how is brown perceived in your area

international student here, I don’t really care about prestige. applied for my best fit but I was talking to a few relatives in MN, and none of them knew what it was. I understand most schools are known regionally except harvard/yale, but is it that unknown? I’m sorry if i come off as flexing or anything I’m from the UK and everything outside harvard/yale is unknown of. even stanford is basically unheard of.