The Downtown Early Childhood Association (DECA) is an informal membership association made up of the leading pre-schools, nurseries and early years settings in the most southerly neighbourhoods on New York’s Manhattan island.
The Downtown Independent School Consortium (DISC) is a select group of six famous private schools all located in Downtown New York City. Through DISC, the schools collaborate and compete both academically and athletically. The six member schools are highly-selective, amongst the best known schools in the city and, indeed, the country. Each is particularly well-known for their progressive ethos and for advancements in educational research and pedagogical development.
“GLADCHEMMS” is a popular pseudo word that is used to refer to an elite cadre of college-preparatory, private boarding schools dotted around the Northeast United States. The ten schools whose first initials comprise the portmanteau are considered to be the most prestigious and selective secondary high schools in the country. They have long been associated with the upper classes of American society and are commonly viewed as bastions of privilege.
The Gateway to Prep Schools initiative is a common admissions portal overseen by a consortium of member schools which includes many of the best-known and most prestigious college-preparatory schools in the United States. The scheme was launched in 2010, steered by Groton School alongside peer schools including Deerfield Academy, Hotchkiss School, Phillips Academy Andover and St Paul’s School. The consortium has since expanded to include many other nationally renowned independent schools that operate a similar, highly selective admissions process and offers a streamlined application system for prospective pupils.
The Selective Liberal Arts Consortium (SLAC) was a grouping of seven of the most prestigious private liberal arts colleges from across the United States. It is, ostensibly, focused on facilitating the transition of the graduates of SLAC member colleges into the workplace. The consortium was founded in the early 2000s under the stewardship of administrators from Bryn Mawr College, Grinnell College, Haverford College and Vassar College who oversaw the secretariat function for the association until it was disbanded in 2022.
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The New York Six Liberal Arts Consortium (NY6) is an exclusive association of six of the top-ranked, highly selective, private liberal arts colleges in the state, considered to be amongst the best in the nation. The member schools work closely with one another, collaborating on research projects and grant funding petitions, programme design and delivery, shared learning opportunities and cross-registration, staff training and management and administrative functions. Such initiatives allow the six colleges to share expertise and resources to ensure the best experience for students and faculty alike, whilst also reducing the costs faced by each institution.
The Oberlin Group is a consortium of leading liberal arts colleges from across the United States (more explicitly, the libraries of those colleges). The group was formalised in 1984 at an inaugural conference organised by the then President of Oberlin College. Bringing together an invited group of leaders of top-tier private colleges, the group share a common interest in raising the profile of their sector and in developing a programme of modernisation of library administration, information technology, knowledge management, liberal arts research and the publication of college materials and academic material. Due to the highly-selective and exclusive colleges that comprise the group, membership is seen as being reserved to only the best of America’s private liberal arts colleges that are considered to be peers of one another.
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The Associated Colleges of the Midwest (ACM) is a consortium of nationally-recognised, highly-selective, private small liberal arts colleges dotted around the American Midwestern states. The schools work closely with one another to advance the case for selective liberal arts colleges, to support the delivery of their top-ranked degree programmes and to foster collaboration and synergies between member colleges.
The Seven Sisters consortium is a collection of prestigious, highly selective liberal arts colleges from across the north-eastern United States that currently or historically have been exclusive to female students only. The seven member colleges came together in 1926 to begin an informal association that would meet annually thereafter. The association is comprised of those seven colleges that long considered themselves to be peer sister schools. These schools have also enjoyed a long, close relationship with Ivy League universities that, in the past, had been open only to male students. As s,uch, the Seven Sisters are often perceived to be the sister schools to those Ivy League universities.
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The Guild of Independent Schools of New York City (GISNY / GISNYC) is an association of the leading and most prestigious private schools in and around New York City with member schools representing each of the five boroughs. The guild is an exclusive consortium whose members are extremely well-known in New York City and across the eastern seaboard. Indeed, many of the schools are of international renown and are considered to be amongst a select cadre of the world’s elite schools.
