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<p>This is overly harsh. Someone insulting your favorite college does not justify making such a highly personal insult.</p>
<p>WW- It was a compliment, not an insult. I think UW grads are very smart ;)</p>
<p>^ no it wasn’t…and please do not use any more creepy winky emoticons. thanks in advance.</p>
<p>There must be a full moon tonight…</p>
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<p>How about California University and Indiana University (of Pennsylvania).</p>
<p>Before they changed the name, I used to love tripping up my California friends by asking them if they knew where California State Teachers College was located.</p>
<p>And how about telling people you go to Haverford. “Uh, Harvard?”</p>
<p>Sam Lee, I lived in the Northeast until 15 years ago and got unknowing reactions to NW ALL the time. I am ready to believe that this has changed with more sophistication and the echo boom overflow from the Ivy League. I know several old friends in the East who ended up sending their kids to Northwestern. It also may be that you circulate among a more college-savvy crowd than I did.
I stand by the reactions to the name “Northwestern” that I have heard. I haven’t heard it confused with Northeastern, though.</p>
<p>I, too, lived in Boston several decades back and found great ignorance re Northwestern. It seemed like people assumed it was somehow connected to Northeastern, and because one was in Boston and one in the Midwest, it was assumed Northeastern was superior.</p>
<p>I also found great ignorance in the Boston area re places like Williams, Amherst, and Smith. There were so many colleges in the Boston/Worcester area, that even the smartest local kids I knew in high school, junior college, and college there usually seemed to find plenty of variety within an hour of home. One odd thing was that the few people that did leave the state tended to go to larger publics, especially New England state flagships (U of Vermont, UNH, UConn, URI, & Maine were considered pretty cool places to go, while UMass was considered a disgrace to settle for).</p>
<p>Then there is Wesleyan and Wellesley. My nephew and niece, both Wesleyan students, say they got “Isn’t that a girls’ school”.
Three years ago I was at the Wesleyan commencement where candidate Barack Obama filled in for an ill Ted Kennedy. He started by congratulating the school’s president for completing his first year at Wellesley. He didn’t realize his mistake until after the speech.
I was at my second Wesleyan commencement this May and believe me, the slip was mentioned more than once in the ceremony.</p>
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I heard it was he showed up at Cornell University but had gotten accepted at Cornell College (in Iowa).</p>
<p>I think I heard that as well, Erins Dad. IIRC, there was an article or something about this, and it talked about students, often internationals (but not always) who discovered they applied to the wrong U of Penn or Cornell, etc. But I seem to recall the Colgate/Colby discussion because they talked about being in NY and discovering they were supposed to be in Maine.</p>
<p>did not expect my question to blow up into a huge debate lol.</p>
<p>interesting posts</p>
<p>something to think about… do employers look differently on student A vs B if…
A) grew up on the coast, went to school in the midwest, wants to work back on the coast
B) grew up in the midwest, went to school in the midwest, wants to work on the coast</p>
<p>on a side note, NU is one of the most prestigious univ in the nation (#12 according to USNews) and it gets confused with Northeastern? it matters who you’re asking too…</p>