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Vassar College
Vassar College was founded in 1861 by brewer Matthew Vassar as one of the first degree-granting institutions of higher education for women in the United States, part of the group of elite women's colleges later known as the Seven Sisters, founded specifically to give women access to an academic rigor comparable to the all-male Ivy League. The college became fully coeducational in 1969, one of the first of the Seven Sisters to admit men, a shift that came after Vassar had turned down a proposed merger with Yale and instead chose to open its own doors to male students while retaining its historic campus and name. Vassar's academic reputation for rigor and its historically strong English, art history, and drama programs have produced a long list of prominent writers and artists, and the college's need-blind admission and full-need financial aid policies place it among the small number of liberal arts colleges that can financially support that level of accessibility. The campus itself, a designated National Historic Landmark District, includes a Frederick Law Olmsted-designed arboretum and a collection of architecturally significant academic buildings, giving Vassar one of the most distinctive physical campuses among the country's elite liberal arts colleges.
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Colgate University
Colgate University was founded in 1819 by 13 men with 13 dollars and 13 prayers, according to the school's own founding lore, a detail that's given rise to the number 13 as a recurring, semi-official motif across campus traditions ever since. The university's small size, around 3,000 undergraduates, and its rural upstate New York setting in the village of Hamilton let it maintain close faculty-student relationships and a tight-knit residential campus culture that's frequently cited as a defining strength relative to larger research universities. Colgate's endowment per student ranks among the highest of any liberal arts college in the country, a resource base tied in part to the Colgate family's soap and toothpaste fortune, funding financial aid and campus facilities well beyond what a school of its size might otherwise support. The university's strong outcomes in finance and consulting recruiting, driven by an unusually well-connected and career-active alumni network for a liberal arts college, have made Colgate a consistent draw for students seeking a small-college experience without sacrificing access to competitive post-graduation career paths.
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