Do you know where your friends, extended family, coworkers, neighbors, others, went to college?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Usually. It’s a key data point

For what? In what age group is this true?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Usually. It’s a key data point

Where do you personally draw the line of acceptability?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It seems like there are many who think college is something that will follow you around forever and also many who think it's something no one will ever know. Do you know where your friends, extended family, coworkers, neighbors, others, went to college?

only the neighbors who still use their @harvard.edu or @yale.edu email addresses in the neighborhood listserv, even though they graduated from college 35 years ago 🙄

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Close family and longtime friends I do just because of longevity. Neighbors and coworkers only if it has come up in conversation and often that’s due to something sports related. I don’t sit and discuss where people went to college in general. Once you’re past 30, other than in the context of interviewing, why does anyone care or talk about college.

Exactly this, and it’s 90% they are big sports fan and that’s how I know.

[Anonymous]

Of course, do you not look up all these groups? I do a deep dive on LinkedIn or other databases to check on background, job and political affiliations (don’t talk to MAGAs).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It seems like there are many who think college is something that will follow you around forever and also many who think it's something no one will ever know. Do you know where your friends, extended family, coworkers, neighbors, others, went to college?

only the neighbors who still use their @harvard.edu or @yale.edu email addresses in the neighborhood listserv, even though they graduated from college 35 years ago 🙄

Didn’t go to an Ivy but have a kid at one. They’d get chastised mercilessly for that or any sign of not being a humble. I have secondhand embarrassment for that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Of course, do you not look up all these groups? I do a deep dive on LinkedIn or other databases to check on background, job and political affiliations (don’t talk to MAGAs).

Where do you personally draw the line of acceptability?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It seems like there are many who think college is something that will follow you around forever and also many who think it's something no one will ever know. Do you know where your friends, extended family, coworkers, neighbors, others, went to college?

Friends: This is how I met most of them.
Extended family: cousins and maybe cousins of cousins. I mean they spend 4 frikking year there.
Coworkers: You can check where everyone went to law school on the firm website. A lot of companies have similar information available on their w3ebsite for their professionals.
Neighbors: about 50/50, you are not shy about where you went to school if you live in the same neighborhood. I have a neighbor that went to Kentucky and talks about it all the time with his ivy league neighbors. Like all...the...time.

[Anonymous]

I only know/remember where a handful of people went because they are close to me, they bring it up in conversation so much it’s seared in my brain, or they are a major fan of their school’s sport team(s).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It seems like there are many who think college is something that will follow you around forever and also many who think it's something no one will ever know. Do you know where your friends, extended family, coworkers, neighbors, others, went to college?

Yes I do

I won’t gang with a Republican either.

Next question why don’t you know?

[Anonymous]

Friends and Family - 100% because it would be weird to not know

Coworkers - Depends on how close

As for the vast majority of people outside of those groups (or even inside w/ coworkers), I know where they went because of their college sports allegiances.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It seems like there are many who think college is something that will follow you around forever and also many who think it's something no one will ever know. Do you know where your friends, extended family, coworkers, neighbors, others, went to college?

Yes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Usually. It’s a key data point

This

[Anonymous]

Friends: rarely
Coworkers: undergrad never, law school sometimes, but it doesn't matter

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Usually. It’s a key data point

For what? In what age group is this true?

None of them.