I know this is an old thread, but regarding prestige, my daughter started at Hamilton. A top 20 LAC. It is less than 5 hours from us. Zero people from our large city that we told where she was going had ever heard of it. She transferred to St. Olaf and I have found in my entirely un-scientific research that it has much more name recognition. Even if it may be because people say hey isn’t that where Rose was from.