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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Back when I graduated high school( in the eighties), these were the schools people talked about. They weren’t Harvard, but I’d put them analogous to Notre Dame or Vanderbilt today. What happened? Is it all because they say “public” or “land-grant”, kind of how the ultra pretentious rip on Cornell.[/quote] The only one of those that was prestigious was UVA, as a carolina high school kid in the 90s. Out of state it was a big deal. The others no, mostly thought of as their state’s NCState. Which was meh and still is. Currently my kids assess the same. Vanderbilt and Duke are more popular than ivies from here, and UVA out of state is highly coveted. Not the others. [/quote] I grew up in the midwest and UVA wasn’t ever considered by any of my peers. ND was respected and Vanderbilt was an afterthought. The only other public university in the country, at that time, with a rep to match ours locally was Berkeley. That’s it. [/quote]
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