By historical (~1960) academic standards, Hamilton – along with other LACs Amherst, Williams, Swarthmore, Haverford, Reed, Carleton, Oberlin – could be found amid Ivy League colleges (in Hamilton’s case, below four, equivalent to three and above one) as grouped in the Life article linked below. Hamilton’s softest modern decade with respect to admission probably occurred in the 1990s, an aspect that may influence the perspectives of some of the parents who post on CC.