Seven out of the eight Ivy League schools were founded in Massachusetts.
In 2021, all eight Ivy League schools recorded record high numbers of applications and record low acceptance rates
 As noted by Irene Harwarth, Mindi Maline, and Elizabeth DeBra, "The 'Seven Sisters' was the name given to Barnard, Smith, Mount Holyoke, Vassar, Bryn Mawr, Wellesley, and Radcliffe, because of their parallel to the Ivy League men's colleges

