There are over two hundred major universities in the United States. That's an awful lot of schools for people to sort in their minds and really get an image of what they are.
Other than the area of sports. That's easy: who's hot and has had a successful football and/or basketball program for a long time...and who's not.
but outside the stadium and the arena, it gets a bit tricky.
WHAT SCHOOLS DO YOU THINK HAVE HIGH VISIBILITY AND AWARENESS DUE TO FACTORS ASIDE FROM ATHLETICS?
Which allows them to have an image, setting them apart from good old Generic U. The most evocative.....
Can you name some of those schools and the images they convey. I'll give my examples:
• Harvard: the ultimate academic institution; oldest, most prestige
• Yale: right there at the top, too; a place where many leaders have gone to college
• Viriginia: Mr. Jefferson's university
• Chicago: the ultimate no nonsense, academically oriented university
• Stanford: Ivy League quality with Calif. location, but with a more conservative bent
• Cal: a radical past, a constant history and present as the standard for public education
• Michigan: dripping in tradition, possibly the most complete university in the land. the model used for what the majority of US state universities used for their development
• Texas: Dominant institution in a state that likes to dominate. Endowment from oil $$$ coming out of its ears!
• Arizona State: PARTY!!!!!
• Notre Dame: the aura of the ultimate Catholic institution
• Colorado: foothill location is incomparable
• Ole Miss: ancient history, but integrating the place is still in our consciousness
• Penn State: best northeast example of major state university
• Duke: academic super star and best university in the South; strong northeast connection
•*Princeton: Ivy League preppy, WASPish and old $$$
• Nebraska: no closer relationship between state and university
• Cornell: high above Cayuhoga's waters
• Texas A&M: anybody more loyal than an Aggie? Twelvth Man school.> |
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