I've got both an undergrad and graduate degree from UVA. I call myself a Double Hoo.

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Anonymous wrote:Someone who's waaaaay to comfortable at a certain school and afraid to explore other options.

intellectually incestuous. I have a doctorate and it just shouldn't be done.

I totally get that for a doctorate, where there is usually a lot of overlap and connection between people who teach undergrad and grad school.

But I know at my university, the medical and law faculties were completely separate from the undergrad faculty. Do you still feel that way in that situation?

Anonymous wrote:At Notre Dame, we call them a Double Domer.

"Domer" is in reference to the Golden Dome.

I just clicked on here to say Double Domer. I was at UVA for grad school, and the students who got undergraduate and graduate/professional degrees from UVA were sometimes called Double Hoos.

Anonymous wrote:I think it's weird there is even a question of this being a stigma. Particularly for Masters, there are a lot of schools that are offering a 5 year degree program where you come out with a BA and an MA (or BS and MS). That seems super-smart to me.

Similarly, a lot of PhD programs give you a Master's two years in. You can keep going, because you've already been accepted, or it's a good point to bail if you've discovered it's not for you.

I think it's weird there is even a question of this being a stigma. Particularly for Masters, there are a lot of schools that are offering a 5 year degree program where you come out with a BA and an MA (or BS and MS). That seems super-smart to me.

Didn’t know there was a name for it, but I have my degrees from the same place. When asked to talk about my education, I just say I did bit undergrad and graduate work at X

At BC they are a Double Eagle.

At duke you’re a “double dukie”

I did this, because I was in a program that let me do my first year of masters concurrently with final year of bachelors. I saved lots of money. And it's a good school, not Blue Atlantic Ocean University.

UVa= Double Hoo

At Notre Dame they were called "Double Domers".

Anonymous wrote:I'm one of these folks and I've never heard of it even being an it, let alone being called anything specific. People look at my wall, say "oh you went to x place for college and law school? You liked it huh?" and that's the end.

Me too. Never heard this, despite being this.

All of mine are from Berkeley (BA, MA, Ph.D.). Great education and great value (I was there through the 90s).

Context matters here. If the 2 degrees are from HYPS schools or top 50-100 schools, then I would call it smart. If the 2 degrees are from the College of the Blue Middle Atlantic, then maybe it is not-so-smart.

Anonymous wrote:for example: Harvard BA, Harvard JD or Northwestern BA, Northwestern-Kellogg MBA

Is it double alum, dual alum or something else? I've heard it before but I just can't seem to recall. Thanks.

Lol, my undergrad advisor called it inbreeding.