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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]

False.  They all ask.  I[b]t's called polite conversation.[/quote][/b]

False.  No one has ever said to me they "went to school on the west coast" because I did.  You say you went to Stanford.  I say I went to UCLA.  No one is that stupidly coy about Stanford[/quote]

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