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[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]

Not true. I went to Yale for undergrad and law school and it was the same. As another poster said, all you need is for one or two people to gush about how "you must be really smart!" and you start looking for ways not to mention it. Plenty of Yalies do the "I went to school in Connecticut" or "in New England" thing. (It is douche-y to say "in New Haven" though because many people associate New Haven with Yale and don't know that there are actually other colleges there, so then it looks like the weird side-step that it is.)

Happily I rarely get asked now except in a professional context and no one raises an eyebrow at learning I went to Yale Law School. There are sometimes raised eyebrows if they ask about undergrad and I say I went to Yale for that too, but there aren't really comments.[/quote]

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