Talk:Little Three/Archive 1

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I attended one of the listed colleges, and I've never really heard it described as a "Little Ivy." Given the vagueness of this category, I think this page ought to be deleted. It's similar to the absolutely useless term "Public Ivy," a label which has probably been applied to virtually every major state university in the United States. This is a somewhat arbitrary list of top liberal arts colleges; let's leave the "Ivy" label to the football conference that bears that name.
 * If you think it should be deleted, you have to follow the procedure at the bottom of the page on Votes for Deletion, and the community will hear what you have to say. -Splash 00:53, Jun 27, 2005 (UTC)
 * I'll just leave it as a comment rather than a vote to delete.
 * Ok. -Splash 01:11, Jun 27, 2005 (UTC)

Huh?
Now the page makes even less sense than it did before. Amherst, Williams and Wesleyan are the Little Three, not the "Little Ivies." Why Wesleyan and not any number of equally selective schools -- Swarthmore, Bowdoin, Middlebury, Wellesley, Haverford, Carleton, Pomona, Vassar, Davidson, etc.?

(Because Wesleyan is more prestigious than any of the schools you listed - except Swarthmore which is more prestigious.)

The little threes is an athletice conference that is over 100 years old (oldest unchanged athletice conference in the country). It has nothing to do with seletivity.

Redirected from "Little Ivies"?
Why does "Little Ivies" redirect to this page? "Little Ivies" is a term in common use which produces 11 pages of google results. "Little Ivies" may or may not be a useful term, but it is a real term.


 * The history of this page is a little strange. It looks like someone created the article Little Ivies and put a number of small colleges in it. At some later point, this list was trimmed to just three, those in the little three. I guess at that point someone looked at the page and said "those aren't the little Ivies, those are the little three" and changed the name. Little Ivies then automatically turned into a redirect after the page move.
 * I think the Little Ivies page ought to be recreated. According to the first few internet sources, the little ivies consist of Amherst, Bowdoin, Hamilton, Haverford, Middlebury, Swarthmore, Trinity, Tufts, Wesleyan, and Williams. I don't know whether this is a contentious issue (in the page history, you can see people adding their own alma maters in the list...).


 * In fact, to keep the history as relating to the one with the most relevent edits, *this* page ought to be moved back to "Little Ivies", with the names of all the colleges put back, and the "Little Three" page ought to be made with the *current* contents of this page, if that makes any sense.


 * I'll get round to it this evening or tomorrow, unless someone feels like doing it first.
 * &mdash; Asbestos | Talk  9 July 2005 17:16 (UTC)

Little Ivies
I've written Little Ivies as its own article, distinct from the Little Three.