<p>Ohio State (which is the same as Ohio, right?) and UCLA are two very big schools, one on the left coast and one in the middle of the country. </p>
<p>That’s about all 90% of us right coast people know about them.</p>
<p>Other schools we have usually heard of:
-Harvard.
-Yale (we all remember Thurston Howell III saying, “Good heavens! A Yale man!” on GI).
-Princeton, mainly because of Einstein.
-Our state flagship, because the sports broadcast usually refers to it.
-One school named for each state, for most states (Texas, Florida, Kentucky, etc. We’re not sure if all states have eponymous schools or not, but we think most do.)
-Whatever is the next most famous school, in our home city (NYC = Columbia, Boston = MIT, Baltimore = Johns Hopkins, Washington = Georgetown, Philadelphia = Penn, Raleigh-Durham = Duke, Atlanta = Georgia Tech, etc.)
-Stanford (that’s in the Ivy League, right?).
-Berkeley (that’s another small private Ivy League school out west, right?).</p>
<p>If we’re really worldly, we may have heard of Oxbridge University, which is apparently where they send their kids to college in England.</p>
<p>We know there are a lot of other colleges out there; just don’t know what they are. We have a vague sense that other countries might have colleges, too.</p>
<p>That’s about it for most of us.</p>