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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is an interesting thread to me.  I am from a small Virginia town (but southern, not Nova), and when I was applying to colleges 30 years ago, the kids who applied to or went to Davidson were the wealthy, preppy, often popular kids who were close to the top of of the class.  We thought of it almost like an Ivy.  Well, not like an Ivy.  We didn't really think about Ivies, if I'm being honest.  It was on par with Duke.  Washington and Lee and University of Richmond were a bit less prestigious than those two but attracted the same type kids.

I remember looking up the stats for all of those schools once when it was time for me to apply to schools and being shocked that they weren't that hard to get into.  We definitely regarded them with much more prestige than their selectivity would suggest.

Obviously that was 30 years ago, but FWIW.  We didn't see Elon as prestigious at all.  Or High Point.  Both have changed a lot in the last 3 decades.[/quote]

When I was applying, high school in SC, Davidson is where you went to be a dentist. Furman and Richmond would have been the safeties[/quote]

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