Why are Harvard people so arrogant?

[Anonymous]

Mixture of two things:

1. many harvardians are naturally very self-assured and (borderline) arrogant.

2. people are biased against them and expect them to be arrogant. Especially people from other ivies and elite schools are quite jealous towards Harvard people.

[Anonymous]

I went to Harvard in the 80s. Most of the time, I can get away with saying I went to college near Boston or in New England. Most people who ask where you went to college don 't really care. They are just making conversation since you are both standing near the cheese platter. The fact that this thread exists convinces me that I am doing the right thing.

Using the people at my last reunion as a non random sample, most are pretty normal people who know we wouldn't be admitted these days. The Wall St/management consulting/jock- turned-property-developer types are still the same nightmares they were when we were undergrads. Sorry. If you chat with them in the dining hall, you learn that many of them are the products of the deadly jerk father + doormat mother parenting duo. Harvard didn't make them asses; it just chose them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I went to Harvard in the 80s. Most of the time, I can get away with saying I went to college near Boston or in New England. Most people who ask where you went to college don 't really care. They are just making conversation since you are both standing near the cheese platter. The fact that this thread exists convinces me that I am doing the right thing.

Using the people at my last reunion as a non random sample, most are pretty normal people who know we wouldn't be admitted these days. The Wall St/management consulting/jock- turned-property-developer types are still the same nightmares they were when we were undergrads. Sorry. If you chat with them in the dining hall, you learn that many of them are the products of the deadly jerk father + doormat mother parenting duo. Harvard didn't make them asses; it just chose them.

You should meet these types from the other ivies too. Same baggage plus the insecurity of not having gone to Harvard. Toxic combo.

[Anonymous]

I think you have to be somewhat arrogant to go to Harvard. First, you have to apply, which indicates that you think you are better than 99.9% of the other high school seniors in the country. Then you have to choose to attend, because you're sure that you belong at THE BEST college in the country.

So, yeah, Harvard grads are arrogant. Not because Harvard makes them arrogant. But because arrogant seniors self-select to Harvard.

[Anonymous]

Why are people who didn’t go to Harvard so obsessed with Harvard?

[Anonymous]

You don't go to Harvard if you are normal, that's why.

[Anonymous]

Sooo if you went to Harvard and someone ask you where did you went to school.. What is the best answer to avoid anonying the 90% of the resented and envious morons that posted before?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sooo if you went to Harvard and someone ask you where did you went to school.. What is the best answer to avoid anonying the 90% of the resented and envious morons that posted before?

Just be modest and tell them as I do "a College in Boston, that strangely has graduated more US Presidents and Members of Congress than any other college"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why are people who didn’t go to Harvard so obsessed with Harvard?

Because they know we are better than them and they resent it. They know we run this country, get the best looking girls and the highest paying jobs and resent our superiority with a vengeance.

[Anonymous]

You’re (a) claiming credit for running the country right now and (b) think others will see that as a mark of your superiority? Wow, Jared, your stupidity really is unfathomable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You don't go to Harvard if you are normal, that's why.

We are just better than everybody and know it. We run this country's political and business establishments. Plebians can't do that, so you are right in that sense.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You’re (a) claiming credit for running the country right now and (b) think others will see that as a mark of your superiority? Wow, Jared, your stupidity really is unfathomable.

You just resent him because his chauffeur has more money than you do and he is married to a smoking hot woman, both of which are a direct result of his being from Harvard.

[Anonymous]

The people I knew who went to Harvard never, ever mention it in fact they probably avoid ever saying it. Dated a guy who told me in the beginning of the relationship that he went to school in Boston.

None of these same people are married to anyone remotely hot and career-wise, a mixed bag.

[Anonymous]

I almost never ask (nor do folks ask me) where someone went to college. Maybe it's because I'm in my late 40's and most people I know are also about my age. We don't really care at this point what your GPA was or what college you went to. But, if I did pointedly ask someone where the person went to college, and the person said "Boston", I would probably ask, "which one". And if the person says, "Harvard", I would say, "ok", and that would be that. Then we would continue on with our conversation, and my opinion of that person wouldn't change one way or the other.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why are people who didn’t go to Harvard so obsessed with Harvard?

Hallmark of an arrogant person is that they think everyone is obsessed with them...just saying.