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When a school tells you time and time again that you are the best of the best, that you are cream of the crop, you start to get a big head.  Just like when a parent tells their kid the same thing, the kid gets a big head and is not likable.  I have seen that, yes.

What insecurities are you referring to?

Everything we say here is a generalization.  People make generalizations all the time.  It's how we have a frame of reference and make judgement calls.  I'm sure you've done it once or twice in your life.[/quote]

Seriously? Ivies don't "tell you time and time again that you are the best of the best."  Do you really think the deans get up there in front of incoming freshman and make speeches like that, with recaps once a year for the next three years?  No, the speeches from Ivy administrations and profs to students are all about your responsibilities to take advantage of the educational opportunities and hopefully use them for the societal good. That was my experience and is now DC's experience.

Perhaps you are referring to kids' own perceptions that getting in means they are the cream, instead of the truth which is that they basically won a lottery. In that case, it's failed parenting.[/quote]

It is the general attitude of the student body.  I guess you took exception to the statement since you went there and now your DC is.  I am sure I would be offended, too.   You are probably likable to each other.   If you are one of the few who don't have this superiority complex, then great.  I actually know someone who went to Harvard for undergrad.  He is great person.  But he also complained people there were snobs, and he hated every minute of  his experience there.  He went onto a different grad school for his Law degree, not Ivy.  He's much happier.

If most of your friends are also Ivy grads, then you probably can't tell whether you are all likable or not to the general public, and actually, you probably don't care.  But as I said, if you are one of the few that is likable, then that's great.

As I said, everything we say is a generalization since no one has absolute knowledge or authority over any subject matter.   But my general opinion of Ivy grads is that they are snobby, hence not likable IMO.

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So you're just going to insist on sounding like an idiot huh?

It's the general attitude of the student body? Yet, you've never been part of an ivy league student body? :shock:

They're all snobby with superiority complexes. Except your one friend? :shock:

Sorry, but everyone does NOT make generalizations. Only idiots with limited life experience and intellect do that.

Instead of projecting what you THINK ivy leaguers MIGHT think, deal with your own insecurity and the fact that you feel inferior next to one.[/quote]

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