<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 definitely agree with Brown=Tufts rather than Tufts with another school. They both emphasize small barriers between departments (IE. If you apply as a history major but decide to become an engineer… GO FOR IT!). They’re also pretty similar in size (~5500 vs. ~5000). I don’t really know about the other ones but since you said you weren’t entirely sure so I gave some reasoning :)</p>
<p>Where would Wellesley go if it was NESCAC?</p>
<p>Cornell = TRINITY (Great school nagged by its reputation as one of the easiest to get in within the conference)
Brown = Tufts (i honestly feel like they are the same school, their campuses are even similar, i think the only difference is that kids at brown probably got 70-100 pts higher on the SAT on average, lol)</p>
<p>agree with the rest of them, but Middlebury and Yale? don’t really see that.</p>
<p>^^
But kids at Brown also got in with lower on the SAT on average, according to College Navigator: [National</a> Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Home Page, a part of the U.S. Department of Education](<a href=“http://nces.ed.gov%5DNational”>http://nces.ed.gov) :)</p>
<p>TUFTS:
[College</a> Navigator - Tufts University](<a href=“College Navigator - Search Results”>College Navigator - Tufts University)
SAT CR 680 750
SAT Math 680 790
SAT Writing 680 760</p>
<p>BROWN:
[College</a> Navigator - Brown University](<a href=“College Navigator - Search Results”>College Navigator - Brown University)
SAT CR 650 760
SAT Math 670 770
SAT Writing 670 770</p>
<p>Midd was founded by a former Midd president. Both schools are among the top three or four in their conference. Both schools seem to care more about academics and learning opportunities than rankings. Both beautiful campuses in less than perfect locations.</p>
<p>Founded by a former Yale prez, not Midd Prez.</p>
<p>I guess it depends what you prefer, but Middlebury, Vermont and New Haven, Connecticut are two VERY different places. While Middlebury may be a less than perfect location if you’re into city life, it’s a perfect location if you want to be somewhere more rural. I don’t think New Haven’s perfect for anyone, though…</p>
<p>I’d go-
Harvard= Amherst
Yale= Williams
Princeton=Amherst
Dartmouth=Bowdoin
Columbia=Wesleyan, but Brown fits, too.
Cornell= Tufts
UPenn=Middlebury</p>
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<p>Amherst is sooooo great that it’s both Harvard AND Princeton!!!</p>
<p>Amherst is really stodgy and elite, and no other NESCAC school can match Harvard or Princeton in that sense.</p>
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Williams matches (and perhaps exceeds) Amherst in that metric. You already have them on there once, though.
And Columbia/Wesleyan? Wesleyan is way more alike to Brown. I’d say Tufts most closely matches Penn (maybe Brown), although I guess in terms of size it’s way larger than the rest of the NESCAC schools, which I think Cornell is to the Ivys.</p>
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<p>When did Reed move to Vermont? ROTFL.</p>
<p>Tufts most similar to Brown and Penn–in demographic and iconoclasm. Cornell seems to have a very different social sensibility than that of Tufts, not to mention its geographic removal.</p>
<p>Tufts = Penn. Not enough suicides at Tufts for it to be Cornell (and I don’t mean this perjoratively – Cornell is notoriously a pressure cooker which I don’t believe Tufts is).</p>