<p>Lejeune, you do know that in America more people have heard about Notre Dame, USC, and UT Austin than Brown, Dartmouth, and pretty much every LAC. Americans have football, I guess Koreans have ... US academics?</p>
<p>"Americans have football, I guess Koreans have ... US academics?"</p>
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<p>Yep, you're right on.</p>
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the 2-3% of the population that actually considers studying in the US may actually give a crap about those rankings.
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<p>I think you perfectly understood my point. So that means Americans:football = Koreans:USNews rankings... if only 2-3% of the American population enjoys football like the 2-3% of Koreans who care about US academics. Very smart, I think the your education has paid off.</p>
<p>Oh and Johnnyk, I forgot to mention, I don't know when you were here, but almost no one in their right mind wears Eland in Korea. I may have seen a store about four years ago, but that one closed. So not even the Harvard and Yale sweatshirts are very popular here.</p>
<p>But actually it seems it really won't matter what I'll say, seeing as how people seem to enjoy it more to just go along with a stereotype and ridicule an entire country than to rectify a wrong perception.</p>
<p>Yeah, so Koreans broadcast USNews rankings on live television. Ask the guy who spent 2 summers there.</p>
<p>Lejeune, chill out, I didn't mean to make fun of you.</p>
<p>You were saying that Harvard and Yale are the only American schools known in Korea, and that most people don't know about Duke Penn Dartmouth Brown and other Ivies.</p>
<p>The same is true in America, most people don't know the names of most academically strong Universities.</p>
<p>But most people in the U.S. do know about Penn, and think very highly of JoePa and the Nittany Lions.</p>
<p>:D</p>
<p>I never heard about "Emory" or "Rice" before I came to this forum, I first thought Emory was a type of rock (im only applying for around the northeast)</p>
<p>how did u find out when they r going to come out?</p>
<p>Before the horrible massacre at VT, most Americans were probably unaware of VT... I think people spend too much time worrying about whether Joe Schmoe has heard of my "school"</p>
<p>Unless Joe Schmoe will be giving me a job or admitting me into their grad program, I could care less.</p>
<p>"how did u find out when they r going to come out?"</p>
<p>-I suppose it would be just too easy to just go to the website and look....</p>
<p>"Unless Joe Schmoe will be giving me a job or admitting me into their grad program, I could care less."</p>
<p>You don't think that there are more Joe Schmoes in the country than people heavily informed about different colleges?</p>
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To deny that there is a wealthy and influential portion of the Korean population that is obsessed with prestige, status, ranking is silly.
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<p>And how does this make them any different from the "wealthy and influential portion" of the US pop.?</p>
<p>Btw, the Korean elite would still rather go to SNU (for the connections) than study abroad.</p>
<p>In addition, there are probably more Korean students at well-regarded state research universities than the top private schools.</p>