"This school is only well-known in this region..."

Pizzagirl
Tue, 07 Jul 2009 08:04:58 +0000

Yes, with the internet, one can find out info about any school across the nation. But very people in the real world are all that interested in colleges, unless they are in academia. Most people on the street know their state flagships and other schools near them, they may have vaguely heard of some of the “majors” such as HYP as being really good schools, and then they pay attention to the names of the schools that they hear on ESPN or sports channels.

So, yes, by that token, the average person on the East Coast doesn’t really know Northwestern and the average person in the midwest has heard of USC for sports and maybe pretty girls.

That’s ok, though. Who cares? The average person (who doesn’t live in Pennsylvania) wouldn’t know the difference between Penn and Penn State, but so what? Wouldn’t stop me from going to or sending my kids to Penn.