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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Overseas, people only know MIT, Stanford and Harvard and maybe Berkeley.

- immigrant who has lived in many places[/quote]

I doubt that. I never heard of MIT or Stanford as a child and I grew up in New York. Let alone in India or China.

But I knew Harvard, Columbia and NYU growing up. Our only rich neighbor the "Doctor's wife" sent her three kids to those three schools and we never heard the end of it.    [/quote]

This is some of the dumbest logic I’ve seen on this site. Why would you discredit his point (which is correct by the way) based upon your myopic viewpoint of schools growing up in NYC? The evidence you cite of why NYU and Columbia are internationally well known is local anecdotal evidence. [/quote]

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I grew up abroad as well and I knew about Stanford, Berkeley, Harvard, not sure about others. A teen weekly magazine featured one of the "world's famous universities" every week. This is where I heard the names for the first time. Later I knew a guy who went to Princeton. By the time I got to college I knew 10-15 US schools. My dream was to go to Columbia. [b]This was all before internet.[/b][/quote]

The internet has really changed things. A lot of kids are applying to schools they might never even heard of or cared about if they had grown up before social media. Party why college admissions has gotten so nutty.[/quote]

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