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[quote=Anonymous]I grew up in Florida and there are plenty of schools people on this board think are great schools i never heard of until,i came north. Schools like Bowdoin, Williams, Middlebury, Bates and most other Northeast SLACS never registered me. The schools outside Florida that i did know about were usually D1 football powerhouses that gave scholarships to classmates or because i had some personal or family connection, i.e. all five of the service academies, Notre Dame, Temple University, LaSalle College. Catholic colleges like Villanova and Georgetown were prominenly known because i went to a Catholic School. I asked my brother, who is a West Pointer, where he would've gone to school if he hadn't gone to West Point and he said University of Florida. The U.S. higher education system is unparralled for its breadth and depth. I imagine 98% of students choose school's first from the region where they live, or from those that friends and family members attended.  Most of my family members who went to college (all from my father's side) attended either a service academy or state or Catholic institutions close to home: West Chester University, Chestnut Hill College, LaSalle College, Temple, Beaver College (now Arcadia University). Only one attended an Ivy. [/quote]

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