<p>School pride inevitably will create the impression of snobbery to many outsiders.</p>
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<p>Are you sure they weren’t just joking around? That sounds like something I would say, but in a way not meant to be taken literally.</p>
<p>I think there’s a subtle difference between school pride and snobbery (^Poly). For example, you can tell that students/alums of USC (Calif) and Florida State have a lot of school and sports pride. This is different from Harvard, Yale and maybe even Stanford, where the vibe not so much we love our school and its teams, rather we love ourselves as a group for who we and what we represent. Neither is negative unless it’s used to bring other down.</p>
<p>Actually, the snobbish school kids i ever encountered are from Duke campus when u visit there, u got the feeling. but … it is like … u imagine</p>
<p>Recently I met a Harvard sophomore through “Ivy Insider” (SAT test preparation). She was down to earth and was very much encouraging the students (most of them from the public high school she attended) to aspire high by telling how hard she had to work and how much she had to improve to get into Harvard. She was quite happy about her achievement but nothing close to being a snob.</p>
<p>I was walking around the school campus one time with a group of frinds (we did a school program there) and the people were so nice. They all seemes realy friendly and kind. Not snobby at the least.</p>
<p>Neither of my two kids there would tell you that they encountered any real snobbery. I certainly did at a Top 30 or so college in the South when I was in school, and I’ve picked up on the much more egalitarian vibe on the numerous occasions that I’ve visited the Harvard campus. But nearly everyone at Harvard was highly celebrated all their life and then landed in a place where they were just the norm. It’s apparently a very humbling experience - in a good way.</p>
<p>I think the legacy students are where you’re more likely to find snobbery - they know there’s a good chance they wouldn’t be at the school otherwise, and that sense of entitlement pervades what they do.</p>
<p>Stanford and Yale lead the pack in the legacy category I believe, so I’ll posit that that’s where you’d find the largest assortment of snobs.</p>
<p>Sun, as an alum of one of the two schools you mentioned, I can tell you that I had barely any sense of who was a legacy or not. You found out when the kid’s dad came to visit and had his school tie on. </p>
<p>If anything, I’d say legacies may have felt “we barely slipped in” as compared to some of the more astounding kids around us.</p>
<p>Snobbery was very rare at my college. Frankly, I found more snobbery at other Ivies than when I visited my eventual school as just an applicant, the February of my Senior year. Practically everyone I met was head over heels enthusiastic about the college and sincerely wished me the best of luck in my chances. I was really taken aback – here I was, some kid from a big urban school district – they didn’t know me from Adam and certainly didn’t know my chances of acceptance. That’s one of the reasons it was propelled to my first choice.</p>