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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]On both ends (US awareness of international unis) and (international awareness of American unis) it depends on which demographics you're talking with.

Sure, probably everyone knows Harvard and Oxbridge, but beyond it gets tougher the further beyond those you reach.

Having lived in Europe, I've met very well educated Europeans, for example, who didn't know of Princeton. Even with folks more familiar with US schools, for example, Penn is confused frequently with Penn State.

Who are you talking with about it? In China and India, well educated groups, or those close to current or future international students might have pretty broad familiarity with top 50 US universities, which includes various flagship state schools that aren't amazingly impressive to Americans. Recruiters in international companies will know of these schools.

Hundreds of thousands of students from the likes of China, India, Saudi, etc pay lots and lots to go to uni in the US, and they're not all at HYP. So they find value in schools like Michigan, Florida, UIUC, the UCs.

Similarly, in the US, better educated and wealthier crowds, private school folks will know of LSE, St Andrews, the like.[/quote]

Lol at the subtle St Andrews plug. No.[/quote]

Oxford and Cambridge have more name recognition among masses but S[b]t Andrews and LSE are very well known and desirable [/b]among international applicants, no matter if they are coming from USA or India or China etc.[/quote]

No they are not!  Lots of threads on this already.  LSE is know as "Let's See Europe".  It is not "desirable" by international applicants.  Only if you can't get into the more elite schools[/quote]

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