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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]

It's weird. You criticize us for admitting where we went to school, yet you also criticize when we deflect and don't tell you and say we went to school in Connecticut/Mass.

We can't win with you people. You need to get over your own insecurities about not going to a good enough school. This is about YOU. [/quote]

I made this comment, but none of the prior ones. I just thought it was ironic. 😆

FWIW, I find it far less douche-y when someone names their actual school (when it comes up naturally in conversation) than when they say they went to school near Boston.

There’s no shame in naming your school. People wear their state school apparel loud and proud. No one should have to hide the fact that they went to Stanford.

But maybe I’m less impressed by these things than others. (Especially when you know the person got in because of legacy admission or because they were a rock star athlete. Now the middle class Midwesterner with no hooks? Maybe they are the most impressive! 😆)

Seriously, normal people don’t care.[/quote]

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