<p>Just wondering what schools were stupid enough to pass us up!</p>
<p>Don’t be ridiculous. This is as arrogant as I can imagine. You’re 18 hours as a Harvard admit and you already act like this, the worst stereotype of the Harvard rump? </p>
<p>Geez – your classmates will love you…</p>
<p>Oh, I think Swisskisses should enjoy this kind of nonsense now, before Harvard stomps all the self-assurance out of him or her.</p>
<p>I don’t think this is much worse than the ridiculous posturing that kids do during Freshman Week. (My wife swears she overheard someone say, “Oh, I really envy you, reading The Magic Mountain for the first time!”)</p>
<p>Kind of dumb to do it in public, though. It reinforces the stereotype that we’re all pompous.</p>
<p>Oh, and thirty-some years ago, I didn’t get into Yale. Somehow, they have managed to muddle through anyway.</p>
<p>What kind of role model are you intending to be for all of the high school students out there thinking to dream big? After seeing this, I’m not afraid of rejection so much as I am of arrogance and perpetual gloating. Good luck at Harvard but try to stay humble…I’m sure this was probably a joke but note that there are others out there that are probably on the brink of insanity because of rejection or even deffering.</p>
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<p>Or maybe if Harvard made a mistake?</p>
<p>LOL: good one philo</p>
<p>This reminds me of a funny anecdote: Upon entering my non-Harvard Ivy (with equal pretentiousness capacity), all of us were assigned a faculty member as an advisor. </p>
<p>Mine called a meeting at one of the common rooms to introduce himself and for all his advisees to meet one another. There was about a dozen guys gathered together and we sat in a circle on various couches and chairs. One fellow insisted that we call him by not his given name but “Chateau” (curious as this is French for “house” or “mansion”). Whatever, right? </p>
<p>As the professor begins his meeting, Chateau gets up from his chair and lies down right in the center of the circle, reclining with his hands behind his head, listening to the professor. My advisor noticed this but didn’t say anything. Around the circle, there were rolling eyes and smirks and thoughts of “Who does this guy think he is?”. Later as we were talking one of the other guys said “Hey Big Toe… oops, sorry, Chateau…” That caught us and several of us let out smothered laughter. </p>
<p>I heard that later on, Chateau reverted back to his given name. The witty quipper turned out to be in my residential college and became one of my best friends. It turns out he’d been a prep school boy from long ago and could sniff out posers easily. He was very down to earth and a great guy – funny and a super quick wit. </p>
<p>Sikorsky: an example of having “the self-assurance stomped out”, no? LOL</p>
<p>I’m actually baffled by other peoples responses. I wasn’t trying to be arrogant at all. Now that I re-read it, I guess I was. </p>
<p>& I honestly was just wondering. It was more as a playfully statement mocking the process, not gloating. I think you were taking it a bit too seriously.</p>
<p>And to be frank, I know someone @parisbarka77 who applied to all of the ivies and was rejected to every single one +MIT.
Your college only carries weight. You make what you want out of college.</p>
<p>So, Swisskisses, here’s something you need to learn fast if you’re going to go to Harvard: the name itself provokes all kinds of reactions, many of which are not at all rational. I have said on College Confidential before, you can practice all you want saying “Harvard” exactly the same way you’d say “Ohio State” or “Connecticut College,” but you can’t do a damn thing about the way people are going to hear it. Heck, I went to Harvard, and even I heard arrogance that time! And I’ll bet you dollars to doughnuts that has something to do with why T26E4 said “non-Harvard Ivy peer,” or whatever he said, instead of naming his college.</p>
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<p>swisskiss: Plz allow me to take back my hard response to you. In a sincere way, “welcome to the club”. I don’t mean that in any elite way either. But as a recipient (and I assume you’ll attend) of an offer from H, you’ll realize that that will forever be an appendage to your identity. Every employer will say to his/her peers – I just hired this Harvard grad. Neighbors will say: you know that guy/gal down the street that just moved in? Harvard grad. Complete strangers will sneer and assume you’re a pompous Thurston Howell-esque a$$ because you happen to grab an old worn out Harvard sweatshirt while running to the store to grab some cornflakes for your kid. Your grandkids, 150 years from know will say to their grandkids: “you know, my grampa/gramma went to Harvard”.</p>
<p>it happens. and as humble or unassuming you carry yourself, it’ll be there. So my honest and sincere advice is: you’ve been given a great gift (albeit deserved). Handle it gently. Don’t hide it. Use it well. Know that people will be intimidated by it. Have a great summer and enjoy Cambridge.</p>
<p>(go bulldogs!)</p>
<p>Great “bulldogs” comment at the end! LOL!</p>
<p>@T26E4. Well put. I know exactly what you mean. I have given a very similar advice to my son who was admitted in December. I must say he has been handling his Harvard acceptance with dignity.</p>
<p>Ah, the “H Bomb”. I learned about this from my son, who now is in grad school in California. If you tell people in Cambridge that you go to Harvard, it’s a big yawn, but anywhere else in the country (or in most of the world, however), the mention of Harvard gets all kinds of responses: amazement, sarcasm/derision, awe, disbelief, fill-in-the-blank. No one ever says, “Oh” or “Uh-huh” or “I don’t know that school.” While in school, S wore Harvard (and Harvard-related) t-shirts and sweatshirts (and socks and boxers that I bought to be cute). Now they are all sitting in a drawer here in Massachusetts. In CA, he wore a Harvard sweatshirt once, and some guy just gave him hell (“Oh, big shot, did you really go there or did you buy that on a family trip”). So yeah, it’s an appendage.</p>
<p>S wears his house sweatshirt, never owned a Harvard one. When people asked where he went to school he would usually try to get away with telling them “in Boston” thus avoiding the usual follow-up conversation.</p>
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He actually doesn’t own a straight up Harvard sweatshirt; he has one from the extra-curricular group he was in.</p>
<p>My daughter has one Harvard hoodie but mostly she wears stuff proclaiming her House, especially the t-shirts celebrating that her House was Straus Cup champion. </p>
<p>But on the rare occasions that she wore the hoodie post-graduation, her roommate, who went to another school, used to good-naturedly tease and scold her as an elitist Harvard snob. But the irony is the roommate later decided to go back to school to get an MBA and ended up at Harvard Business School. And now in all her Facebook photos the roommate is always decked-out to the hilt in Harvard gear.</p>
<p>Does it really get that much of an reaction? Cause in my neck of the woods, no one really cares. It is a great school, but there are other great schools. It’s amazing that there is such hostility</p>
<p>Oh, wow. I just realized this was a thing. I get to be that guy who says he went to a school in New Jersey. ^_^</p>
<p>Say it with a jersey accent for bonus points :)</p>
<p>Guess I’ll be saying I went to a school across the river from Hahvad then…</p>
<p>T2, that was some good advice (I would assume it applies to Harvard’s peer schools as well). Really well put.</p>
<p>And we know the guy who got his BA thru Harvard’s extension program- I believe he was required to take classes on campus only 1 semester and maybe a couple of classes one summer- the rest were all done from a remote location. He loves to name-drop Harvard and wears Harvard clothing all the time. He is very pretentious and unfortunately gives all Harvard grads a bad name!</p>