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Yes, loving and supporting one's children is so embarrassing.  [b]Funny. I went to Harvard and I work with people who went to state schools[/b] as well as people who went to other Ivies.  They're all smart and good at what we do. You find smart people everywhere.  You find a higher proportion of them at higher ranked schools, sure, but so what.  That tells you nothing about an individual who went to a non-top school.  If my kids go to average schools and are happy and doing well and find something they like, are good at, and can support themselves with, you bet I'll be proud.  [/quote]

Sorry to hear that.[/quote]

I'm sorry for whoever paid Harvard's bill. ;)[/quote]

Well part of it was a fellowship, but ok.  And I'm doing very well, thanks.  Are you an adult, or a teenager?  Because I don't see how an adult could be so ignorant that you find people from state schools everywhere -- including Biglaw firms, right alongside ivy grads like me.  Your desperation to feel superior is making you fact-resistant. [/quote]

I made the sorry about Harvard's bill comment. I think maybe it was misinterpreted. I was trying to be tongue-in-cheek (hence the wink) and suggest that maybe this was evidence that it wasn't necessary to go to Harvard, as OP seems to think. But I certainly don't mean that you must have ended up in a lowly place. Your experience (and mine as well) clearly indicates that there is more than one path to success in life. Of course I know that you find people from state schools everywhere--I'm a public school grad myself, from kindergarten through grad school, working in the office next door to a Harvard alum. Maybe it's you, LOL. :-)[/quote]

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