Hidden Ivies: Thirty Colleges of Excellence

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**Hidden Ivies: Thirty Colleges of Excellence**
Author	Howard Greene and Matthew Greene
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre(s)	Education
Publisher	HarperCollins
Released	2000
ISBN	0-06-095362-4

Hidden Ivies: Thirty Colleges of Excellence, is a college educational guide published in 2000. It concerns college admissions in the United States. The authors define both the title of this book as well as their goals in writing it on page one in the following manner: "Our mission in writing this book for students and parents is to create greater awareness of the small, distinctive cluster of colleges and universities of excellence that are available to gifted college-bound students." [1] In this book, the authors (using the same criteria often used to evaluate Ivy League schools) discuss thirty American schools that are small in size and are either liberal arts colleges or universities that emulate them.

Four of the schools are located in the Midwestern United States, 15 in the Northeastern United States, five in the Southern United States, four in the Western United States, and two in multi-regions (Washington University in the Midwest and South and Rice University in the West and South).

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Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter One: The Liberal Arts: What is a Liberal Arts Education and Why Is it Important Today?
Chapter Two: What Makes an Ivy an Ivy? (And a Hidden Ivy)?
Chapter Three: Individual College Descriptions
- Amherst College, Barnard College, Bates College, Bowdoin College, Bryn Mawr College, Carleton College, Claremont McKenna College, Colby College, Colgate University, Colorado College, Davidson College, Emory University, Grinnell College, Hamilton College,Haverford College, Middlebury College, Mount Holyoke College, University of Notre Dame, Oberlin College, Pomona College, Reed College, Rice University, Smith College, Swarthmore College, Vanderbilt University, Vassar College, Wake Forest University, Washington & Lee University, Washington University and Wellesley College.
Chapter Four: Words of Wisdom For Parents and Students (From Parents to Parents)
Appendices
- Appendix I: The Hidden Ivies (same list as above)
- Appendix II: Other Colleges and Universities of Excellence
  - Middle -Size Private Universities: Duke University, Georgetown University, Johns Hopkins University, Northwestern University, Tufts University, Stanford University, University of Chicago, Wesleyan University, Williams College
  - State Universities: University of California, Berkeley, University of California, Davis, University of California, Los Angeles, University of California, San Diego, University of California, Santa Barbara, College of William and Mary, Indiana University, Bloomington, Penn State University, University of Colorado, Boulder, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, University of Texas, Austin, University of Virginia, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  - Scientific and Technical Universities: California Institute of Technology, Carnegie Mellon University, Georgia Institute of Technology, Harvey Mudd College, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Purdue University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
  - Additional Colleges of Note: Brandeis University, Bucknell University, Connecticut College, Franklin and Marshall College, Kenyon College, Lawrence University, Lehigh University, Macalester College, St. Olaf College, Trinity College (Connecticut), Trinity University (Texas), Tulane University, University of Richmond, University of Rochester, University of the South
- Appendix III: Institutional Leaders Questionnaire
- Appendix IV: Student Quesionnaire
Index

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Howard Greene, Mathew W. Greene (2000). Greenes' Guides to Educational Planning: The Hidden Ivies: Thirty Colleges of Excellence. New York: HarperCollins. ISBN 0-06-095362-4.