<p>I have researched all of these schools. I just want to know the general public opinion of these colleges. </p>
<p>Kenyon College
Illinois Wesleyan University
Denison University
Knox College
DePauw University
Lake Forest College
Centre College
Kalamazoo College
Beloit College
Rhodes College
Lawrence University
Truman State University</p>
<p>They are all 2nd and 3rd tier decent LAC schools for the most part. I like Kalamazoo, Beloit, Depauw and Centre.</p>
<p>Beloit is actually tier 1 - don’t know about the others.</p>
<p>Rhodes College is great academically, although I’m not a big fan of their social life.</p>
<p>I believe you asked this question in another thread. If you’re not getting enough responses why don’t you post in each of those school’s forums?</p>
<p>All pretty much unknown on the East Coast.</p>
<p>Tier One (any of these, will provide you with one of the best educations offered to undergrads, vary in prestige and selectivity though):
Kalamazoo College
Beloit College
Kenyon College
Knox College
Lawrence University</p>
<p>Tier Two (Also great options, great educations offered):
Rhodes College
Illinois Wesleyan University
Centre College
Denison University</p>
<p>Tier Three (Good Educations):
DePauw University
Lake Forest College
Truman State University</p>
<p>All pretty much unknown on the East Coast.</p>
<p>I have to admit that worked. I normally wouldn’t have even glanced at this thread.</p>
<p>countryday, you have asked essentially this same question in about six different threads now. Perhaps you should just give the occasional bump to one thread, or at some point recognize that you have gotten the feedback you are going to get here on this question, and turn to some other sources.</p>
<p>Modestmelody - I am originally an east coaster, so it my husband, and all our family still lives there and trust me many people DO know about smaller LACs in the midwest. In this global age trust me national knowledge is not that hard to come by.</p>
<p>SimpleRules-- I’m still an East Coaster, and I’m really into higher education (work closely with my school’s administration, read Inside Higher Ed and the Chronicle every morning, have thousands of posts on this site), and I can tell you that other than amongst small, specific circles, these schools have 0 name recognition on the East Coast relative to most places.</p>
<p>My guess is less than 5 people in 100 on the street of any city in the NE will have heard of Lake Forest or Beloit.</p>
<p>That doesn’t say they’re bad, or not even that they’re not GREAT, just that they’re not known nationally as well as they are known regionally and amongst those specifically looking for that kind of college.</p>
<p>Was the OP looking for a nationally known school? If so, a small LAC, even top 10, is not the best bet. I thought the OP was asking for opinions about the schools themselves. My husband’s family all went to midwestern LACs from the DC area, many people I grew up with and he grew up with did as well. I just don’t think that many people who are in the processes of searching for a college can’t figure out a school’s reputation beyond asking the opinion of someone on the street of a NE city - also the east coast does include a few cities further south as well as in between.</p>
<p>I wasn’t making a judgment call-- just stating that he wanted to know “general public opinion” about these schools, the answer is, the general public in many parts of this country has never heard of them.</p>
<p>modestmelody, on the streets of Chicago or Minneapolis or Indianapolis or any other city in the Midwest the same ratio – 5 in 100 or fewer – would know what Amherst or Williams or, to be honest, Brown were, or where they were, even if they knew what they were.</p>
<p>The truth is that general knowledge about colleges and universities is extremely regional throughout the country, even among educated people, with a very few exceptions. Those exceptions are a small handful (but by no means all) of the Ivy schools and similar private Universities, the mega-sized public flagships that have great sports programs and place names (e.g. UCLA, Oklahoma, Wisconsin, Alabama, Florida) – and absolutely no Liberal Arts Colleges at all.</p>
<p>You are simply evincing your own regional parochialism.</p>
<p>I don’t want to get nasty but honestly…</p>
<p>Read my first post.</p>
<p>It specifically says my region, and specifically says they’re regionally unknown, and it specifically does not make any value judgment on that fact.</p>
<p>For those of you who somehow missed post #8 that’s apparently worthy of criticizing me:</p>
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<p>Though most of those schools are relatively unknown on the East Coast (as above posters have said), Kenyon is somewhat of an exception.</p>
<p>Kenyon College is definitely the most prestigious and best academically of all those schools… it’s a very good midwest LAC.</p>
<p>Beautifully put MilwDad - I really could never have said it as well myself. My good friend, a native Bostonian, recently toured Amherst, when she told her neighbors (yes an educated group) they truly had never heard of it. We laughed. Middlebury? Carleton? Brown?</p>
<p>modestmelody with all your knowledge why don’t you help the OP out? That these schools are not known in the NE is very irrelevant in this instance.</p>
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<p>Seems relevant to the OPs question, SimpleRules.</p>
<p>I would agree with TheGovernment-- Kenyon is probably the most well known, but I don’t think there are many strong opinions about it, more people would be able to identify “Kenyon” as a university.</p>
<p>The point is that the opinion you stated is not ‘general’ public opinion, just regional public opinion. The point that MilwDad stated and I agree with is that regional opinion varies, well, from region to region. The NE is truly just one region. I was also trying to point out that even in the midwest many people have never heard of Carleton or Kenyon. They haven’t heard of Brown - which I think is very funny because it is such an extraordinary school. Why not help the poster out with some more relevant information?</p>