<p>Ek:</p>
<p>"I don't know about either of those schools because I am on the left coast"</p>
<p>Even on the left coast people have heard of Harvard, no? So have adcoms. But no one need feel guilty about not knowing about Roxbury Community College whose recent brush with fame (or rather infamy) was due to some financial shenanigans on the part of the previous president, and whose students probably have SAT scores that are not in the same league as Harvard.</p>