I don't think any of these schools have better name recognition than the others. I always tell my DC when they mention the school they attend, and someone responds, "I've never heard of that school." It says a lot more about that person than it does about the school.

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Anonymous wrote:If you’re looking for name recognition don’t go to SLACs.

This was the first response in this thread and it is 100% correct.

Someone is on the pipe again. I'm sorry that SLACs rejected your kid but it is time to move on.

This is your standard response to any post that does not praise LACs. It is rude and unwarranted.

Anonymous wrote:I think all three have the same name recognition. Most of the time the only people who were interested in liberal arts colleges will have heard of these schools. I didn't apply to these schools but did apply to other liberal arts colleges. My sons, who have no interest in liberal arts colleges, are only familiar with liberal arts colleges because of sports. They know NESCAC has a lot of the top liberal arts colleges.

+1 I only really learned about them when DD decided she wanted a small school so we looked at most of the LACs in the mid-Atlantic.

With LACs you aren't going there for wide name recognition. You are going there for a particular learning environment, strength of reputation for grad school, and strength of specific program. DD ended up at a different LAC that nobody has heard of. Except people in her field know it and it has a strong network in DC for that field.

FWIW I'd also never heard of JMU, UMW, CNU, Towson, UMBC, etc. before I moved to the DC area. Just like the LACs, non-flagship public universities are largely regional in reputation. And that's totally fine.

Dickinson College was thee first college created after the U.S. was founded. It was founded by signers of the Declaration of Independence. It’s a name drop for going to graduate school. No doubt there.

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Anonymous wrote:I think all three have the same name recognition. Most of the time the only people who were interested in liberal arts colleges will have heard of these schools. I didn't apply to these schools but did apply to other liberal arts colleges. My sons, who have no interest in liberal arts colleges, are only familiar with liberal arts colleges because of sports. They know NESCAC has a lot of the top liberal arts colleges.

Sensible post. LACs have no name recognition.

Someone is on the pipe again. I'm sorry that LACs rejected your kid but it is time to move on.

Shut up. State Univ have massive name recall and have QS ranking. Who sends their kids to LACs, may be moron like you.

QS is a bullshit ranking designed to make Chinese Universities appear better than they are. It is marginally applicable to grad schools but nothing else. You are an engineer, clever but not thoughtful which will limit your career prospects as you have been trained rather than educated.

Unfortunately, the bolded is true of too many people in our society today.

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Anonymous wrote:I think all three have the same name recognition. Most of the time the only people who were interested in liberal arts colleges will have heard of these schools. I didn't apply to these schools but did apply to other liberal arts colleges. My sons, who have no interest in liberal arts colleges, are only familiar with liberal arts colleges because of sports. They know NESCAC has a lot of the top liberal arts colleges.

Sensible post. LACs have no name recognition.

Someone is on the pipe again. I'm sorry that LACs rejected your kid but it is time to move on.

Shut up. State Univ have massive name recall and have QS ranking. Who sends their kids to LACs, may be moron like you.

QS is a bullshit ranking designed to make Chinese Universities appear better than they are. It is marginally applicable to grad schools but nothing else. You are an engineer, clever but not thoughtful which will limit your career prospects as you have been trained rather than educated.

I've vaguely heard of all of them but if you asked me where they were or which was better I could not tell you.

Anonymous wrote:If you’re looking for name recognition don’t go to SLACs.

This was the first response in this thread and it is 100% correct.

Anonymous wrote:“For those in the know, typically highly educated and wealthy families, they’ve likely heard of all.”

I doubt it.

Probably why you are showing yourself to be neither highly educated or wealthy.

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Anonymous wrote:I think all three have the same name recognition. Most of the time the only people who were interested in liberal arts colleges will have heard of these schools. I didn't apply to these schools but did apply to other liberal arts colleges. My sons, who have no interest in liberal arts colleges, are only familiar with liberal arts colleges because of sports. They know NESCAC has a lot of the top liberal arts colleges.

Sensible post. LACs have no name recognition.

Someone is on the pipe again. I'm sorry that LACs rejected your kid but it is time to move on.

Shut up. State Univ have massive name recall and have QS ranking. Who sends their kids to LACs, may be moron like you.

Originally from the west coast and I hadn't heard of any until we moved here I and I heard about Dickenson. I have never heard of F&M.

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Anonymous wrote:Friend went to Dickinson and then was able to get into UVA Law.

Friend's son went to U of Alabama on a full merit scholarship and is starting at Harvard Law this fall.

DEI admit for the South

Shame on you!

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Anonymous wrote:Friend went to Dickinson and then was able to get into UVA Law.

Friend's son went to U of Alabama on a full merit scholarship and is starting at Harvard Law this fall.

DEI admit for the South

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Anonymous wrote:I think all three have the same name recognition. Most of the time the only people who were interested in liberal arts colleges will have heard of these schools. I didn't apply to these schools but did apply to other liberal arts colleges. My sons, who have no interest in liberal arts colleges, are only familiar with liberal arts colleges because of sports. They know NESCAC has a lot of the top liberal arts colleges.

Sensible post. LACs have no name recognition.

Someone is on the pipe again. I'm sorry that LACs rejected your kid but it is time to move on.

Anonymous wrote:This makes me think they in terms of ROI plus getting a job and networking it’s better to go to a second tier state school.

People who think of education in terms of the schools that they see on TV. That is the type of thinking that resulted in our current presidential situation.