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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People get Georgetown, George Washington, and George Mason confused. People get Penn state and Penn wrong.  People get Dickinson and Fairley Dickinson wrong.  People are largely uneducated. [/quote]

Being confused is not uneducated. Some are not as obsessed with all the colleges as the DCUM crowd. If you’re not from a particular area it’s easy to confuse names. [/quote]

This. Plenty of people from the East Coast don't know the difference between Santa Clara University and UC Santa Cruz, the difference between the University of Colorado and Colorado College, or between UW or WSU in Washington. I know the difference between all of these including differences in prestige, cost, setting, and reputation of various programs, because I grew up out there and knew people who went to all of them. But I had never met anyone who went to Penn or Penn State until I moved to DC.

A lot of people's knowledge about colleges is based on watching college sports.[/quote]

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