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I went to school with a very wealthy girl from Chicago. In my days, she was the most worldly person I have ever met. She said she was expected to go to school in the NE, like most students from her school. After college, she went to live in Chicago with her fancy degree from a NE LAC. </p>
<p>I have worked with many different people globally and also traveled to many parts of the world. People outside of US know (heard of) more schools from the NE than midwest or South. There are also a lot of expats living in those countries who graduated from those NE schools. Those alumni are very supportive of each other and their schools. My brother has randomly called people up from his alumni directory wherever he traveled. </p>
<p>Ivies are not the be all and end all, and there are other schools where one could probably get just as good/better education, but globally the names do carry a certain weight. There is an annual Ivy Ball in HKG, <a href=“https://secure.www.alumniconnections.com/olc/pub/COU/event/showEventForm.jsp?form_id=126553[/url]”>https://secure.www.alumniconnections.com/olc/pub/COU/event/showEventForm.jsp?form_id=126553</a> . I see MIT is included too, maybe because it is in the NE. :)</p>