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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There's the old saying about having gone to school "near Boston" which is often dismissed as a false arrogance but if you say the name, it sounds snobbish. If it comes up, what do you consider the right way to approach it?[/quote]

If it comes up, you say where you went to school.  If you feel the need to bring it up often, and you're more than 2 years out of school, you're the problem.

And "(elite school, HYPS, etc)" isn't the issue.  Nobody I've ever met who went to Yale had these tortured "but how do I say my school name in front of the proles without causing resentment??!?" problems.  This is something specific and peculiar to Harvard - you're all telling each other no one can handle you "dropping the H bomb" in conversation and you're all falling for it.  It's not that serious.[/quote]

+1 Harvard Law Grad.  It is specific to Harvard, and it is often accompanied by assumptions made about you--snobby, and/or super-smart, etc.  [/quote]

+2. Another Harvard Law grad. I’m also in my 40s and still get asked. I used to beat around the bush. Now I drop the H bomb and let the assumptions fall where they may.[/quote]

And those assumptions would be you couldn’t last more than two years at a large firm and a catholic law grad made partner over you?[/quote]

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