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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, you’re 100% correct, but no one believes it until they see it. It’s something that people just have to experience to understand, and even then, some never do, which is how you end up with some people who wrap their entire identity around the ranking of their undergrad school and literally can’t shut up about it, even though they’re working alongside and under others who went everywhere else. [/quote]

Haha. So true.

I always believed as you do now, OP.

I did not attend a fancy school for money and other reasons. I don’t see that friends who attended fancier brand name schools fared much better or have drastically better lives.

The famous ones didn’t even finish college!

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Ding ding ding. Know two people - one a former colleague, one an IL - who have wrapped nearly all of their identities around their undergrad ranking even though they both have had relatively successful careers and largely on their own terms as women and moms. Yet none of that seems to sate their need to assert where they went to undergrad whenever possible. The IL even went so far to tell me that Ivies (my grad degree is from one) tend to take a sprinkling of folks from no name schools to satisfy geography needs - basically implying that my admit was a type of affirmative action. [b]Who does that?[/b] [/quote]

Desperately insecure people do that. Ie a good handful of the folks on this board.

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Right?? The CTCL and prestige threads are filled respectively with folks mocking "no name" LACs or UVA. Why are you reading the CTCL thread if grad from your selective LAC anointed you as one of the chosen? Don't you get sullied just opening it? And how do people get themselves so wrapped around the axle of UVA? Whatever happened to - if you don't have anything good to say then don't say anything at all?[/quote]

People aren't mocking the "CTCL" schools for being no-name, they're mocking it because it's an utterly daft branding exercise and very transparently desperate. I'd have infinitely more respect for someone that just says they went to a small LAC (or better yet, just named it specifically) than say they went to a "CTCL".

It's also weird because the CTCL boosters are pretending to be unpretentious and egalitarian and lovey-dovey, but simultaneously will sneer at other LACs that they deem beneath them, insisting on their own special-ness. It's weird.[/quote]

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