<p>Swarthmore: (I live in Arizona) </p>
<p>“… what’s that?” </p>
<p>-major, major facepalm-</p>
<p>Northwestern:</p>
<p>It will be cold. (Thanks, I didn’t know…<em>roll eyes</em>)
Where is it?</p>
<p>Bryn Mawr:</p>
<p>“Oh, I didn’t know you were a lesbian!”
“You mean there are no boys there? How are you going to find a husband?”
“So you don’t want a boyfriend?”
“So is that like a convent? Are you going to be a nun?”</p>
<p>As evidenced by the ladies from Smith who have also posted in this thread, comments like these are fairly typical for anyone attending a women’s college. </p>
<p>Also, the Welsh name tends to trip people up. When I tell people where I’m going, I get a wide range of comments:</p>
<p>“What is that, Swedish/Hungarian/Portuguese/etc?”
“How do you spell that?”
“Does it mean something, or is it just gibberish?”</p>
<p>Marshall University</p>
<p>“Ewww! Why aren’t you going to WVU?”</p>
<h2>“Because I want to do something besides burn couches and throw garbage at ball games.” ~ Footballmom104</h2>
<p>WVU</p>
<p>“Don’t all you guys just burn couches and throw garbage at ball games.”</p>
<p>1) In my time at WVU I only spent 50% of my time burning couches, at most. </p>
<p>2) The other 25% was spent puking into gutters, winning BCS Bowls, and going deep into the NCAA Tournament.</p>
<p>3) I can’t remember the other 25%.</p>
<p>LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO MOUNTAINEERS!</p>
<p>Woah, Woah, Woah - Clap, FIRST DOWN!</p>
<p>Where I live Northeastern’s really popular and everyone basically thinks its Northwestern. I know this d bag kid who consistently brags about how Northeastern’s a “top 20 school with a great journalism program”. That annoys me because I’m applying to Medill and when I say I’m applying to Northwestern, they’re all like “oh that’s Northeastern’s second campus right?” or “Isn’t that the same as Northeastern?”</p>
<p>um no.</p>
<p>Oglethorpe</p>
<p>“Doesnt it look like a castle”</p>
<p>“Ive never heard of it”</p>
<p>“What the hell is a Stormy Petrel”</p>
<p>USC-Southern California</p>
<p>Me:" I’m going to USC."
others: “oh you are going to University of South Carolina?”
: “oh you are going to UCLA?”</p>
<p>SUNY Binghamton</p>
<p>“Oh… So you couldn’t get into [insert Ivy, usually Cornell]?”
OR
“Are you gonna transfer to Cornell?”
OR
“Ivy-League Reject School.”</p>
<p>I also get:
“Oh you go to Binghamton! You’re from Long Island, right? You must be REALLY rich! Do you live in the Hamptons?!”
- Um no. I am from LI but its pretty large island (and yes, it is an island… <em>sigh</em>). Also there are a few definitions to rich…</p>
<p>“Ewww I heard it rains all the time there!”
- Yes it does, but I happen to like clouds/rain/snow so no problem for me. </p>
<p>And lastly about my major:
“You’re majoring in WHAT?! ‘PPL!’ People?!”
- Geez no. Philosophy, Politics and Law, not “people…”
“So you want to be a social worker… [Assumes PPL is for People…]”</p>
<p>Bennington College</p>
<p>I don’t mind “where? What? Huh?”, because I don’t expect people in Georgia to know about a tiny college in Vermont, the one I do mind is : “Why on earth would you ever want to go to Vermont?! It’s so cold!”</p>
<p>To which I usually answer “Mostly because it isn’t Georgia”</p>
<p>Safety Ivy. Lower Tier Ivy. Easy Ivy to get into. (Hello, larger student body = larger acceptance rate)
But most of all, Wharton. If I hear one more “Penn should change their name to Wharton” “It’s only ranked highly because of Wharton” “[insert any statement here] Wharton” I’m going to go insane.</p>
<p>@rainbowdazzle: wow I’ve never heard anyone refer to Penn like that lol, that’s pretty harsh and not thorroughly true, IMHO</p>
<p>^ If you go to a good private college that’s not Harvard/Yale, then people think it’s their job to remind you that you don’t attend the #1 college in the country repeatedly for some reason. I’ve heard people make comments like that in real life and on CC quite frequently.</p>
<p>If you go to Cornell/Brown/Dartmouth/Penn you will get the “easy ivy to get into!” or Harvard reject! line. </p>
<p>If you go to a top non-Ivy college you’ll get “<em>Insert elite college in area</em> Reject School” - Fordham students are told they’re NYU rejects, NYU students are called Columbia rejects, Columbia kids are called Harvard rejects. Boston U students are told they’re Boston College rejects who are told they’re Harvard rejects, etc…</p>
<p>These comments are usually from people who attend average schools in my experience.
An excellent question :)</p>
<p>Berkeley:</p>
<p>“You’re going to come back a pot smoking, berkenstock wearing, communist”</p>
<p>Ok, that’s not literally what I get, but everyone thinks that Berkeley is still the Berkeley of the 60s.</p>
<p>Kentucky</p>
<p>followed by people IMMEDIATLY bringing up college basketball and just talking about UK basketball for the next 30 minutes</p>
<p>Smith:</p>
<p>“Oh are you going to come back a lesbian? ho ho ho”</p>
<p>“All girls? What about finding a husband?”</p>
<p>:/</p>
<p>UNC, which i’m attending for journalism
“oh…so you’re going to the socialism school?”
well, thank you, but i’m not a socialist :)</p>
<p>“you’re never going to get a boyfriend there, they’re all gay.”
good thing i’m not trying to get a boyfriend now then, anyway.</p>
<p>University of Maryland:</p>
<p>“Isn’t that a safety school? I thought you were smart.”</p>
<p>… sigh. The in-staters are way harsher on it than people out of state.</p>
<p>University of Pennsylvania</p>
<p>“Hey I have a friend who goes to Penn State too…”</p>
<p>If I went to Penn State, I would have said Penn State instead of just Penn.</p>
<p>About USC (University of Southern California): </p>
<p>“It’s expensive.”
“Why didn’t you want to go to UCLA?”
“It’s a bad neighborhood.”</p>
<p>“wow, a lot of people go greek there” </p>
<p>my thought process sees it as them saying there are too many GDIs</p>