Greater name recognition: Lehigh, Lafayette, Dickinson, Bucknell?

[Anonymous]

Being from NJ I had heard of all of these schools. Went to a private school where students ended up at all four. Only considered Bucknell originally because Lehigh's location seemed rough and I wasn't interested in finance or engineering.
Long story short I randomly drove through Lehigh's campus one day and fell in love- ended up there.

Now live in the South. In educated/UMC circles here I rarely encounter someone who hasn't even heard of Lehigh. People who went to a local college, community college, etc usually haven't heard of it. Like a PP said, I think it usually says more about the person.

[Anonymous]

Expecting people to be familiar with or even hear of your college is pretty funny. Get over it.

[Anonymous]

I’m non-American and the only one from this list I ever heard about before I migrated here was Bucknell. An Econ professor from Bucknell did a study abroad semester at my undergrad 🙂.

[Anonymous]

I went to a college about 20 min away from Bucknell and had some adjunct professors who also taught there, heard of a couple cross-listed courses, etc

[Anonymous]

I grew up in PA so know all 4 of them. I would have guessed that Lehigh has the best name recognition. It was always known as a good engineering school in our circles. Bucknell was known as a good school, and I almost applied there back in the 1980s. Kids in my graduating class also went to Dickinson and Lafayette, but I'm not surprised they are not well-known outside the Mid-Atlantic.

Having said that, how many people in the Midwest/West would know the difference between the following East Coast schools:

Washington & Lee
Franklin & Marshall
James Madison
Randolph Macon
Lafayette
William & Mary
George Mason
Mary Washington
Patrick Henry
Washington & Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson

[Anonymous]

Randolph Macon used to be split into 2 schools - one was a women’s college

They are now just Randolph College

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What is the probability these schools will still be in business in 30 years?

Each is in the top 100 for endowment per student, ahead of such DCUM staples as Bates, Georgetown, Wake Forest and Tufts. So they have that going for h them. Which is nice.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What is the probability these schools will still be in business in 30 years?

Each is in the top 100 for endowment per student, ahead of such DCUM staples as Bates, Georgetown, Wake Forest and Tufts. So they have that going for h them. Which is nice.

Exactly, these aren’t the schools at risk of folding. Those are the much lower ranked tiny schools people really haven’t heard of, not schools in the top 50 got small colleges.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Randolph Macon used to be split into 2 schools - one was a women’s college

They are now just Randolph College

Nope the OG Randolph-Macon is still there. Randolph College is the former all woman’s school. They’ve been 100% separate for decades.

[Anonymous]

I'm from PA, all the same to me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I grew up in PA so know all 4 of them. I would have guessed that Lehigh has the best name recognition. It was always known as a good engineering school in our circles. Bucknell was known as a good school, and I almost applied there back in the 1980s. Kids in my graduating class also went to Dickinson and Lafayette, but I'm not surprised they are not well-known outside the Mid-Atlantic.

Having said that, how many people in the Midwest/West would know the difference between the following East Coast schools:

Washington & Lee
Franklin & Marshall
James Madison
Randolph Macon
Lafayette
William & Mary
George Mason
Mary Washington
Patrick Henry
Washington & Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson

Depends on the age of the people.

I suspect George Mason is best known for its Final Four run (mid 00s). William & Mary is referenced in the Steely Dan song (yeah I know it’s about Bard) and is the second oldest college in the country. Patrick Henry probably has some cachet among evangelical circles. James Madison and Lafayette are D-1.

RMC, MWC, JMU are all among the top half of Virginia colleges but have no weight outside the DMV.

I don’t know how to rank the PA schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Randolph Macon used to be split into 2 schools - one was a women’s college

They are now just Randolph College

Nope the OG Randolph-Macon is still there. Randolph College is the former all woman’s school. They’ve been 100% separate for decades.

That was what I meant. I am sorry it was unclear. R-MWC is now just known as Randolph

R-MC is still around

[Anonymous]

Isn’t Patrick Henry where that douche canoe Madison Cawthorne went for like a semester?

JMU was a rather popular school for my DE HS-5 of my classmates went there. It was my runner up

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Isn’t Patrick Henry where that douche canoe Madison Cawthorne went for like a semester?

JMU was a rather popular school for my DE HS-5 of my classmates went there. It was my runner up

Patrick Henry and its students are so Christian and far right that they make Tucker Carlson look more liberal than Bernie Sanders.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What is the probability these schools will still be in business in 30 years?

Lol. Bucknell has a $1B endowment. By comparison there are schools with the same # of students that have $30M endowments