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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Outside of academia and those of us who have actively researched small schools, very few of us know the strong liberal arts colleges from other regions. [/b]I run into people all the time who have never heard of the schools my family attended (Denison/Kenyon) and I thought University of Richmond was a commuter school when I moved to Virginia!

The average American knows colleges in his/her region and through sports. Very few can tell you the locations of Grinnell, Harvey Mudd, Pomona, Carleton, Davidson, Haverford, Middlebury, etc. It’s not a litmus test for wealth or education—it’s a lack of exposure.[/quote]
Wrong. This cohort of schools is very well known, and has been very well known, to highly educated, "highbrow" circles for a long, long time. Of course academics know about them, [b]but also attorneys, physicians, bankers,[/b] and the well-heeled professional classes.[/quote]

DP. There are so many people amongst these three groups that have never heard of these schools. I’m not sure why this is a surprise to people.

There is a high likelihood that a person who isn’t from the northeast and whose kid hasn’t considered LACs in the northeast (i.e., most people) has not heard of these schools. Even amongst well-heeled professional classes.[/quote]

DP. You’re both right.

You ignored the PP’s qualifier about “highly educated, ‘highbrow’” circles. Among those groups, prominent SLACs are very well known, even across the Midwest and South.

But you’re right that there are obviously many successful professionals who didn’t grow up in those circles and aren’t familiar with SLACs.[/quote]

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