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Ivy League graduates often find themselves (well, ourselves) in contexts where it’s not unusual to have an Ivy League degree, which from the outside is “holy shit, you move in Ivy-bedecked elite circles” but from the inside is “having an Ivy League degree is not a distinction that significantly structures my status hierarchies”

Part three of gays answering the age-old question: “Where did you go to college?” #ivyleague #princeton #cornell #admissions #gay

Cornell
Ask a Cornell gay where he went to school and he’ll say “Oh! I hate this question because I don’t want to sound like I’m showing off, but… it’s an Ivy.” He wants you to know he went to an Ivy, but he doesn’t want you to know which one. And that’s because—it’s Cornell.

Ivy League graduates often find themselves (well, ourselves) in contexts where it’s not unusual to have an Ivy League degree, which from the outside is “holy shit, you move in Ivy-bedecked elite circles” but from the inside is “having an Ivy League degree is not a distinction that significantly structures my status hierarchies”

As a Cornellian, glad that as broader trends in college going progress, Cornell’s reputation in the Ivy League (relatively large and partially part of the SUNY system, it was essentially the state flagship college of the league) has risen in stature as Dartmouth (it’s really New England boys from yachting families who went to prep school, without any reputation of being particularly good) has fallen

Harvard, Yale, and Princeton have the reputation as elite-of-the-elite, Brown are the liberal arts hippies, it’s actually kinda strange that even as NYU had its big come-up off “Being In Manhattan” you didn’t really hear about Columbia

As a Cornellian, been fond of the last 20 years of overdue pivot from “ew Cornell, they’re state school tryhards, bottom of the Ivy League” to “ew Dartmouth, they’re degenerate unmeritocratic old money, bottom of the Ivy League”