Question: What are some examples of elite, highly academically competitive private liberal colleges other than the Little Ivies?

Context articles: Baby Ivies
Ancilla College
Black Ivy League
New England Small College Athletic Conference
Ivy Day (United States)
Keystone School
Hidden Ivies
Consortium on Financing Higher Education
Little Ivies
Columbia College (South Carolina)

Baby Ivies are prestigious schools that provide early educational skills to infants. Parents want their children to receive the best education possible to receive success later in life.
 Baby Ivies provide high standard sets and engage their students by giving them a desire to learn.
 Therefore, these high expectations of academic rigor account for above average grades.
 Baby Ivies are private schools owned and governed by entities that are independent of any government—typically, religious bodies or independent boards of trustees.
 Private schools also receive funding primarily from nonpublic sources: tuition payments and often other private sources, such as foundations, religious bodies, alumni, or other private donors.
 Private schools receive all their funding from local, state, and federal governments and sometimes from donations or parent fundraising.
Ancilla College, near Donaldson, Indiana, is a two-year private liberal arts college that admits both men and women students.
 Ancilla College was founded by the Poor Handmaids of Jesus Christ in 1937 as an extension of DePaul University for the training of novices and candidates of the Poor Handmaids of Jesus Christ.
 In 1966 the college started admitting the public as a private liberal arts community college.
 Ancilla College focuses on serving the seven surrounding counties of Indiana.
 Ancilla College grants associate degrees in multiple programs, from which Ancilla graduates may easily transfer to a four-year college or university, especially via the transfer agreements that Ancilla College has with 14 Indiana colleges and universities.
 The Latin word "ancilla" means "slave girl," a reference to the college's sponsor, The Poor Handmaids of Jesus Christ.
The Black Ivy League is a colloquial term that at times referred to the historically black colleges in the United States that attracted the majority of high-performing and affluent African American students prior to the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s.
 Similar groups include: Public Ivies, Southern Ivies, and the Little Ivies, among others, none of which have canonical definitions.
 Generally, these schools have avoided using the term "Black Ivy League" to describe themselves.
The New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) is a collegiate athletic conference comprising sports teams from eleven schools, which are ten small liberal arts colleges and one medium-sized research university.
 The schools are all private, located in the Northeastern United States, and are often associated with the Little Ivies.
 The conference name is also commonly used to refer to those eleven schools as a group.
 The eleven institutions are Amherst College, Bates College, Bowdoin College, Colby College, Connecticut College, Hamilton College, Middlebury College, Tufts University, Trinity College, Wesleyan University, and Williams College.
Ivy Day is an annual ceremony in which an ivy stone is placed on either a residential, academic or administrative building or ground to commemorate academic excellence.
 The ceremony is most known for being practiced among older colleges in the Northeastern United States.
 It is most associated with the Ivy League and a group of small liberal arts college known as the Little Ivies.
 Some institutions announce members of Phi Beta Kappa and specialized honor designations for students.
 Some classes donate to the college, in the form gates, facades, and door outlines, by inscribing or creating their own version of symbolic icons of the college's seal or other prominent insignia.
 The ivy stones are usually decorated with the graduation date and a symbol that represents the college as a whole or the class as a whole.
 The most common ivy stone is one-by-two feet and is usually made out of workable stone.
Keystone School, generally called Keystone, is a co-educational independent private school for students from pre-kindergarten to twelfth grade, located in the Monte Vista Historic District in Midtown San Antonio, Texas, USA.
 The greater Keystone School consists of the Little School of Keystone, serving PK-3 and PK-4 students, Lower School, serving kindergarten through fourth-grade students, the Middle School, serving fifth- through eighth-grade students, and the Upper School, consisting of the ninth through twelfth grades.
 Keystone is regarded as one of the most academically competitive schools in the United States and has been acclaimed for its academic performance.
 It has been placed as one of the best private high schools in America by the Washington Post multiple times and ranked #1 in 2015.
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."
 In the introduction, the authors further explain their aim by referring specifically to "the group historically known as the 'Little Ivies' (including Amherst, Bowdoin, Middlebury, Swarthmore, Wesleyan, and Williams)" which the authors say have "scaled the heights of prestige and selectivity and also turn away thousands of our best and brightest young men and women."
 The second edition includes the assessment of all the institutions considered "Little Ivies" except Connecticut College.
 Connecticut College is referenced on three occasions in the book for its affiliation and student exchange program with other Little Ivies, and the college is included in Appendix II as another college of excellence.
The Consortium on Financing Higher Education, often known as COFHE, is an organization of thirty-five private colleges and universities.
 Formed in the mid-1970s, the Consortium on Financing Higher Education (COFHE) is an unincorporated, voluntary, institutionally-supported organization of 35 highly selective, private liberal arts colleges and universities, all of which are committed to meeting the full demonstrated financial need of admitted students.
The Little Ivies (singularly Little Ivy) are a group of elite, highly academically competitive private liberal arts colleges in the Northeastern United States.
Columbia College is a private liberal arts women's college in Columbia, South Carolina.
 Recognized by U.S. News & World Report as a best value institution, Columbia College provides students with academically challenging programs, experiential learning, and intellectual and professional competencies.
 Founded 160 years ago by the United Methodist Church as a women’s liberal arts college, Columbia College also offers evening, graduate and online programs serving both women and men.