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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I didn’t go to an hypms but one potential downside is you are expected to continue that trajectory or people will wonder if your undergrad admission was a fluke or there is something wrong with you or that you didn’t live up to your potential. It’s a lot of pressure.

I think ppl do wonder if someone for example goes to Boston university law school after Harvard or doesn’t make partner at big law after 8 years.

On the other hand, I always think someone who went to a state school and then a top grad school or rose high in their profession  is incredible. [/quote]

Echoing the “trajectory” concept mentioned above, I was an undergrad at Boston College when John Kerry was attending BC Law. I had no clue he had attended anywhere other than Yale until fairly recently, AFTER he ran for president. He seemed to have downplayed his BC connection, perhaps because the Yale—&gt;BC trajectory didn’t fit the image he was trying to project.[/quote]

I never knew that! And a lot of BC alum in the family.[/quote]

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