Have you heard of Davidson College?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is not knowing it like not knowing Williams? (I remember a long thread about that on here before). Anyway, a colleague went there and was a bit miffed that none of us had heard of it. I looked it up online. Apparently it is "highly" selective so it is a good school I guess.

Yikes. Your colleague is probably is questioning his/her co-workers. None of you had heard of Davidson? What kind of company do you work for anyway? Ha,ha,ha.

[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

Well, she has a point.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Davidson recruits heavily in this area. It is like Earlham, Pomona and Colgate.

Not Earlham, that's for sure.

[Anonymous]

It's a very good regional liberal arts school, like pomona or colgate.

[Anonymous]

No, I'm from out west.

[Anonymous]

[quote=Anonymous]It's a very good regional liberal arts school, like pomona or colgate.[/quote]

I think it's better than Colgate. I have heard of it only because I went to a New England liberal arts college and read about tons of them when I was looking at colleges 25 years ago.

[Anonymous]

I told a neighbor growing up I was applying to Davidson. The neighbor, a transplant from NY and Jewish, had never heard of Davidson. He told me to go to a school people have heard of. My mom later told me I should go to Davidson for exactly that reason.

[Anonymous]

Yes. Solid school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's a very good regional liberal arts school, like pomona or colgate.

No, Pomona is on par with Amherst, Williams, and Swarthmore.

Davidson I would rank above Colgate.

I have definitely heard of Davidson and consider it a very strong SLAC, like Carleton (in MN). I am in academia, however, so I am much more familiar with colleges than most of my friends who are in law or business. I went to Williams, and my DH who is a product of a good large state school had never heard of it.

[Anonymous]

Never heard of it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Never heard of it.

Guess you aren't too knowledgeable. What are you doing here?

[Anonymous]

I think I've heard of it but don't have any opinion on it- I don't know if it's a regional school, good school, where it's located, etc.

[Anonymous]

Yes, I have. It is a second-tier (nothing wrong with that) liberal arts college, and it is in the South.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not until last year. It's in the South, not well known at all, not anywhere near as selective as Williams! And not well known outside of the South.

Other than the part about it being in the South, the above poster is completely wrong on all accounts.

+1

[Anonymous]

steph curry!

every dude knows about davidson.