Underappreciated Colleges

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Sun, 08 Feb 2015 20:29:39 +0000

Historically students on the east coast (and particularly those in the northeast) stayed there for colleges. Why wouldn’t they? That is where most of the oldest (and seemingly most prestigious) private schools were. The colleges in the other regions worked hard to attract what they considered to be the elite east coast students. Interestingly the relative lack of private colleges in the middle of the country and the west probably encouraged the development of state schools with the result that flagships outside the northeast tend to be far stronger than those in the northeast and mid atlantic states.