<p>Yeah, I'm from Wisconsin, and I can echo Drummerdude's thoughts: Dartmouth, among quite a few people around here, is actually at least recognized as a great school, although I think most people don't quite know the extent. Penn is the one everyone thinks is 'Penn State'. And at Penn Preview Days, I was one of the only students from the Midwest visiting. I don't know why, it's just not a school very many Midwestern kids go to. I guess each school might have a pockets of the country where it isn't very well known, and you might have happened to run into a few of those.</p>