Anonymous wrote:LACs simply aren’t on the general public’s radar, especially outside of their regions. You think normal people on the East Coast know about the existence of Grinell?

No, but highly-educated people often do.

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Anonymous wrote:Name thr college or this is meaningless.

I’m trying to stay anonymous. It’s one of Colby, Bates, Bowdoin.

LOL. I really don't think you're likely to out your child as one of 500 entering freshman. Anyway, those schools are all fairly well known. I thought you were going to say something way, way more obscure.

I wouldn’t say that. They’re known by people “in the know.” They’re NOT widely known by most teenagers, and they definitely don’t have the same name recognition as large universities.

But, OP’s kid should feel a little pride that she is moving on up in the world. Congrats to them!

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Anonymous wrote:OP -- just tell your daughter that any well- educated person will have heard of all of these schools. It's that simple.

That’s simply not true. I have two degrees from a top public, but I’ve never heard of one of these. I don’t know anyone who attended them. No shade at OP’s DD, but I couldn’t afford private so I never researched private schools. OP, I think telling her that most people can’t afford these schools is more accurate. After looking them up, it’s very impressive that she got in. ❤️

Let me fix this for you:
“I have two degrees from a top public, so I’ve never heard of one of these.”

LACs simply aren’t on the general public’s radar, especially outside of their regions. You think normal people on the East Coast know about the existence of Grinell?

Didn’t Tony Soprano go on college visits to Maine and kill someone there? Have DD introduce the school by saying, “remember that Soprano’s episode where…”

Anonymous wrote:OP -- just tell your daughter that any well- educated person will have heard of all of these schools. It's that simple.

That’s simply not true. I have two degrees from a top public, but I’ve never heard of one of these. I don’t know anyone who attended them. No shade at OP’s DD, but I couldn’t afford private so I never researched private schools. OP, I think telling her that most people can’t afford these schools is more accurate. After looking them up, it’s very impressive that she got in. ❤️

I know a guy from South Dakota who went to Yale and people thought he was moving a couple towns away to Yale, SD.

That tells us how much publicity matters. There is a reason characters are made to wear Ivy shirts in movies and TV shows.

My kid got into Amherst and not many knew about it. People who are in community college or state school scene, don't know much about out of state colleges other than Harvard or Oxford.

My cousin's DD was going to Columbia and her aunt was upset that they are sending a teen to an unsafe South American country.

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Anonymous wrote:Name thr college or this is meaningless.

I’m trying to stay anonymous. It’s one of Colby, Bates, Bowdoin.

Do people have trouble pronouncing it?

If not, does it make one think of cheese?

Or a motel?

I was thinking of going a little R-Rated with that one. Glad I didn’t.

I was curious and just found out that r-ratings did not come out until 1968. So originally, it was not R-Rated. Maybe OP’s DD likes the movie?

I think you are missing my point. When I was in high school in Mass, there were more than a few off-color jokes that played off the name this particular college.

Do tell! Surely you can creatively sanitize.

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Anonymous wrote:Name thr college or this is meaningless.

I’m trying to stay anonymous. It’s one of Colby, Bates, Bowdoin.

Do people have trouble pronouncing it?

If not, does it make one think of cheese?

Or a motel?

I was thinking of going a little R-Rated with that one. Glad I didn’t.

I was curious and just found out that r-ratings did not come out until 1968. So originally, it was not R-Rated. Maybe OP’s DD likes the movie?

I think you are missing my point. When I was in high school in Mass, there were more than a few off-color jokes that played off the name this particular college.

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Anonymous wrote:Name thr college or this is meaningless.

I’m trying to stay anonymous. It’s one of Colby, Bates, Bowdoin.

Oh please woman. Don't you have a job or something to do? Please work on being a less unserious person.

Can the highly-educated people from New England (not the northeast; New Englanders look down upon those from the mid-Atlantic, and DC is thought of as the South) please explain to me what this phrase means? I am ashamed to admit that I have never heard it before.

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Anonymous wrote:Name thr college or this is meaningless.

I’m trying to stay anonymous. It’s one of Colby, Bates, Bowdoin.

Do people have trouble pronouncing it?

If not, does it make one think of cheese?

Or a motel?

I was thinking of going a little R-Rated with that one. Glad I didn’t.

I was curious and just found out that r-ratings did not come out until 1968. So originally, it was not R-Rated. Maybe OP’s DD likes the movie?

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Anonymous wrote:Name thr college or this is meaningless.

I’m trying to stay anonymous. It’s one of Colby, Bates, Bowdoin.

Oh please woman. Don't you have a job or something to do? Please work on being a less unserious person.