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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is OP saying they are at Taylor, or is that someone else responding?[/quote]

Someone else I think. We are from Taylor but I’m like 90% sure most of the parents aren’t from Harvard… maybe some UVA but all I’ve met are from UmD and Penn State etc [/quote]

How do you even know where the other parents in your kid's elementary school went to college? This comes up in casual conversation? [/quote]

Status-obsessed strivers love to bring this stuff up in conversations.[/quote]

You're wrong. I went to a status school, and I promise you I never bring it up. I often deflect even when asked directly.

This is VERY typical behavior by the way with people who went to my college. [/quote]

This is a very common dodge with people who went to HYP (I went to school in Cambridge…) or some such nonsense. I started doing it because when I was in college and home for break, we would talk about where we go to school and in my small town I would get “ohhh you must be smart” comments like 80% of the time.

In a place like DC, that doesn’t happen.  Just name your school when appropriate, no one care. [/quote]

I use it less in DC but I still use it. I started using it more when my oldest applied to college. No one needs to know I went to HYP. [/quote]

We all know.  [/quote]

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