Tell this west coaster: how well-known is Davidson?

HappyAlumnus
Sun, 10 Apr 2016 20:24:19 +0000

I echo what others in this thread say: people who don’t know anything about schools won’t know about it, but people who are well-educated themselves will know of Davidson and respect it.

When I was looking at law schools, I recall telling people that I was looking at Columbia University, the Ivy League school in NYC. People in the Southeast thought that I meant the University of South Carolina at Columbia. Those types wouldn’t know anything about Davidson, but what does it matter?

I don’t live in the Southeast, but people outside of the Southeast who know about schools (basically any middle/upper middle class person who’s had children look at competitive schools) knows about Davidson.