son goes to Sewanee so I get this a bit here. But I don’t get it when talking to people who are…how should I say this?.. highly educated and very successful. They all know of the school and immediately start talking about how they wished their kids would have chosen Sewanee.
Son works at the most prominent country club in town. Members always come by to talk to him and the other college kids working there. He said the conversation invariably turns to “what schools do you guys go to”?. They go around and the kids say big state u, prominent state private, then my son says Sewanee. He laughs because he says the members then spend the rest of the conversation talking about how great Sewanee is and how cool it is that he choose to go there. The other kids look at him and just shake their head. Sort of funny.