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

[Anonymous]

I know where my friends went to college.

[Anonymous]

Close friends, yes. Members of my board game group? Neighbors, and parents of my kids' friends, not really.

[Anonymous]

Yes- pretty much. I often ask people if they are a fellow local.

Also, how do you know if someone is a UVA grad? You’ll be told within minutes of meeting. 😆

[Anonymous]

The only time I went "huh" when I found out where someone went to college was when it was BYU because they didn't seem to be Mormon (drank alcohol and coffee). They clarified they'd left the church, however.

[Anonymous]

Family and close friends: yes.

Everyone else: if they told me, I forgot.

[Anonymous]

Yes, because it’s all the same handful of schools- HPYS, Columbia, and Williams grads make up most of the people I interact with in a week. Next door neighbors went to W&L and Duke.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes- pretty much. I often ask people if they are a fellow local.

Also, how do you know if someone is a UVA grad? You’ll be told within minutes of meeting. 😆

Lol +100
Almost always expecting something in return and are left awkwardly standing there when you don't give them the reaction they want.

[Anonymous]

Yes, usually.

[Anonymous]

Friends, mostly yes, with exception of some people we met through our kids where it's never come up. But a lot of my friends are from grad school or post-grad years where it would come up often, plus you just learn it over the years based on meeting people through them ("this is my roommate from Michigan") or finding out what college football team they root for, or seeing them in a college tee at the gym.

Neighbors no idea unless we are also friends.

Colleagues sometimes but as I get older less and less. By 40 no one cares where anyone went to school at all.

[Anonymous]

Yes for close friends, no for neighbors.

[Anonymous]

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

Same.

[Anonymous]

Yes, but I have two kids in high school so college is a frequent topic of conversation for me with everyone. Most people are on LinkedIn so it's easy to find out where people went. I find it comes up in conversation more than people think. Discussing college football and other sports, different areas of the country one has visited/recently traveled to, where someone grew up can naturally lead to a conversation on where someone went to college.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Friends, mostly yes, with exception of some people we met through our kids where it's never come up. But a lot of my friends are from grad school or post-grad years where it would come up often, plus you just learn it over the years based on meeting people through them ("this is my roommate from Michigan") or finding out what college football team they root for, or seeing them in a college tee at the gym.

Neighbors no idea unless we are also friends.

Colleagues sometimes but as I get older less and less. By 40 no one cares where anyone went to school at all.

I'm 50+ and I always want to know where people went to school. Says a lot about them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Friends, mostly yes, with exception of some people we met through our kids where it's never come up. But a lot of my friends are from grad school or post-grad years where it would come up often, plus you just learn it over the years based on meeting people through them ("this is my roommate from Michigan") or finding out what college football team they root for, or seeing them in a college tee at the gym.

Neighbors no idea unless we are also friends.

Colleagues sometimes but as I get older less and less. By 40 no one cares where anyone went to school at all.

I'm 50+ and I always want to know where people went to school. Says a lot about them.

What does it say? Can you give some examples? What if someone went to Case Western and what if someone went to JMU?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes- pretty much. I often ask people if they are a fellow local.

Also, how do you know if someone is a UVA grad? You’ll be told within minutes of meeting. 😆

Truer words were never written😂😂