<p>I really don’t think the level of well-known-ness has that much of a bearing on anything other than personal opinions. Fair enough if you’re hiring for a very specific job in engineering and you have to choose between someone who went to MIT against someone who went to the University of Nowheresville, but ultimately a degree is a degree and if you’re applying for a job afterwards it isn’t going to be where you studied that matters. Think of all the millions of people who DON’T go to top colleges… they all find employment. It’s not where you get the degree that’s important, it’s how you treat the college experience and use your education to the best of your ability. And you don’t need prestige to do that.</p>
<p>When I tell people here where I’m applying they say “Harvard?!” and laugh, thinking it’ll be impossible. But then “Amherst? …nobody’s heard of that” so naturally it must be easy to get in.</p>
<p>But until I came here and did my research I hadn’t heard of Amherst either so I don’t expect British people to know it. I don’t think it’s important if people in your home country haven’t heard of the college.</p>