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Your example is completely unrelated to the point you are trying to make about wealth and class, and as a personal anecdote it is hardly convincing evidence of your larger point regarding Princeton boosters.
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It's like you all went to the same debating club too! If you want "convincing evidence", go to the College Search and Selection board and read the threads about Princeton. Read the threads about college selection on the Prinecton board. Count up all the times a Princeton booster suggests that someone should ever do something other than attend Princeton. Count up the times they ever say ANYTHING negative about the place. Then compare it to each and every booster from each and every other college. Let me know the results!
All I can offer you is my gestalt impression with an example or two. My guess is that this impression will ring true with a few peole, and maybe they will think twice next time and be a little more balance in their boosterism.
Anyway, like I said, i think you all should worry a little less about "dispelling the lingering stereotypes." You all defend the place like it's on the verge of collapse! A bunker mentality at the richest (per student! as you all keep saying!) university on earth!