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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]If you're talking about socially elite, and you certainly should be, then the only schools that matter are.....

Princeton
Willians/Amherst
Harvard
Dartmouth
Bowdoin/Midd
Wellesley/Wesleyan

The rest are vulgar, jumped up, pre-professional diploma mills.[/quote]

Take out Williams, Amherst, Bowdoin (?), Middlebury (?!), Wellesley, Wesleyan ( :lol: ) and add in Yale, Columbia, Stanford, MIT, Penn, Chicago, Northwestern, Duke, Cornell, Brown, Dartmouth and then we're talking.

I'm sorry my poor child but absolutely no one is looking at a Bowdoin or a Middlebury degree and thinking, "Ah, yes, socially elite."[/quote]

Dear, you either know or you don't.[/quote]

DP - if you really think you're going to convince people on an anonymous internet board that schools like Bowdoin or Middlebury are elite, you've got a long, uphill battle ahead of you. The kids that attend those schools might be bright, but they're not elite. Trust me.[/quote]

They are "socially elite" apparently.[/quote]

They're not. If you send your child to somewhere like Middlebury expecting them to be treated as "socially elite" in life, you've put your money on the wrong horse. I went to Andover, matriculated to an Ivy, and most of my social circle (for better or worse) attended schools within the Ivy/Ivy Plus range. While Williams and Amherst will get some respect, and while most would readily acknowledge that kids at many LACs are bright and curious individuals, no one would label those schools as "socially elite", at least not moreso than the top 10-or-so universities that have long been favored by the upper-middle classes in America.[/quote]

Aside from HYP, Chicago, Stanford, and MIT, the social elite flock to SLACs. Most MC and many UMC (more in terms of financial status than social status) haven't heard of Williams, Amherst, Swarthmore, Pomona, etc. You have to have gone to certain elite high schools and have been raised in families exposed to graduate level education to be familiar with the top LACs. [/quote]

That is total nonsense.[/quote]

Good friend of mine who went to  HLS from a state school, grew up MC, had never heard of Swarthmore, Amherst, or Williams until he went to law school. Not an uncommon story - most people who know about these prestigious SLACs are either from highly educated families or went to prep schools. Harvard's a household name. Amherst is not.[/quote]

Exactly. Slackjaw yokel newly minted UMC don’t know prestigious SLACs. They also think Chili’s is fine dining and get their suits Buy One Get 4 Free from Joseph A Banks. This is precisely the issue. [/quote]

Hahaha no matter how many lame juvenile insults you throw, you know deep down inside that absolutely no one thinks Bowdoin or Middlebury (or even Swarthmore) are "socially elite." It's just desperately wishful thinking, and honestly just makes you come across as pathetic.[/quote]

Whelp, TTT Ivy boy just sent me reeling across the marble floor! Particularly the opening, “hahaha”. That’s Algonquin Roundtable material, don’t spoil it on Thanksgiving Eve DCUM.

Bet your family wasn’t even on the Mayflower. [/quote]

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