<p>Mine about Clemson:</p>
<p>"Oh, it's in North Carolina <or insert="" any="" area="" of="" the="" country="" other="" than="" where="" it="" is="">, isn't it?" (it's in South Carolina)</or></p>
<p>"Oh that's the school with the football team right?"</p>
<p>“there’s no social life.”</p>
<p>“is it a military academy?”</p>
<p>Columbia:<br>
“Good school, but not as cool as nyu.”</p>
<p>ASU:
party school.</p>
<p>It is. But still. People think that I’m not going to a real college.</p>
<p>McGill:
“Oh, I didn’t know you speak French.”</p>
<p>I do, but that’s not the point!</p>
<p>Stanford,</p>
<p>“Connecticut is… nice…”
“Why would you want to go all the way to California?”
“I bet you could’ve gotten into Harvard!”</p>
<p>“You go to Cal Poly Pomona?”
Referring to my school as “Ponoma”</p>
<p>“Minnesota? It’s cold there.”</p>
<p>After you hear it 200 times, it gets a little difficult to smile and nod.</p>
<p>I always get “…oh… you must be rich!” or “…oh… you must be SO SMART!”</p>
<p>It’s awkward, because I don’t think I’m either, and how do you respond to that gracefully?</p>
<p>About UChicago: “Oh, I almost went to the University of Illinois at Chicago back when I was applying for grad school.”</p>
<p>@Emaheevul07: “No, it’s just that you’re really poor.” or “No, it’s just that you’re stupid.”</p>
<p>…kidding.</p>
<p>*Party School
*drunken “…”
*We are Penn State</p>
<p>They don’t really bother me though, they’re just jealous.</p>
<p>Vanderbilt:</p>
<p>“Work Hard, Play Hard” school</p>
<p>I think we play a lot harder than we work.</p>
<p>“Oh, so you must be smart then?”</p>
<p>And I’m usually like “Uh, I guess in an academic context I am.”</p>
<p>I hate when people assume I think I’m really smart/better than others because I’m going to NYU. I dont think I’m dumb, but I dont assume myself to be more intelligent than anyone else.</p>
<p>WUSTL</p>
<p>“oh, is that in dc or in the state?”</p>
<p>…grumble.</p>
<p>SSU:</p>
<p>From other students:</p>
<p>“There’s nothing to do!”</p>
<p>From people in my hometown:</p>
<p>“Oh, where’s that?”</p>
<p>(especially among those annoying elites)
“Oh, that’s not a real Ivy League school.”
“Anyone can get into that school.”
“Safety school”</p>
<p>vanderbilt: “oh that’s a great school…where is that again?”
“how do you like ohio?”
“so you must be really smart”
“what made you go all the way out there”
“oh so you must be rich (false)”</p>
<p>Harvard:</p>
<p>“Oh, so now you’re going to be all snobbish, eh?”
“Oh, you must be so smart!” –> this illusion is dispelled after 5 minutes or so
“Jesus! Won’t it be hard for you all the way out there? Do they even have black people on campus?”
“Didja get a scholarship?”
“I think it’s dangerous to have a roommate.”
“They have such awful grade inflation. You should have gone to a school with more rigorous grading.” [this came from a Cornell grad :)]</p>
<p>These aren’t things people actually say about Harvard, but these comments always comes up in college-related conversation. It’s really annoying.</p>
<p>Chapel Hill:
“Oh, but that’s so easy to get into! Surely you could’ve gotten into UofX (usually their school)”
“…Where’s that, now?”
“Oh wow, is that the one by the beach? We used to vacation there and it’s simply beautiful! You’ll have so much fun there <em>wink</em>”</p>