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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People get Georgetown, George Washington, and George Mason confused. People get Penn state and Penn wrong.  People get Dickinson and Fairley Dickinson wrong.  People are largely uneducated. [/quote]

I don’t think that makes people “uneducated.” There are thousands of universities in the country and except for Harvard, most people have not heard of most of them.  People in Pennsylvania and the East coast will know the difference between all the Penns.

And I had never heard of “Fairley Dickinson” and I have an advanced degree so I just googled it.  Even if you spell it correctly (Fairleigh Dickinson), it’s not a school that I ever heard of.  I have a vague notion that the other Dickinson exists and is a liberal arts school. [/quote]

All of this, except that I think most people have also heard of Yale and likely Princeton.

I had also never heard of Farleigh Dickinson or maybe thought it was the full name of the other Dickinson. This sounds obnoxious, but I had the opposite problem: I was only ever looking at schools more prestigious; I actually have limited knowledge of schools outside the Top 100 that aren’t good at sports.[/quote]

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