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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Another NC native. I hadn’t heard of any of them until I started the college search with my first kid.   Only exception is a former babysitter who was an athletic recruit to Lehigh. And my first thought was: wow, sad such a promising kid is going somewhere so random. [/quote]

Wow, sad you're such a condescending ignoramus.[/quote]

Not really. No one from my high school class (and I went to GS 2 HS in rural NC with W AP classes with fewer than 10 kids in each) went outside NC for college. Zero students. The class ahead of me one student went to GE.   More kids enlisted than went to college. And many more went to work in the textile factories.   We had one Duke, one Davidson, one Wake Forest, a handful go to UNC and the rest went to non-flagship NC state schools. I had an affluent friend who probably had undosagnosed learning disabilities who went to Guilford.  No one suggested I could leave the state, so I never looked at OOS schools without a brand name, especially outside the South, where I live. That makes me like 90% of Americans. If you want name recognition, here it is.  Most Americans have not heard of these schools unless they live near them.

Now that I’ve done a college search, I realize that Lehigh is a great school and not at all an easy admission and our babysitter had indeed done very well.  And Dickerson can be a great fit for the right kid who is a solid hard worker, but not a superstar.

I’m also the person who said if you know you know.  It doesn’t matter if random people in the rural South have heard of these schools. It matters if they fit your kid’s academic profile, if it’s a good fit, and if the schools has a good placement record in your kids area of interest.

Most people don’t dissect the USNWR, especially the liberal arts colleges, unless they have a high performing kid and live in an area where it’s common and accepted for kids to go to college more than a couple of hours from home.  They don’t care and you don’t need to impress them. [/quote]

NP Interesting story! I think most of us got your subtext of your initial post even though it was lost on the PP. So, sorry you had to spell it all out, but still very interesting.[/quote]

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