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<p>I was born and bred in CT and have lived in the Northeast for most of my life, and McGill has always had a much higher reputation than Fordham. McGill always had the rep of a great university with one of the continent’s best medical schools and so forth. Fordham was generally regarded as a place where boys from Catholic school would go.</p>
<p>I am not saying that this has <strong>anything</strong> to do with reality in terms of the comparative quality of the undergraduate education, then or now. But I really cannot agree that the Fordham name is so very powerful in the northeast. In fact, I think that outside of the metropolitan NYC area it is fairly obscure.</p>