"My senior year a lot of people wanted to go to big-name schools."

What most parents and prospective students don't realize is that the great scholars and teachers in this country are not all at the big-name schools.

Rutgers is an old-line, big-name academic school that shouldn't be in the Big East.

Of course, big-name schools will continue to "strip mine" New Jersey's best high school talent.

The big-name schools are long gone.

If you want to do someone a favor, try corporate finance at a big-name school.

Along the basketball hotbed known as Tobacco Road, the white kids from the big-name schools would inevitably hear of the black talent at the smaller ones.

Additional wins against big-name schools came against Penn State and Iowa.

"We're playing every game like it's a big-name school," Cuffe said.

I was accepted to many of the big-name schools, and they all said "come here," but being short on finances, I found that this was something I could not do.