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Mostly, I'm curious to see how people define colleges' and universities' students and alumni in terms of their attitudes toward classes, work, life, etc.; elitist rather than just elite. I'm sure I'll get a "this is a stupid thread idea" post, but I don't care.
I'll start with an elite school here on the West Coast that I also find almost insufferably elitist: UCLA. I have worked with grads from other great California schools, namely Berkeley, UC San Diego, USC, and Stanford, and none of the graduates I've encountered from any of those admittedly elite schools behave as arrogantly as the typical UCLA student or graduate I encounter. But I would also say that Stanford still has its share of overtly elitist types.
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Of those you mentioned, Stanford and Berkeley people seem to think they're the most elite. Not sure what happened to Caltech; I just don't run into Caltech grads, which seems odd. On the east coast it's MIT hands down in the elitism department for engineering/technology schools. Among other schools, take your pick -- Harvard, Yale, Hopkins (for medical), any school beginning with "George", etc...
Of those you mentioned, Stanford and Berkeley people seem to think they're the most elite. Not sure what happened to Caltech; I just don't run into Caltech grads, which seems odd. On the east coast it's MIT hands down in the elitism department for engineering/technology schools. Among other schools, take your pick -- Harvard, Yale, Hopkins (for medical), any school beginning with "George", etc...
Not surprising you don't run into many Caltech grads. Graduating class size is typically less than 250. It's a tiny place.
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