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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

No you didn't.[/quote]
I’m a NP but come on. You’ve never noticed that when asked where they went to college, Harvard grads say “in Boston”?  A lot more people deflect than you might think.[/quote]
Why do you hang out with losers who ask what school you went to when you were a teen/early 20s? Backwards-looking people.[/quote]

It comes up when we talk about where our kids are thinking of going “where did you, go was it a rural campus, did you like it” sort of thing. I also ask people where they grew up and last vacationed, all in the past![/quote]

Here's our answer. It comes up because YOU ask. I literally never ask parents of my kids' friends where they went to college. And I am one who went to school "in Boston."[/quote]

I went to New Haven. I NEVER ask and hate when they do, but it does come up. [/quote]

LOL. Two people saying they hate telling others where they went to school.

Yet here they are, unable to help themselves from telling us where they went to school. 😆[/quote]

+1. Also lol at telling people “I went to New Haven,” as if there is any uncertainty about what that means. At least people who cite Boston could be referring to multiple universities.

Of course, all of this misses the original point that it’s the status-obsessed and the strivers that run around saying where they went. Tons of people go to these schools and don’t say much about it because they aren’t these types of people. They are not one and the same. But one particular striver got incredibly triggered about this.[/quote]

What? You have some weird misconceptions about people who went to elite schools, probably because of your own insecurities.

First, I don't say I went to school in New Haven, I would say Connecticut. Second, if I wanted to impress you with where I went to school, why would I say that instead of just telling you? I avoid telling you to avoid the weirdness that often comes along with me actually telling you. And because I don't need to impress you. I also never raise it, nor does anyone else I know who I went to school with. We all want to avoid the weird responses, and don't feel like dealing with it, that's why we say "I went to school in Connecticut."

And just to give you a sense of why we avoid actually answering, here are some of the reactions I have gotten when I have disclosed:
- questions about my background, grades, test scores, how I got in
- quizzing me about how to get their own kid in
- you go to Yale, what are you doing working here (waiting tables in college)
- oh you must be so smart, will you help me with my calc homework (no you really don't want my help with that, promise!)

etc, etc, etc. [/quote]

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