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[quote=Anonymous]Having moved to suburban Maryland from Palo Alto, it is tough to compare the two. The biggest difference to me is that people here are more focused on the college name/prestige and people there are more concerned with college as a means to what happens after college. There, it is much more about getting a top tech, consulting, or banking job or getting into a top grad school rather than just going to Stanford or Harvard or Yale. Getting into a great school is the start everyone there wants but that alone doesn't then lower the pressure on the kids (it is like winning an initial playoff game in professional sports; on to the next one, which is even more important). Here, it feels like being admitted and starting at a prestigious college is an end in itself and then the external pressure drops, even for Big 3 or TJ kids. It isn't surprising that you see far more Google, Meta, and Amazon swag in Palo Alto than college shirts (non-Stanford anyway). In DC, I've never seen so many people in their 30s and 40s still advertising where they went to school  :lol: [/quote]

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