Ivy League & NESCAC

Weston
Fri, 02 Apr 2010 15:43:05 +0000

O.K. I’ll play.

Williams - Yale
Amherst - Harvard (the H/Y and Williams/Amherst rivalries seem comparable. It seems that Williams & Yale are more NY, with each having a club in NY and Harvard & to less of an extent Amherst are more Boston. In any event I see Williams vs Amherst as Harvard vs Yale).
Hamilton - Brown (I based this on each having open an curriculum).
Middlebury - Dartmouth (These two seem closer than any other pairing. Maybe it is a northern New England thing, but they seem like similar schools and I would think many common applicants.) I’ll also add Colby to this group as I see some similarities there, also.
Bowdoin - Princeton (They both just seem to have a pre-professional student type feel to them. I certainly mean this in a positive way).
Wesleyan - Columbia (I will stick with the OP’s thought process) I will also place Bates in this category.
Trinity- Penn (Inner city feel)
Cornell - Tufts (There is the largest undergraduate population in their respective conferences at these schools). I will also add Connecticut College to this group.

I know I broke the rules a bit by including all the NESCAC schools, but I did not like the idea of omitting two outstanding schools from the game.