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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here’s the catch.

You know how kids around here have been groomed for top schools their whole lives?
There is a culture in NJ/NJ/CT/MA where kids are groomed socially their entire lives, taught who to associate with and who not to, taught how to choose friends like they’re making business connections...not based on friendship, but based on who has access to what. They don’t care so much about academics, and aren’t that competitive about it, but it’s creepy as hell how calculating these kids are by the time they are in college.

I think I prefer the academically competitive crowd down here. [/quote]
Funny, to me that is a description that fits the DC area to a perfect tee. There’s a reason everyone makes jokes about DC and its residents’ obsession with the “so what do you do?” question.[/quote]

NP.  But the point is that the “What do you do?” Question is so much better than the “Who are your parents (grandparents)?” Or “What prep school(s) did you attend?” Question.

I avoided the Ivys when I was that age for precisely OP’s reasons.  But I think that was a mistake.  Harvard is a huge school and therefore has space to admit lots of normal kids as well as all the competitive snobs.  It has such name recognitions that a lot of kids who nowheresville have heard of Harvard and will pick it.  So, after now having met lots of Harvard grads, I think Harvard is a good choice.   I wouldn’t say the same about Yale or Princeton.  Stanford has a different kind of snobbery going on.  It’s more California cool kid meets future tech bro meet chess club geek.  [/quote]

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