<p>I actually think Brown might have a decent name recognition solely because of Lisa Simpson and her "oh no i'll have to go to Brown" line. And I think Dartmouth has better name recognition than Cornell and definitely Penn. People here think Penn is a state school, or think that there is only Penn State. And I think, at least in the Midwest, Stanford has a big athletic reputation but no one realizes it is like a top 5 school academically. Of course here (at my craptacular school) if you asked about top five schools, you would probably be told: Harvard, WUSTL, UIUC, Purdue, and Iowa State.</p>