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

student01
Tue, 07 Jul 2009 05:28:00 +0000

I was lookin through the USC topics and I heard a lot about how people think that USC is only considered well-known in Southern California. I’d like to broaden the topic to any school that is considered prestigious only in a certain region.

Why do people say that these days? With the internet, can’t anyone find out info about just any school across the nation, regardless of region? What’s the deal with “USC not being well known in the east coast” or “Northwestern not well-known in the west coast” or “UCLA not well known outside of california” etc…?

In fact, I live in Rhode Island and I know these schools pretty well (or at least read a lot of info about them). Should it be taken with a grain of salt when someone says that so-and-so school is only respected/known in so-and-so region?