebury, Trinity, Tufts, Wesleyan, and Williams) but I'm only including the top 9, to make this easier (Sorry Trinity and Connecticut College). So below is my table. Give me your thoughts. </p>
<p>Harvard = Williams
Princeton = Amherst (both have the "old boy" network)
Yale = Middlebury (Midd was actually founded by a former Yale President)
University of Pennsylvania = Bowdoin (Great school that everyone always forgets) Columbia = Wesleyan (Most liberal of both conferences)
Dartmouth = Hamilton
Cornell = Bates (Great school nagged by its reputation as one of the easiest to get in within the conference)
Brown = Tufts or Colby (not entirely sure why, just feels right)</p>
<p>Again, no offense intended, Please don't attack me for creating this fun game.</p>
<p>I was actually thinking about this too. I tend to associate the schools together more in ranking and size than personality, though.</p>
<p>Harvard = Williams
Yale = Amherst
Princeton = Swarthmore
(HYP = AWS)</p>
<p>UPenn = Middlebury
Columbia = Bowdoin</p>
<p>Dartmouth = Hamilton
Cornell = Tufts
Brown = Wesleyan</p>
<p>I’ve always thought of the Ivies as the Big Three, the middle schools (UPenn/Columbia), then the three “lower Ivies”, as I’ve heard them called.</p>
<p>this is cute, but OP forgot swat ;)</p>
<p>HYP=WAS (in that order)
geographically it makes sense that yale=amherst, and pton=swat, since H and Y and williams and amherst are in new england</p>
<p>and as you said, williams is the “harvard” of the little ivies because it’s just that awesome :D</p>
<p>Columbia = Tufts.
Cornell = Bowdoin.</p>
<p>How do you count in Swarthmore and not Haverford? I would say Amherst is the most similar to Brown due to their open courses their students can take; Williams is a bit more stricter than Amherst but is a good math/science school as well as humanities school, hence it is more similar to Princeton…you could argue Harvard if you can’t ignore their ranks…I heard Cornell has the lowest grade inflation in Ivies so I would compare it to Swarthmore and Haverford–both schools are quaker found–any similarities in Ivies? We should add Caltech, MIT, and Stanford since they’re actually better than Ivies in many other categories. Speaking of Ivies, they sound like Titans! The Clash of Ivies–Titans! TOTALLY RANDOM I KNW</p>