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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid was accepted to Williams and Swarthmore. My favorite comment was "Oh, I never heard of those schools".  Kept me humble.[/quote]

Unless you hang with a lot of boarding school families, those aren’t gonna be on people’s radar. [/quote]

I am a foreigner and already have one kid in college (STEM), so we've done some college research. Never heard of any of those schools. It is probably known to a small group within US. [/quote]

LOL Most educated professionals have certainly heard of Williams, Amherst or Swarthmore just as they know the names Brown, Cornell and Dartmouth.  [/quote]

Sorry, you can LOL as much as you want. I have 3 degrees, so I am an educated professional. Never heard of Williams, Amherst or Swarthmore. I heard about Brown, Cornell, and Dartmouth. As I mentioned before, those schools are known only to americans. Very few foreigners ever heard about them. And I do work with the people who had liberal arts degrees. I assume those schools even less known in STEM fields. [/quote]

University of Idaho has more name recognition abroad than Swarthmore. Only a fool who thinks USA is still gonna be on top in 20 years will pay a quarter of a million for these obscure brands.[/quote]

People that matter know so that's all that really matters, isn't it?[/quote]

no it's not the only thing that matters. 1) people who matter today are not necessarily  the same people who will matter in 20 or 30 years 2) majoritu of graduates of all top schools will be working nowhere close to "people who matter".[/quote]

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