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If asked - say where you went to school. [/quote]

I do.  But honestly it's often a d*mned if you do or don't scenario.  While I never bring it up (Harvard grad), if asked, I'm honest.  Last week the response was a (cue sarcastic voice...)"oooooh, SMARTY PANTS, aren't you? Whoooooaaaaa.  You don't [i]act[/i] like you went to Harvard."  blah blah blah for a full two minutes.  Cringeworthy, super uncomfortable.

This happens more often than you might expect.  Which is why it's tempting to say I "went to school in Boston."[/quote]

[b]That’s the glory of Stanford. I just say I “went to school on the West Coast.”  No one ever asks where. [/quote][/b]

F[b]alse.  They all ask.  It's called polite conversation.[/quote][/b]

No, they don't.  I went there . No one says "west coast".  no one.  that's just stupid.  It's a myth that harvard people say "a small college in cambridge" but that's also false and you just copied that.  No one who goes to stanford says that.  you're just trying to copy the harvard line[/quote]

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