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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]95% of people don’t know Amherst or Williams, let alone “mid tier” so who cares? (Yes, I know people in DC do, but I’m talking about the real world).[/quote]
People who matter probably do know of these schools.[/quote]
How do you define “who matters”?[/quote]
Exactly what you think it means. People with knowledge, power, and status.[/quote]

Maybe people with knowledge, power, and status [b]who live in the northeas[/b]t, but there are lots of other people with that who live in the rest of the county who will have no idea. State schools will carry a lot more cache in these areas than LACs. No dig on LACs, it's just the way it is.[/quote]

Exactly. My HS north of NYC sent people to the Williams, Amherst, Colby, etc. and they are excellent schools. If you want to work in Manhattan or DC, people have heard of them and know the rigor. But in the Midwest, nobody, except from a exclusive suburb will have heard of them.[/quote]

The fact that the people in the  “exclusive suburbs” know these schools sort of proves the point. [/quote]

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