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[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]
+1 I'm from CA. Never heard of W&M till I moved here, and UVA was not on our radar, either.  I knew that all states have a flagship univ, but UVA wasn't on a "known list".[/quote]

Are you the same dipshit from CA that also brags about never hearing about Duke until moving East?[/quote]

NP here. This thread is getting ridiculous. Can't we just accept that different people know (or don't know) different things and move on?[/quote]

Sure, as long as folks stop flaunting their ignorance with pride.[/quote]

No need to get so offended. Many people know the Ivy leagues, Stanford, MIT and then it kind of falls off. I didn’t know what Vanderbilt was either. I remember my BIL was considering Vanderbilt for med school and I had no idea where that was.[/quote]

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