<p>Title says it all, but please put down what country (US, Korea, China, Turkey, Spain, etc.) you are from, and how well known Yale is in your respective countries.</p>
<p>Just for fun, I would like to know. Is it almost as well known as Harvard? More than Princeton? Less?</p>
<p>Reason I ask this is because Harvard carries almost a universal name where Martians will probably know of Harvard, and I was wondering if Yale can compare, domestically or internationally.</p>
<p>Thanks all!</p>
<p>More known than Princeton, less known than Harvard. If you go to Yale and tell your friends in China they will wonder if the doctor dropped you on the head as you were coming out :eyeroll:.</p>
<p>What’s your true reason of asking this though? Do you want to impress that dude that you see once every blue moon whose presence is of no consequence to your life (and if you REALLY care, odds are he’ll be impressed by Yale anyways)? Or do you want to impress that employer or grad school, for which a Yale degree will more than suffice ten times over? These threads confuse me. Is everything an ego war?</p>
<p>Most ordinary people know very little about Yale (and the vast majority of other academically prestigious colleges without big sports programs). Once, when taking a taxi to the airport to fly back to school, the driver asked me where I went. When I told him Yale, he’d clearly never heard of it, and then started bragging to me about his son’s attendance at the local community college. If you’ll be bothered by people on the street not knowing how prestigious your school is, I recommend you go to your state’s flagship public - unless you’re from the Northeast (I’m from California) it will almost certainly have a bigger reputation than any Ivy League type college with the possible (though by no means certain) exception of Harvard.</p>
<p>^ wow that’s strange. I tell randos on the street all the time where I’m at school. I don’t think a person yet has failed to possess some knowledge of the university. What’s more, they’re usually in awe - clearly aware of its prestige.</p>
<p>Yale? What’s that?</p>
<p>Yale was frequently mentioned–disparagingly–by Mr. Howell on “Gilligan’s Island.” I’d say that makes it very famous.</p>
<p>LOL: most of the time, I find myself downplaying my Yale roots – too many people have misconceptions of the place and assume I’m some Ivy blue-blood. I don’t give a flip what most people think/feel about Yale nor do most Yalies I know. I know what it gave me and I’m 100% satisfied with that. </p>
<p>(I guess if its reputation started to plummet – I might have to change my thinking – but that won’t happen)</p>
<p>As for popular culture’s random mentioning of Yale or Harvard, during an on campus screening of the great movie “Some Like It Hot” a gangster comedy set in the 20s, a mob boss is confronted while standing by his henchmen. He replies that all his goons were “Harvard men”. The Yale audience erupted in howls!</p>
<p>Finally to the OP: to people that matter, they know what Yale is. For others, why are you so worried about impressing them? Sheesh.</p>
<p>I shudder to think that there are kids out there who pick Harvard over Yale not because they feel more comfortable at Harvard or because it is more inclined to their academic interests, but because they care about impressing that random person just that tad more than they would have if their school were Yale. Not really talking to you OP, because it seems you’re only asking “for fun,” but there are most definitely folks like that on these boards.</p>
<p>They make great locks, although I prefer Schlage.</p>
<p>QMP ran into some Californians who thought that Yale was purely fictional, based on Gilmore Girls.</p>
<p>^^ that is sad. So sad. Im from Southern Ontario in Canada, and literally have had people ask me if Yale is in Toronto (They assume its a York affiliate)… a lot of people have at least heard the name Yale, and if not, then throwing the words Ivy League tends to jog their memory. </p>
<p>Mind you, I dont really tell people unless they ask directly. I just say Im going to CT for sports. haha</p>
<p>quant: that is pretty funny. The bottom line is this: we can talk all day about people who don’t know much about Yale. 100% guarantee you that they aren’t going to be the ones hiring you, looking to appoint you to positions, or admit you into their graduate programs. As I said, those that matter will. Those that are really tangential to you, don’t need to.</p>
<p>If this makes you guys feel better, my sister goes to Yale and we went to the Shanghai World Expo this summer and she presented student ID, and the girl was like “WOWWW <em>Yale</em>!!!”</p>
<p>And had this awed expression on her face. I was quite jealous.</p>
<p>Mr. Burns is a Yalie. That should be universal enough for just about anyone who (i) is alive and (ii) owns a television set.</p>
<p>I was tutoring a math student and she asked where my daughter was going to college. I said, “Yale.” She said, “That’s almost like going to Harvard.” That shut me up.</p>
<p>Yale is a little less know than Harvard, here in the Netherlands. Other topuniversities (like Princeton, Stanford, etc.) are very unknown.</p>
<p>It’s America’s #1 “Brainiac” school: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/yale-university/998842-yale-ranked-americas-1-brainiac-school.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/yale-university/998842-yale-ranked-americas-1-brainiac-school.html</a></p>
<p>Case closed. 'Nuff said. That’s all she wrote. The fat lady has sung. Yahtzee.</p>
<p>I’m a Yale (undergrad) alumnus and so have no reason to play down Yale’s rep.</p>
<p>But while living in Latin America I noticed most people had never heard of Yale. By contrast everyone had heard of Harvard. </p>
<p>So if what makes you excited is having your school recognized worldwide, go to Harvard! Please.</p>
<p>where i’m from EVERYONE knows it.
…like, literally everyone.</p>
<p>^^
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