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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It wasn’t until after I graduated from an Ivy League school that I knew that “Cal” and “Berkeley” are the same school. 
Ivy League schools can be as far off some people’s radar as California schools were off of mine. [/quote]

Really? I had no idea.[/quote]

You didn’t know Cal was Berkeley?

I think another phenomenon this points to is the ridiculous obsession with going OOS for “prestige,” not realizing that state college systems are inherently regional and serve the good of the state. So yeah, I knew Cal was Berkeley because I grew up there, but totally reasonable if you are in DC and didn’t know that. [/quote]

Californian living in DC. If someone doesn’t know Cal is Berkeley, I figure they are mildly uneducated or first gen. Just like I would feel the same way if they didn’t know the difference between Penn and Penn State or that Brown is in the Ivy League, or that Barnard is part of Columbia, etc. [/quote]

Meh, I don’t think that. But if they are posing about how their kid is applying to “UCB” and complaining about how hard OOS admissions are, then I do think they are privilege grasping idiots.

Keeping track of the arcana of prestige (like, who tf cares if Brown is in the Ivy League?) has nothing to do with education. [/quote]

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