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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]If my kid wants to work on the west coast, which has more name recognition out there?

That would be Hamilton w/out doubt.[/quote]
Really?  I think most people on the west coast would consider both schools to be good liberal arts schools without dicing which one seems marginally better.  If you really want to work on the west coast and have some name recognition for a small liberal arts college, go to a West Coast liberal arts school like Reed, Occidental, or a Claremont school.[/quote]
I grew up on the west coast (and still spend a lot of time there for work) and knew by high school that Kenyon was a strong school, especially for English and the arts, somewhere in the midwest.  I first heard of Hamilton when a friend's little brother went to Colgate and insisted on regaling us with Hamilton/Colgate stories.  I didn't know it was considered a strong school until after I had kids.

I definitely agree with the point about west coast schools being better known in the west -- a very good thing for grads of Reed and the Claremont Colleges; not so much for Occidental.  The closest west coast fit to Kenyon/Hamilton is probably Whitman (which is quite well regarded, if not quite on the Reed/Pomona level, out west).[/quote]

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