<p>Ugly people. They will make sure to let you know they went to HYP and many PRETEND that they did. Good-looking people wear HYP shirts in public too but not as much because they have less to prove. Just an observation… agree or disagree?</p>
<p>You should meet my law partner who won moot court at Harvard Law. I think he buys his suits at Sears (or Goodwill?). He never mentions Harvard. But he’s crazy smart.</p>
<p>He probably has enough going for him (socially and otherwise) besides his Harvard pedigree…that’s my point.</p>
<p>Well, I assume you’re EXCLUDING elected politicians … you know, the kind of nobody’s who feel the need to yell “You Lie!” at our nation’s leaders.</p>
<p>With them out of the picture, I’d say it’s once-nobodies who marry an elite individual. “Yes Ma’am, I know you’re Dr. So-n-So’s wife. Yes, I did hear you when you said you’d have my badge. No, I didn’t stop you in hopes of collecting a bribe.”</p>
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<p>I live in a very upscale area and have never seen a person wearing a shirt from any of the above colleges… I was curious if I was outside the norm of middle-aged high-income folks. Googled both ivy alum forums and your user name. Sorry, kiddo, go back to tolling in other forums.</p>
<p>What do you mean by “ugly?” Are you being literal - as in, they are physically unattractive? Or do you mean they are unpleasant people?</p>
<p>What about my post history made you suspect I’m a ■■■■■? Upscale areas are known to prize car window decals from brand-name colleges and students everywhere do wear their college apparel back home. Maybe the older folks don’t but I’m not convinced.</p>
<p>I love Princeton and wear Princeton gear when I’m on campus and attending local Princeton events but I never wear it elsewhere. This is with the humble recognition that my admission to Princeton contained a lot of luck and I realize people as capable as I am or more (or as “just as interesting”) could have gotten in instead had my app been read by a different admissions officer or even the same one but on a different day.</p>
<p>For many of us, it’s also annoying how older people harp about their alma mater specifically for the purpose of highlighting how special they are. This is true of several posters on CC but I will not name any names. They can and should acknowledge their affiliation with their alma mater, of course, but they should do so with the recognition that they might not have gotten in today if they had applied. Times have changed, and it’s inappropriate to be riding on the successes of your alma mater’s students today who got in on a 7% admission rate when it was much easier back in the day.</p>
<p>I live in the midwest, and am a parent. I know about a dozen people off the top of my head who went to HYP. I can’t recall ever seeing one of them (good looking or not, and they are a mixture) in a shirt from their school, nor have I noticed any bumper stickers/window decals on their cars. I personally do occasionally wear a school t-shirt or sweatshirt from my alma mater (not HPY), so some people our age do wear school logo items sometimes.</p>
<p>To be honest, there are many inequalities that exist in this world, and yes, physical attributes is one dimension where there is inequality. I think we should acknowledge that fact and move on. I do believe that physically unattractive people with low self-esteem are more likely to brag about their brand-name college to feel better about themselves. I think it’s great it gives them such an ego boost, but I’m not so sure if it’s healthy for them to base their happiness on making other people less adequate for not attending a brand-name school.</p>
<p>nychomie,
Are you physically attractive?</p>
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<p>I’m adding this to my collection of CC Unintentional Irony. :D</p>
<p>Nychomie, my nephew is a freshman at Princeton. He picked up two Princeton t shirts for his cousins (my twins, who are hs seniors). Ok for them to wear them, or not? Would it make a difference if they were not attending top schools themselves?</p>
<p>" I think it’s great it gives them such an ego boost, but I’m not so sure if it’s healthy for them to base their happiness on making other people less adequate for not attending a brand-name school."</p>
<p>How does wearing a HYP t shirt “make” onlookers feel less adequate? Seems to me any feelings of jealousy, resentment or inadequacy on the part of the onlooker is the onlooker’s problem.</p>
<p>How in the world do you know people are basing their happiness on making other people less adequate adequate?</p>
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<p>really confused… what is your purpose for posting in this parent cafe (non college topics) forum?</p>
<p>Please everyone, don’t encourage the bored children…</p>
<p>Bay, yes I am.
Pizzagirl, I attended Princeton.
You guys are clueless if you don’t think wearing a brand-name shirt in public is in part bragging, as if to say “wow, I want your attention. look at me. I went to Princeton, aren’t I special?”</p>
<p>Count me clueless!</p>
<p>Oh my gosh, if this is how the public really thinks, then gosh darn it, I won’t hesitate to name-drop at every conversation and wear Princeton gear everywhere. After all, people will not act around you differently if you drop the P-bomb or for that matter the H-bomb as well.</p>
<p>nychomie- get over your obsessions. You need to have the lightbulb in your head experience (see his other thread with the great lightbulb jokes as the 1st reply). The truly elite don’t need to brag about their experiences. You have some issues going on. The truly elite have nothing to do with the colleges that concern you- there’s a whole lot more to this country than the east coast. They went to all sorts of colleges and work all over. In fact most of the students who go to those elite colleges are only smart, not gifted- hardly elite in my book… Even a Bush went to Yale- they let all sorts of people into colleges. Etc.</p>
<p>PS- Princeton won’t cut it. It lacks so many things some students want. Start bragging when you get a doctorate of some sort.</p>