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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have lived in 9 countries. 
US schools that are household names:
Harvard 
Yale 
Princeton 
Stanford 
MIT 
then to a lesser degree UC Berkeley, Georgetown and Columbia.

I had never heard of UVA for anyone that cares, even after living in the US for 5 years I never heard anyone talk about it (until I moved the DC of course). Schools that I would now consider excellent such as Northwestern, Duke, Chicago etc would not generally be known outside of the US (to the level of being a household name).

UK universities:
Oxford, Cambridge, Imperial College London, London School Economics and London Business school
Trinity in Dublin
St Andrews is considered a bit of a "holiday" university in the UK.[/quote]

Agree with this totally. Put Oxford up at the level with Harvard in terms of lay awareness. I'd also take out ICL, LBS, Trinity Dublin, and St Andrews - they're all excellent, but definitely not as well known as Oxbridge or even LSE (which for some reason seems to have above par name recognition).[/quote]

Trinity College in Dublin is very popular with Asians. Lots of them are there as students. LSE not so much. [/quote]

In terms of public awareness, LSE far out-trumps Trinity College Dublin. I’m gonna go ahead and guess you’re not Asian.[/quote]

I am Asian and [b]some very wealthy people from my country (will not name which one) attend Dublin.[/b] You just need to check out the school's website to see the high percentage of foreign students in the school. [/quote]

completely irrelevant. every single one of them would rather attend Harvard and dozens of other schools in the US, and multiple schools in the UK. students attend schools they are admitted to. nobody goes to trinity if they can go to harard or oxford.

also, foreign students and their parents are familiar with a much greater number of schools than the rest of foreign elites. they are in the midst of it, exploring numerous options. the rest are simply not aware of the existence of many colleges.[/quote]

Ha, ha, you have no clue. [/quote]

I am Asian, from Asia, and I don’t know a single person who knows about Trinity College Dublin, let alone cares about it.

Man, you really do have boosters for all sorts of schools on here. The most random and irrelevant schools.[/quote]

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