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Among the Little Ivies are the "Little Three", a term used by Amherst College, Wesleyan University and Williams College, and "Maine Big Three", a term used by Bates College, Bowdoin College, and Colby College. The term is inspired by the "Big Three" Ivy League athletic rivalry between Harvard, Princeton, and Yale. [11] [12]
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The Little Ivies: a grouping of small liberal arts colleges, also in the Northeastern United States, comparable to Ivy League universities; The Colby-Bates-Bowdoin Consortium: three small liberal arts colleges known as the "Maine Big Three" The Little Three: three small liberal arts colleges in Massachusetts and Connecticut comparable to the ...
Black Ivy League—informal list of private historically black colleges and universities that have historically been seen as the African American equivalent to the Ivy League; Little Ivies—private liberal arts colleges that historically have had the same social prestige and similar large financial endowments as the Ivy league.
In the first college admissions process since the Supreme Court struck down affirmative action last year, Asian American enrollment at the most prestigious U.S. schools paints a mixed, uneven picture.
By extension, in informal parlance, schools that are thought to be comparable in some way to the schools of the Ivy League are sometimes referred to as "Ivies." Contributors occasionally submit articles on topics such as Public Ivies, Jesuit Ivy, Little Ivies, "Southern Ivies," etc.
Before the American Civil War, Union College was one of a "big four" along with Harvard, Yale and Princeton. Student attrition due to the Civil War and a scandal over college finances led to a decline at Union that caused it to lose ground and drop from the group.
The term first appeared in the Public Ivies: A Guide to America's Best Public Undergraduate Colleges and Universities, published in 1985. [1] The author, Richard Moll, graduated with a master's degree from Yale University in 1959, and served as an admissions officer as well as a director of admissions at several universities in the United States. [9]