Hidden Ivies

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.