Haverford Vs. Yale

millie210
Mon, 16 Oct 2017 03:53:18 +0000

"Go to Yale. Haverford alums have to spend the rest of their lives explaining where and what H’ford is. As excellent as H’ford is, this will get tiresome after a while. At least when you say “I went to Yale,” everyone will know exactly what you’re talking about and you won’t continuously feel like you have to “prove” you went to a respected school. "

This is silly. As a Wes alum, I can assure you that anyone I ever really needed to impress with my undergrad degree (employers and grad school admissions) knew Wesleyan and was duly impressed. As for everyone else, who cares?

Or if one is so insecure that one feels the need to impress random strangers and to feel snobby about where one went to school, it is always comforting to remind oneself that anyone who hasn’t heard of Haverford obviously doesn’t really know about the country’s best schools, has probably only heard of a few Ivies, the local State U and some sports powerhouses and isn’t worth impressing anyway.

OTOH, Post #16 is very funny and I’m sure will be enjoyed by my best friend, who went to Bryn Mawr, and her husband, who went to Haverford. Neither has been held back personally or professionally by their alma maters.