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[quote=Anonymous]OP I feel your pain. My sister graduated from Berkeley, Umich med school and married a Yale doctor.  She totally fits in with elitist academics, she has the swagger down and its intimidating....or it was...

I graduated from a third tier university and felt completely ashamed about it because my family was so enamored with her achievements and Ivy League physician husband. (Eye roll) A decade after graduation, I tried to repair my deep shame by completing grad school at U of M Ann Arbor. No one in my program shared my sister's elitist attitude.  I later met my husband who has his PhD from Michigan and he is completely unpretentious about it. No one calls him doctor, he doesn't really bring it up unless people ask.

My point is that it's likely the values and attitudes of the people you are mixing with that leave you feeling this way, not your actual school.  I met people who were elitist at my third tier school (because they were from a barely upper middle class suburb of Cleveland).  And Ive met highly accomplished unpretentious types with Michigan degrees whohave disdain for people of my sister's ilk.  Its the people not the school.

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