Us too! I have one at Mount Holyoke, and we’re in MA, and we STILL get blank looks sometimes. And my daughter definitely was steered away from womens’ colleges by her guidance counselor, and I got a bunch of people saying “why would she go there? She can do better.” But it’s a perfect fit and she’s thriving.
I also have one at a great LAC in eastern PA, and very few people from MA have heard of it. Yet again, it’s a perfect fit.
In our town, a bunch of these parents who sent their kids to bigger, more well-known schools are now dealing with their kids transferring to smaller schools they should have looked at in the first place. Fit matters.