<p>The other day while I was getting my hair cut I started a conversation with my barber. After a few minutes I said I had to go back to school soon and he asked me which school I went to. I said Stern and got a blank stare and a "Where's that"? I said it was part of NYU and he was like "Oh yea NYU, I've heard of that". </p>
<p>Does anyone else get mad when the average person does not know about your school despite how good it is? Post your stories and list your school here!</p>
<p>Actually, I enjoy being at a school nobody's heard of. If I <em>really</em> want someone to realize how good it is, I can rattle off stats and such. Sometimes it's nice to be hidden. </p>
<p>I worked as manual labor this summer, and I'm sure I would have taken a lot of crap as "the Harvard kid" (I didn't apply to Harvard, it's just an example). Nobody harassed me as "the Olin kid" though. Same deal if I had picked Williams.</p>
<p>Sadly, I will not have that problem. While I want to attend some little school that no one knows of, my mom's making me to apply to several schools just because "they are name schools" it doesn't matter if it's known, as long as you like it.</p>
<p>Well, hopefully you're going to Stern to get a good education, not so you can have your barber tell you how smart you are, haha.</p>
<p>i'm going to NU next year, and i've had both reactions, some people are like, wow its a great school!! or i've never heard of it...</p>
<p>funny thing is that i'm in taiwan for the month, and oddly enough, more people know of NU here than in the states. or at least, of those that i talked to. interesting, no?</p>
<p>I had the same barber experience last summer... "Brown? Where is that? On an island??" Then later in the conversation...
"So, does anybody from your high school go to those Ivy League schools?"
"...yes... some of them do..."</p>
<p>She was a recent Chinese immigrant, so I can certainly understand... but the guy on the airplane whose face was completely blank when I mentioned Brown... then, "Oh! Yeah, I think I've heard of that school... they won some kind of football championship, right?" (We won the Ivy League championship last year, which was not so big of a deal on campus, but I guess this guy thought it was).</p>
<p>actually now that i think about it, i was like that too. within the course of several (think:2) months, i figured out that although i had never heard of NU in my life, it is a ridiculously good school and such. thus, it went from one of the lowest ones on my list to one of the tops (of course, the fact that it was the only private school i got into might have something to do with it -___-) but now i'm really excited to go. which is kind of dorky, becuase i didn't want to apply. period. haha, i was like, who's ever even heard of that school?</p>
<p>of course, this was coming from a kid who, going into freshman year, thought that calpoly was the same as berkley, and going into senior year, never hearing the names "yale, cornell, columbia, duke, princeton, caltech..."</p>
<p>maybe us recent grads just know too much about college =D</p>
<p>Great stories, keep 'em coming.</p>
<p>Another I have is during late senior year after I'd been accepted. I never could bring myself to say "NYU" rather than "Stern" so I got a lot of blank stares and "Where is that?" from my students. The worst was my math teacher though. She was always a hard@ss on homework and grading and was very tough on me since she knew I didn't care about her class anymore now that the school year was almost over. She asked me what school I was going to if any and I said "Stern". She said "I thought for sure with your scores you could go to an Ivy". I lectured her for 10 minutes about rankings/prestige and how I'd pick my school over any Ivy aside from Harvard. A few weeks later I found out she had referred me to my counselor for "Anger management issues" and I had to spend an hour in the office explaining what happened. What a #(#@.</p>
<p>ha YES. Everyone gets BC mixed up with BU when there is obviously no competition. </p>
<p>Plus, no one down here in missouri has even heard of Boston College. I've even been asked "where's that?" before.</p>
<p>ya.. I was just gonna say that it doens't matter whether your average person knows the rep of your school... as long as your employer does ;)</p>
<p>Why would people ask where Boston College is? Obviously it's in Boston. Schools like Rice I can understand.</p>
<p>I can gauge how much people who about colleges when I tell them my list.</p>
<p>UChicago - if you haven't heard of it, you don't know much
Harvey Mudd - if you have heard of it you know a lot</p>
<p>believe it or not, some people have never heard of Stanford. or maybe they have but don't know wbout its rep. usually it happens with less educated people, but i've gotten some everyday people not knowing. </p>
<p>it's soooo such a relief somtimes when you kind of hold your breath and answer "stanford". some people are like "oh ok, where's that." "in cali". oh wow, that's far. and that'll be it. i love that. </p>
<p>it's so awkward when people are like "wow. you must be really smart. congratulations......etc". i mean, i jut say "yeah". it's not that i'm ashamed, i'm really proud of stanford. but it IS weird to always get labeled as a genius (when i'm not).</p>
<p>The fact that you said stern and not NYU makes you look snobby. That would be like saying wharton instead of upenn or ross instead of umich, both reputable schools that have better business schools. Don't be ashamed to just say NYU...and as far as the average person, they won't know your school unless its in the area or is ivy league, or they happen to have a friend who attended.</p>
<p>many people get the schools mixed up.</p>
<p>Upenn = Penn State
Conn College = Uconn
Umich = Michigan State</p>
<p>Yea but even if I say NYU some people think it is a state school. By the way i assure you most of the Wharton kids say Wharton instead of Penn and most Stern kids say Stern instead of NYU. I think Ross w/ Umich and Tepper with CMU are the only exceptions but that is because Umich kids usually don't get into Ross until they transfer and CMU kids are more intellectual in that they don't care too much about prestige to differentiate.</p>
<p>A friend's mother had never heard of Dartmouth. When I told her, and said it was in New Hampshire, she gave me this look of pity. She was in shock when she found out I'd turned down some schools she had heard of.</p>
<p>Them: "So where do you go to school?"
Me: "Northwestern."
<em>Blank stare/awkward smile</em>
Me: "It's right outside of Chicago."
Them : "Ohhh..." <em>nervous chuckle</em></p>
<p>OR</p>
<p>Me: "Northwestern University."
Them: "Oh yeah, that's a great school! That's in Boston, right?"
Me: "No, that's Northeastern."
Them: "Ohhh..." <em>nervous chuckle</em></p>
<p>that's my conversation with strangers 90% of the time. east coasters don't seem to know of NU as much. ah well. Northwestern is better in stats anyway (no offense to any of you Northeasterners).</p>
<p>I seriously don't think I've met anyone yet who has heard of Harvey Mudd before. I've probably been asked dozens of times where I'm going.</p>
<p>"Harvey mudd college"
awkward silence
"it's uhhh in california..."
"oh california!!!"
then they just start talking about how cool california is, which makes me mad</p>
<p>just to add to guapocarlos:</p>
<p>WashU stl = U Washington</p>
<p>and basically nobody around here has heard of Case Western, which i'm very proud to be attending.</p>
<p>jeez guys who gives a ****.... just worry about your employers knowing where you got your degree</p>