Yale

Colleges and Universities A-Z Yale University
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<p>How do you tell people that you are attending Yale without sounding pretentious?</p>

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<p>well… i’m kind of already a crazy, so people don’t find it weird when I maniacally shout “YALE YAY!!!” in response to their queries.</p>

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<p>I know someone who, when asked what college he attends, responds with the name of his residential college.</p>

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<p>I just say I’m going to school out East (I live in the Midwest). If they ask further, I tell them honestly.</p>

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<p>A very similar thread was started over on the Harvard forum. I’d say 99% of it applies for Yalies</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/harvard-university/712278-how-come-harvard-students-prefer-conceal-fact-they-attend-harvard.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/harvard-university/712278-how-come-harvard-students-prefer-conceal-fact-they-attend-harvard.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>The answer to the OP’s question: people will label you pretentious or not regardless of how you do it. Just do your best to be humble and understand where people are coming from – you’ll be all right.</p>

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<p>Don’t volunteer it or drop Yale tales into casual conversation. Reveal only when asked and then don’t dwell on it.</p>

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<p>When people I don’t know ask me I say (in this order). I go to school:</p>

<p>Back East
In Connecticut
In New Haven
to Yale</p>

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<p>My old friend Chip used to say, “A Yale man should be discovered.” </p>

<p>It’s not true in New Haven, judging by the apparent requirement of wearing Yale clothing. Maybe that’s to say, “I don’t actually live in New Haven.”</p>

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<p>You have just described my child. But when he talks to somebody who may know what is really going on (e.g., doctors). he dares not play this trick.</p>

<p>Not to be mean or anything here, here is an interesting story: When he had a haircut at one time (in freshmen), he told the lady who cut his hair that he went to Yale when asked. That lady did not know what school it is and started to comment that one of her relatives went a better school - a local state college.</p>

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<p>I just say Yale. Nobody cares.</p>