<p>What schools constitute the small Ivies?</p>
<p>There is no strict definition that I know of.
Includes schools like:</p>
<p>Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts
Bates College in Lewiston, Maine
Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine
Colby College in Waterville, Maine
Connecticut College in New London, Connecticut
Hamilton College in Clinton, New York
Haverford College in Haverford, Pennsylvania (not in NESCAC)
Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vermont
Swarthmore College in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania (not in NESCAC)
Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut
Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts
Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut
Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts </p>
<p>maybe Colgate in Hamilton, NY</p>
<p>Other than the jesuit tradition, where does Fordham stand on the national spectrum? I already know of their rank according to the us news.</p>
<p>fordham sucks not a great school surely not small ivy give me a break?</p>
<p>Fordham was for a certain generation, the place to go if you were smart, ambitious and the first member of your family to attend college. Other schools that fulfilled that role were the College of the City of New York (City College) NYU and Hunter (for women). Together, they might be considered a kind of working class Ivy League.</p>
<p>I heard that Fordham and NYU are on a similar plane.</p>
<p>Reed College in Portland, Oregon.</p>
<p>Brown, Dartmouth, Princeton.</p>
<p>(This is a joke, for the sarcasm-blind posters here)</p>