(1) Yes (2) A po-dunk school is any school not on the coasts and not in the top ten, possibly excluding a small number of top-tier schools in "flyover country.

(1) Yes (2) A po-dunk school is any school not on the coasts and not in the top ten, possibly excluding a small number of top-tier schools in "flyover country." (*) Flyover country is the large area you fly over when traveling between, say, Boston and San Francisco.