Have you heard of Davidson College?

Anonymous

I first learned about it from a snooty female graduate. Grew up in the NE and never heard of it before that.

Anonymous

Yes, it's a very good school.

Subject: Re:Have you heard of Davidson College?

Anonymous

Yes, although I've been through the college process in recent years with my kids. It's ranked 9th on US News LACs although I think that's a relatively recent phenomenon. I went to Carleton, which is ranked 8th, and many people haven't heard of that either. I don't take offense though!

Anonymous

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes, I have heard of it. It's a great school.

Did most of your colleagues attend large universities?

Bit of a mixed bag. A few big ten schools, a couple VA people (UVA and W&M), a couple ivies. The look on her face though. It was like we were neanderthals who had never heard of Princeton or something. lol

I think Davidson is more well-known among people who attended/looked at attending SLACs. It's a pretty competitive SLAC. If you were set on a big school, or an in-state school, or an Ivy, I can see how you wouldn't know about it.

12/14/2015 15:55

Anonymous

Every basketball fan has heard of it.

12/14/2015 15:56

Anonymous

Yes, I consider it a good school and heard about it growing up. But I am from Virginia, so the push for good students where I grew up was to go to William and Mary or UVA, didn't seem logical to pay for private school tuition to go to a small school outside of Charlotte that is on par with the better instate Virginia schools.

12/14/2015 15:57

Anonymous

Yes, and I'm from this area.

Sure it's a small school, but it often makes it to March Madness, which is why a lot of my friends have heard of it. Maybe the folks who've never heard of it don't follow the tournament?

12/14/2015 15:57

Subject: Re:Have you heard of Davidson College?

Anonymous

It's a good school but not knowing of it is not on par with not knowing about Williams. Williams has a MUCH better national reputation.

12/14/2015 15:58

Anonymous

Anonymous wrote:Every basketball fan has heard of it.

Good point. Home of Steph Curry. They must have mentioned Davidson every game during the NBA playoffs last year.

12/14/2015 16:00

Anonymous

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Every basketball fan has heard of it.

Good point. Home of Steph Curry. They must have mentioned Davidson every game during the NBA playoffs last year.

15:57 here, and I'd completely forgotten that Curry went there (I don't watch NBA, just college). That's another reason people should have at least heard of it.

12/14/2015 16:01

Subject: Re:Have you heard of Davidson College?

Anonymous

Anonymous wrote:Yes, although I've been through the college process in recent years with my kids. It's ranked 9th on US News LACs although I think that's a relatively recent phenomenon. I went to Carleton, which is ranked 8th, and many people haven't heard of that either. I don't take offense though!

Davidson has consistently been ranked either in the top top 10 or just outside of it at least since I was looking at schools in the mid-90s (I didn't go there but my -- extremely bright-- friend did).

12/14/2015 16:06

Anonymous

Yes, I've heard of it. A high school classmate went there.

12/14/2015 16:09

Anonymous

Yes, from 25 years ago. Good school then.