<p>"What about people who do not go to Cornell? "</p>
<p>That’s what you’re more likely to see around here, you’ll see a post of who made dean’s list at the local (not elite) colleges, especially the community college. If it’s the local college that might be viewed as normal, but not from a prestigious college out of area. Because then the newspapers are not routinely being sent that information by the local college, that means somebody’s parent is deliberately individually sending it in, which is IMO boastful.</p>
<p>But that could be a difference, in the Syracuse area it’s possible Cornell is deemed to be a “local college”, local enough anyway, hence these things for Cornell may be more routinely published there than down here.</p>
<p>To me, just getting into Cornell is a bigger deal to many than making Dean’s List at a large percentage of the colleges out there. Sometimes you feel like you might be accused of bragging just for saying where you’re attending college. No need to compound it by citing dean’s list there.</p>
<p>(Also, enjoy it while you have it, I did it both semesters sophomore year then never saw it again).</p>
<p>I think the the local newspapers tend to get that information from the local, highly regional colleges where generally a high proportion of their students are from the local community. You don’t usually see listings for colleges where that’s not the case, around here.</p>