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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Someone on DCUM is trying to make Davidson into something that it's not, i.e., if you haven't heard of it and aren't aspiring to attend, you're an unsophisticated idiot. No offense to Davidson, but it's not the nationally renowned / respected institution that the PP is making it out to be, and that's OK, plenty of schools aren't. [/quote]
[b]It's always been a pretty good regional school. No need to denigrate it or puff it up. It doesn't carry much name recognition outside of its home region, though. I'd never even heard of it before I moved to DC. [/quote][/b]

Kinda like UVA.  :wink: [/quote]
Indeed.

In all seriousness, that was one consideration for me when I was picking colleges way back when. If you're not going to a place like Harvard or Oxford, you need to give serious thought to whether the school you're going to has recognition in the region you're planning to live post-graduation. If you want to live in Tampa, say, a U of Florida degree is more valuable than one from Vassar. [/quote]

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