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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Harvey Mudd? Insiders know it's great, but normies have never heard of it and the name sounds sus to them. A true stealth school: zero branding with a silly name, so undetected by normie radar.[/quote]

Normies also don't know that it ranks #12 nationally in liberal arts colleges according to the obscure USNWR, and that they only admit about one out of ten applicants because no one knows about it. Hard to find this stuff out.[/quote]

Insufferable.  Colleges' clients are high school kids.  There are tons of discussions on any school including mudd on reddit.  No one cares if a Walmart employee knows about it.  To an average GenZ high school student today, [b]there is nothing obscure about this school, or any school[/b].  [/quote]
Call me 'insufferable' if you like (I assume you were replying to my reply to what you quoted, not to your own earlier post), but if this is what you think, then we simply live in different worlds. My kid just graduated from a large public school alongside kids from many Walmart-shopping families. I can tell you with great confidence that no more than a dozen kids in his graduating class of 500 came anywhere close to learning what Harvey Mudd College is (or, again, one of the other more obscure schools; the point isn't only about this one). In fact -- I swear -- the college guidance counsellor at his high school seemed never to have heard of HMC when my kid turned in his list of schools last fall.

In your world, that may not be true and may even seem impossible. But if we're talking about US college admissions generally, I don't see how it could be true that "there is nothing obscure about... any school." Are you imagining that [i]most[/i] college-bound HS seniors across the country are discussing rankings, ROI, and chances of eventual PhD placement on Reddit or social media? The vast majority of my kid's peers applied to a couple of schools in-state and gave it little further thought, though some high-stats kids in this category threw in applications to high-profile 'reaches' like Harvard, MIT or (yes) Caltech, just because 'Why not?' No one but my kid threw in a 'reach' application to Mudd, Reed, or Oberlin -- because, again, those schools were not on this peer-group's radar.

Yes, I'm generalizing from those facts on the ground where I live, and I can't be sure that the generalization is true. But I suspect that my sense of what an 'average GenZ high school student today' is like -- across the entire country, not merely in the world of the well-advised and plugged-in -- is closer to the truth than yours is.[/quote]

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