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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]One day I'd like to see a list ranking schools by name recognition, perhaps regionally. So Harvard would have 100%, but Williams? I wonder. Higher in the northeast for sure.

I think people here (and everywhere, but especially here) overestimate how known their regional private/public schools are. I grew up in NYC, for example, and knew all the good regional schools but also Grinnell and Williams and Carleton and Mac - our specialized high school sent kids to all those. Kids also went to places like UT Austin and UCLA too. But Washington and Lee, GMU, JMU? 100% off our radar. [/quote]

+1. I grew up in the southeast so name recognition/“prestige” was different, even as a student at an elite private school in a major southern city…I had not heard of Williams until I was an adult living in the DMV. Rice, Emory, obviously Vanderbilt and duke and Tulane were the prestige schools to me. Of course all the ivies but schools such as Williams or Grinnell were just not on our radar really at all. I doubt my experience or perception of prestige matters but if you are thinking of name recognition, no school that you mentioned really has that outside of the region the school is in except Princeton. [/quote]

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