when i was in high school and applying to colleges, i knew about harvard b/c it's mentioned on TV and in movies and such. i knew about dartmouth b/c this random guy came to talk to my school about it (which is really bizarre b/c most people from my school don't go to college, let alone private schools). i think i'd heard of yale, but i had no idea where it was. i'd heard of princeton, but wasn't entirely sure what it was. i might've thought it was one of those historically black colleges, since they mentioned it a lot on the cosby show.

i didn't know what ivy league schools were until i was already in college, either.