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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]HYP all have terrible football teams. I see college gear mostly on Fridays and Saturdays during the fall here. Lots of Michigan, Georgia, Alabama, ect. People are flexing based on the football program and not the quality of school. I find your observation hilarious.
During the rest of the year, HYP people wear their shirts and hats about as often as other schools of comparable size. 
During basketball season, you'll see a lot more Duke, Kentucky, Kansas and Georgetown stuff in DC too! 
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As a HYP graduate, You have to worry about not flexing but also not not flexing- like hiding the information because you think It’s so great they can’t handle it. [/quote]

Not to throw P under the bus too much since it is an amazing school but it isn't as impressive to most people. Would they even be able to tell you Princeton's colors or anything?
I wouldn't worry about "flexing" Princeton in the same way as HYS. It is more like any other Ivy when "flexing." Many will know but the general population wouldn't be at all annoyed.[/quote]

It’s not P is considered less impressive, it just has a better image thanks to a generalized fondness towards tigers and the Cinderella story basketball stuff. Pretty sure more people can tell you Princeton colors than Harvard or Yale. [/quote]

I don't buy that for a lot of the country and beyond. I grew up in a "flyover state" and had a classmate go to Princeton after getting into Harvard. Let's just say people had a very hard time believing and understanding the decision locally. You'd have thought he was choosing Directional State College over Harvard.
Studying abroad in Europe, there was also a clear difference in how friends from Yale and Princeton were received (no one commented on the Princeton shirts in the same way). I don't have kids, so it isn't like this was the 90s.[/quote]

This feels like a bit of a stretch.  Maybe it was before Princeton was ranked the top university in the country by US News for 12 years in a row - something that doesn’t go unnoticed in international circles.  [/quote]

The undergrad USNWR ranking we care about so much isn't as relevant abroad. Unless people are looking to go to undergrad here, they are not as aware of that annual ranking. They know US colleges accept limited numbers of international students for undergrad. They are more interested in the grad rankings for the programs they are looking for and Princeton doesn't do as well there. [/quote]

Yeah a Princeton PhD is worthless. 😂[/quote]

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