ncram65

Depends on your definition of "isolated", but I think the nearest big city to Dartmouth is Boston and it is about a 2 hour drive.

Unless you count Albany as a big city (and I wouldn't), Boston is also the closest big city to Williams and it's maybe a 3 hour drive.

swat69

If being known in Thailand is what is important, go to Cornell or MIT. They are both very well known there (Cornell has the world's leading Southeast Asia program and MIT is known for its economics department, as well as engineering). Williams is very strong on development economics but the earlier contributor is right: high school and college students in Thailand probably don't know either Dartmouth or Williams. Both are superb places to go to school, and foreign ignorance of even most "name brand" US colleges and universities is as meaningless as it is general.

momrath

Funny story about college prestige in Southeast Asia. We're Americans that live in Indonesia. Whenever I told anyone -- Asians and Western expats alike -- that my son was at Williams I'd get a pitying look as if to say "too bad he couldn't get into a good school." Now that he's planning to go to Cornell for grad school it's thumbs up all the way. Brand recognition is a global phenomenon.

BalletGirl

If you care about what people think in Thailand (or any other parts of Asia) then go to Harvard, MIT, Stanford or Berkeley (maybe Yale). Asians generally have a very narrow definition of "brand".

One of my classmates at Dartmouth, with whom I grew up, was terrrorized throughout high school by her mother who regularly screamed at her while she studied, "Linda, Hrvard, MITee, Yayel! Bizarre but true. Her Mom is convinced she is a failure for attending D.

bcash

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HorseRadish

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