Do mid-tier LACs lack name recognition?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:95% of people don’t know Amherst or Williams, let alone “mid tier” so who cares? (Yes, I know people in DC do, but I’m talking about the real world).

People who matter probably do know of these schools.

How do you define “who matters”?

Deciders

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:95% of people don’t know Amherst or Williams, let alone “mid tier” so who cares? (Yes, I know people in DC do, but I’m talking about the real world).

People who matter probably do know of these schools.

How do you define “who matters”?

Exactly what you think it means. People with knowledge, power, and status.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:95% of people don’t know Amherst or Williams, let alone “mid tier” so who cares? (Yes, I know people in DC do, but I’m talking about the real world).

People who matter probably do know of these schools.

How do you define “who matters”?

Exactly what you think it means. People with knowledge, power, and status.

Maybe people with knowledge, power, and status who live in the northeast, but there are lots of other people with that who live in the rest of the county who will have no idea. State schools will carry a lot more cache in these areas than LACs. No dig on LACs, it's just the way it is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:95% of people don’t know Amherst or Williams, let alone “mid tier” so who cares? (Yes, I know people in DC do, but I’m talking about the real world).

People who matter probably do know of these schools.

How do you define “who matters”?

Exactly what you think it means. People with knowledge, power, and status.

Maybe people with knowledge, power, and status who live in the northeast, but there are lots of other people with that who live in the rest of the county who will have no idea. State schools will carry a lot more cache in these areas than LACs. No dig on LACs, it's just the way it is.

Exactly. My HS north of NYC sent people to the Williams, Amherst, Colby, etc. and they are excellent schools. If you want to work in Manhattan or DC, people have heard of them and know the rigor. But in the Midwest, nobody, except from a exclusive suburb will have heard of them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:95% of people don’t know Amherst or Williams, let alone “mid tier” so who cares? (Yes, I know people in DC do, but I’m talking about the real world).

People who matter probably do know of these schools.

How do you define “who matters”?

Exactly what you think it means. People with knowledge, power, and status.

Maybe people with knowledge, power, and status who live in the northeast, but there are lots of other people with that who live in the rest of the county who will have no idea. State schools will carry a lot more cache in these areas than LACs. No dig on LACs, it's just the way it is.

Exactly. My HS north of NYC sent people to the Williams, Amherst, Colby, etc. and they are excellent schools. If you want to work in Manhattan or DC, people have heard of them and know the rigor. But in the Midwest, nobody, except from a exclusive suburb will have heard of them.

This. But those are the people who matter anyway. I grew up in Honolulu, and while 99% of people there didn't know about Amherst, Williams, or Swarthmore, that 1% who did know where the ones who ended up being important in my professional and social life.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:95% of people don’t know Amherst or Williams, let alone “mid tier” so who cares? (Yes, I know people in DC do, but I’m talking about the real world).

People who matter probably do know of these schools.

How do you define “who matters”?

Exactly what you think it means. People with knowledge, power, and status.

Maybe people with knowledge, power, and status who live in the northeast, but there are lots of other people with that who live in the rest of the county who will have no idea. State schools will carry a lot more cache in these areas than LACs. No dig on LACs, it's just the way it is.

Exactly. My HS north of NYC sent people to the Williams, Amherst, Colby, etc. and they are excellent schools. If you want to work in Manhattan or DC, people have heard of them and know the rigor. But in the Midwest, nobody, except from a exclusive suburb will have heard of them.

Who cares what midwesterners think?

[Anonymous]

Grad schools know these schools and most LAC grads go to grad school. What matters is the education you receive.

[Anonymous]

I went to Wesleyan. At this point it doesn’t come up much at all but generally over the years many people have either never heard of it, they’ve heard of it and think it’s weird, or they have heard of it and are impressed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:95% of people don’t know Amherst or Williams, let alone “mid tier” so who cares? (Yes, I know people in DC do, but I’m talking about the real world).

People who matter probably do know of these schools.

How do you define “who matters”?

People who hire for jobs or accept you into grad school.

[Anonymous]

I went to a SLAC that is exactly within the OP's range, on the west coast. Most people in DC don't recognize it -- which is fine. I had a great education, made lifelong friends, and two years after graduation earned a full-ride to the #1 graduate program in my field, which most DC people do recognize. I would find it interesting, sociologically, as one of the PPs mentioned, but not spend much more time thinking about it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:95% of people don’t know Amherst or Williams, let alone “mid tier” so who cares? (Yes, I know people in DC do, but I’m talking about the real world).

People who matter probably do know of these schools.

How do you define “who matters”?

Exactly what you think it means. People with knowledge, power, and status.

Maybe people with knowledge, power, and status who live in the northeast, but there are lots of other people with that who live in the rest of the county who will have no idea. State schools will carry a lot more cache in these areas than LACs. No dig on LACs, it's just the way it is.

People who went to SLACs will probably be educated enough to know it’s cachet, not cache, but why quibble.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:95% of people don’t know Amherst or Williams, let alone “mid tier” so who cares? (Yes, I know people in DC do, but I’m talking about the real world).

People who matter probably do know of these schools.

How do you define “who matters”?

Exactly what you think it means. People with knowledge, power, and status.

Maybe people with knowledge, power, and status who live in the northeast, but there are lots of other people with that who live in the rest of the county who will have no idea. State schools will carry a lot more cache in these areas than LACs. No dig on LACs, it's just the way it is.

Exactly. My HS north of NYC sent people to the Williams, Amherst, Colby, etc. and they are excellent schools. If you want to work in Manhattan or DC, people have heard of them and know the rigor. But in the Midwest, nobody, except from a exclusive suburb will have heard of them.

The fact that the people in the “exclusive suburbs” know these schools sort of proves the point.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Grad schools know these schools and most LAC grads go to grad school. What matters is the education you receive.

How does SLAC online costing $50,000 per year fare against YouTube, or Coursera, or other free online courses out there? I mean, strictly in terms of education.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Grad schools know these schools and most LAC grads go to grad school. What matters is the education you receive.

How does SLAC online costing $50,000 per year fare against YouTube, or Coursera, or other free online courses out there? I mean, strictly in terms of education.

You don't get feedback from professors or interaction with peers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Grad schools know these schools and most LAC grads go to grad school. What matters is the education you receive.

How does SLAC online costing $50,000 per year fare against YouTube, or Coursera, or other free online courses out there? I mean, strictly in terms of education.

your basement probably lacks the lab equipment that students at any of those schools have easy access to