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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Harvey Mudd? Insiders know it's great, but normies have never heard of it and the name sounds sus to them. A true stealth school: zero branding with a silly name, so undetected by normie radar.[/quote]

Normies also don't know that it ranks #12 nationally in liberal arts colleges according to the obscure USNWR, and that they only admit about one out of ten applicants because no one knows about it. Hard to find this stuff out.[/quote]
Okay, at least that's an empirical objection, rather than a complete misunderstanding of the point. But now we're back to the earlier issue: the OP obviously wasn't asking about schools so obscure that no one could possibly learn about them! It's comparative: Mudd is more obscure-to-normies than other schools that are not significantly better. Maybe I'm wrong, though. I haven't actually done a survey in Walmart. For all I know, the average Walmart shopper regularly consults the USNWR LAC rankings. More to the point, don't forget that many kids apply to college without even knowing what a 'liberal arts college' is (most of my kid's peers are in that category), so they'd never think to consult that list, even if they consulted USNWR. (Also, I think Mudd's acceptance rate is closer to 15%.)[/quote]

Not 15, it's 12%. [/quote]

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