If you’re keeping score at home, Don Faurot 0, Nora Ephron 1.
Dan Faurot 0, Nora Ephron 2.
Re post #the 41,it gave me a chuckle as a friend of my D announced to her she was going to one of the to top LAC’s, Wesleyan. She didn’t realize or know the difference, but the one she was attending was a school in the Macon Georgia area, and not the Wesleyan she thought. Thank goodness I had taught my daughter to smile and nod.
Don Faurot 0, Nora Ephron 3.
But these are very early returns and not a representative precinct.
@Consolation: And I reread the thread (at least from the point Wellesley was mentioned). Could not find that post you were referring to. Mind pointing out the number?
@bclintonk: I expect Ephron to win by a landslide in the CC precincts (on the order of magnitude that both recent Presidential candidates achieved in certain counties).
Heck, my son actually played football at Truman State and even I had to look up Don Faurot. Nora Ephron definitely wins in a landside!
Shuck, I don’t recognize any of the three names and briefly wondered if Ken Norton played the brother on " Mama’s Family." 
Since I had to google both of them, my vote means the score remains at Don Faurot 0, Nora Ephron 3. And this situation really isn’t getting better for me, I thought Ken Norton was the guy on Thirty Something (remember that show?) married to Hope.
So I think my personal score is -3.
But I really do know a lot about colleges, really I do.
And thanks to @PurpleTitan, I now know who Don Fourat is (right there with you @Elliemom), which frankly, I really should since I attended Columbia for two years and went to every game while there. That’s UM Columbia btw. If you don’t know it, that’s 100% ok.
Don Faurot 0, Nora Ephron 4
And we get “Never heard of it” all the time since D attends Mount Holyoke. OTOH we get very positive responses from people who’ve heard of it and know the school’s history and quality.
I recently was making conversation with a nursing aide who told me about the Dirty Dancing remake. She was excited when I told her where D goes to school but all she knew about it was that “Baby’s starting Mount Holyoke in the fall”.
@PurpleTitan , too many posts have disappeared for it to make any sense. Including the one where I said nice things about Truman State, which yes, I have heard of, as well as Black Jack Pershing and Ken Norton. But as far as Don Fourat is concerned, I had to google him. So counting both of us, Don Faurot 1, Nora Ephron 5.
Yup on googling Don Faurot…Don 1, Nora 6.
son goes to Sewanee so I get this a bit here. But I don’t get it when talking to people who are…how should I say this?.. highly educated and very successful. They all know of the school and immediately start talking about how they wished their kids would have chosen Sewanee.
Son works at the most prominent country club in town. Members always come by to talk to him and the other college kids working there. He said the conversation invariably turns to “what schools do you guys go to”?. They go around and the kids say big state u, prominent state private, then my son says Sewanee. He laughs because he says the members then spend the rest of the conversation talking about how great Sewanee is and how cool it is that he choose to go there. The other kids look at him and just shake their head. Sort of funny.
ok level with me people…did Olin and Harvey Mudd even exist when some of us were applying to college? I seriously wonder about this! and, put me in the Nora Ephron side but a no on the Don F side…
@thingamajig, Mudd was founded 1955, Olin 1997.
@bclintonk "Me: “No, Haverford. It’s a small liberal arts college in Pennsylvania, just outside Philadelphia.”
Interlocutor (no longer impressed, face going blank): “Oh . . . . never heard of it. Well, how did she end up way out there? Do you have family in Pennsylvania or something?” (probably thinking “too bad she couldn’t get into the state U,” but too polite to say it)."
^This!^
Doctor: (Just finished telling me about his D1 going to Wisconsin.) So, where is your daughter going to college?
Me: The University of Pennsylvania
Doctor: Why is she way out there? That’s a long way to go for a state school. Why would she go so far?
Me: We visited a lot of schools, and she thought it was the best fit for her.
Doctor: It seems like a lot of hassle to be that far away, plus the extra expenses of travel and out of state tuition.
Me: Smile and nod.
I had the clear impression that he thinks that she had to go there because she was not able to get into a closer State U. However, I don’t feel the need to defend the school or inform people about it unless they ask about the school, I just answer the questions. The one exception is when occasionally someone decides to lecture me about Jerry Sandusky. Then I will explain it to them.
So anyone who isn't familiar with it is an unsuccessful dolt? Maybe highly educated people are just more well versed in small talk than people with lower levels of education and skilled enough in conversing that they can draw out details from you without you realizing they're doing it.
I don't think knowledge of a particular set of colleges has anything to do with intelligence or success. It's based on experience, opportunity, and access to information. I've learned a lot of the names mentioned here by reading this site but they aren't relevant to me, so why would I know anything more about them than that?
^^. Well said. There used to be a poster ( I believe she was banned ) on CC who used to say " the people who matter know my kid’s school"— how snooty.
One of mine goes to a school well known on CC but not so much in my area. Don’t care! He’s doing very well and knows what a great education he is getting. That’s all that matters.
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.
Which liberal arts college in PA are you referring to?