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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was your daughter.  I was told 'in-state' only.  My dad always talked about coming out without any loans and that if I went that route they'd pay for my undergrad.

I'm 52 and I do feel that I definitely could have gone to a higher 'ranked' university and when people get snooty about universities and their alma mater and ask where I went it used to rankle me a lot.  A lot has to do with the fact I am much wealthier than my parents now and our neighborhood is filled with Ivies and SLAC alum and I'm even married to a guy that went to a very prestigious top 10 university because he was poor and got pell grants and all kinds of financial merit aid to do so.  I was #15 out of a Fairfax County HS of ~550 in my grade, a 4-year varsity sports (and hs state champ), SCA Officer, clubs, etc., you name it.

I loved my time in college and received a great education.  I did major and receive a graduate degree in STEM so when these liberal arts/lawyers start getting hoity toity about their alma mater, I can throw that out because my degree in and of itself is in an impressive field...and I have a good career.  My graduate school was paid for through a teaching stipend and scholarship so my dad was right about the benefit of coming out of all of that with no student loan debt.

I love Wall Street when Gordon Gekko in Wall Street drops the line "Yeah not bad for a City College boy. I bought my way in now all these Ivy League schmucks are sucking me kneecaps"  and I love that some of the people with the 'big name' degrees work for me now--I won't lie :lol: .

And, I had a helluva lot more fun at my big State University than my husband had at his pressure cooker non-party school![/quote]

You have issues.

And City College is like a community college.  Miles away from state school[/quote]

Wjat issue is it that you think she has?[/quote]

Insecure/status conscious/general feeling of less then for no particular reason

Memorizing your high school rank and comparing your school to random peers in your 50s is odd.  Acting like a state flagship is comparable to an inner city two year college is also strange. [/quote]

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