<p>The ten schools that year were Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Brown, Penn, Cornell, Dartmouth, Duke, Chicago, and Pomona. The original concept was Ivies plus Stanford, Duke, and Chicago, but Columbia and Stanford refused to cooperate. Pomona was inserted as the nearest West Coast equivalent to Stanford in terms of selectivity, and they decided that no proxy was necessary for Columbia. They also claimed to have looked at the effect of adding Williams, Amherst, and Swarthmore, and decided that it didn’t make enough of a difference.</p>