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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They sit in that odd in-between where they're lesser-known by the general populace, but are incredibly overhyped by those in the know.

No one cares about your Williams or Amherst or Swarthmore, and they're slowly but surely becoming increasingly irrelevant in today's higher ed landscape.[/quote]

They sit in that odd in-between where they're lesser-known by the general populace, but are incredibly [b]respected[/b] by those in the know. Fixed it for you.

Regarding your second line. The very low acceptance rates should be your first clue that your thinking is faulty. After you've worked through that one you might want to expand upon and and ask yourself "Why do the people who matter respect them so highly?  Why do they have the among the very highest acceptance rates to med schools, law schools, pre-professional programs, IB, MBB, etc. when they don't matter? Maybe I've been wrong because they obviously do matter. Maybe it's my understanding of undergraduate education in America that is inadequate? They obviously do matter because those very low acceptance rates and positive outcomes definitely matter. After all outcomes is what we send our children to school for." That would be a pretty useful thought process for some in need of actual education rather than opinion.

What doesn't matter is "are they known by the general populace"? If that was the driver people know more about Alabama than any of the Ivies so maybe you should "look South". And, they are far from irrelevant, the influence of their networks will be ever more important in the time of AI, especially when their graduates sit in top positions across the country and strongly support their schools. 
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