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06-25-2009, 02:21 PM
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| List the best known named schools where the average american doesn't..............
......even know what state they are located in.
For example:
Dartmouth
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06-25-2009, 02:23 PM
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Brown, Yale, Cornell
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06-25-2009, 02:23 PM
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I get that for Brown all the time as well.
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06-25-2009, 02:25 PM
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Vanderbilt? I have no clue where that is.
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06-25-2009, 02:30 PM
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Emory, Rice.
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06-25-2009, 02:30 PM
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Northwestern (Washington? Oregon?)
Columbia (from where I am, everyone thinks you are talking about Mizzou)
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06-25-2009, 02:38 PM
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Northwestern.
Average person:<That's in Washington, right?>
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06-25-2009, 02:40 PM
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Not sure why this was taken out of the "college search" area? I mean, that's exactly what it's all about! LOL.
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06-25-2009, 02:57 PM
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SMU, Johns Hopkins, Carnegie Mellon, Brigham Young, Notre Dame
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06-25-2009, 03:17 PM
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Rice, without a doubt.
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06-25-2009, 03:20 PM
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Lots of TV viewers watching the NCAA Basketball Tournament March-time scratch their heads wondering where the heck Gonzaga University is located.
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06-25-2009, 03:31 PM
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WUSTL..
(yup, the average american wouldn't know its in St. louis...= / )
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06-25-2009, 03:35 PM
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Berkeley..."that's in Minnesota, right?"..."is that in Boston?" (yeah, I know, Berklee)..."where's that?...there are a lot of them, right?"
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06-25-2009, 03:44 PM
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The average American would probably name the wrong state for Miami University.
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06-25-2009, 04:34 PM
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Someone I know didn't know what state CalTech was in...
Then again, he also thought "inauguration" was somebody's name.
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