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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Name thr college or this is meaningless.[/quote]
I’m trying to stay anonymous. It’s one of  Colby, Bates, Bowdoin.[/quote]

Well your friends must live under a rock if they have never heard of those[/quote]

95% of the population outside of New England couldn't name the state that those colleges are in.  [/quote]

Truth to this. Saying you live in the South is meaningless. Most people in the North wouldn't have heard of Colby or Bates or Bowdoin either.

The people who know about these colleges are socio-economically certain types of backgrounds. My father grew up in a small town in Pennsylvania and when applying to colleges in the 60s, he applied to a bunch of schools that his parents (college educated) and their close friends (all the college educated "elites" in the small town absolutely knew of, but most kids at his high school had no clue what they were and were puzzled why he wasn't just going to Penn State where the "smart kids went." Places like Swarthmore meant nothing to them. And there's absolutely nothing wrong with it too. There is no moral judgment here and if you try to make it into a moral situation, you need to look long and hard at yourself. [/quote]

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