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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]WM was well known at my rural high school in the 80s in DE. I knew about it just from reading history books. Maybe watch more Jeopardy?  "William & Mary has been a clue or answer more than 70 times during regular play rounds — including six times as a Daily Double clue."
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and it's always been in a clash with Harvard about getting the 'first university in the US' title.  It was the first college to become a university.

Anyone savvy about colleges has heard of it. My lord!  We heard of it in the Midwest in the 80s.

The College of William & Mary calls itself "the second-oldest institution of higher learning in the country", acknowledging Harvard's claim but adding that: "Harvard may have opened first, but William & Mary was already planned. Original 1619 plans for W&M called for a campus at Henrico." This refers to the College of Henricopolis or University of Henrico established by the Virginia Company near Richmond, Virginia. [b]With respect to the title of first university in America, it makes the claim on its website that "in 1781, by uniting the faculties of law, medicine, and the arts, William & Mary became America's first true university."[/b][ It also is the "First institution of higher education to have a law school, which made us the first college in the country to become a university (1779)".

Harvard, William and Mary, and Yale were organized on the plans of the English colleges which constitute the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. [/quote]

Sorry, never heard of it before moving down here. I also knew just one person who went to UVA for undergraduate. I did not it was a good school until we moved to dc.

It is geographic. You only hear of a handful of top schools in an area. This was also before the internet so I may have glanced the us news ranking list in a magazine but I didn’t stare or study in.[/quote]

Why are you double and tripling down on not knowing a pretty darn famous school?  It's been listed as a top 50ish school in USNews since the 1990s.

Literally, you learn about it in history class considering Thomas Jefferson and James Monroe graduated from W&M.

Weird flex.[/quote]

Not to mention a lyric in a classic Steely Dan song!![/quote]

DP. I'll triple down even though my son chose somewhere else.

W&M has been on the[b] 'top public Ivy' list in the top 5 for DECADES.[/b]  I remember reading about it and that list in 1988.[/quote]
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Original list published in 1985
Public Ivy: 
College of William & Mary (Williamsburg, Virginia)
[b]Miami University (Oxford, Ohio)[/b]
University of California (applies to the campuses as of 1985: Berkeley, Los Angeles, San Diego, Irvine, Davis, Santa Barbara, Santa Cruz, and Riverside)
University of Michigan (Ann Arbor)
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
University of Texas at Austin
University of Vermont (Burlington)
University of Virginia (Charlottesville)[/quote]

What happened to Miami, OH?  All the other schools on this list are held in even greater esteem (though University of Vermont is perhaps not the same as the rest) these days.

Miami, OH has had financial difficulties, declining enrollment, etc.  Just a crap location in the scheme of things?[/quote]

People arrive and find out they aren't in Florida :lol: [/quote]

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