When does an up & coming university finally become “elite”?

MomofWildChild
Wed, 26 Aug 2015 21:26:00 +0000

When we moved to Tennessee when S was starting college, people here were shocked that we would send him to Penn instead of to Univ of Tennessee (I still can’t call it “UT”, coming from Texas). They wondered if he was going there because of Joe Paterno! I repeatedly had to explain that it was not Penn State, but Penn, the Ivy League School. They weren’t impressed.