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  1. FTFaculty

    FTFaculty Well-Known Member

    FTFaculty, Sep 11, 2015
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  2. Bruce

    Bruce Moderator

    If you ever met her, you'd want to throttle her in about 10 minutes. The clear implication was that she graduated from Harvard College, not HES. My sister-in-law, who did graduate Harvard College (and Harvard Business School) hasn't mentioned Harvard in the 20 years I've known her as much as this woman did in an hour.

    A lot of people here want to draw & quarter those who say they graduated from the University of Maryland without including that it was UMUC. I don't see a whole lot of difference between that and the HES example.
     
    Bruce, Sep 11, 2015
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  3. SteveFoerster

    SteveFoerster Resident Gadfly Staff Member

    Oh, I sympathize. I had a kid in a training group once who went to Princeton and was like that. It was his first real job after graduating, and he hadn't learned yet that in the Washington, D.C. area this didn't make him anywhere near as special as he'd apparently been led to believe. There was a girl who went to Cornell in the same training group and was similar, although she caught on faster to STFU about it.

    Well, the difference is that HES is a school within Harvard University, and Harvard University itself confirms that HES graduates are alumni of Harvard University -- it is a constituent school of a unitary institution. UMUC is a different institution from the University of Maryland at College Park, with different administration and different accreditation; the two are simply owned by the same organization (the State of Maryland) and have confusingly similar names.

    Similarly, Georgetown has a night school that's pretty similar to HES, and I wouldn't blink an eye at someone who finished a degree there saying they went to Georgetown. I'm not sure what else they could even say.
     
    SteveFoerster, Sep 11, 2015
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  4. FTFaculty

    FTFaculty Well-Known Member

    The people who want to tout their educational credentials are generally the most desperately insecure. Like one who "earned" their "PhD" from a mill and then lists themselves as "Dr. Joe Schmoe, PhD" and has a bio photo in full doctoral regalia.
     
    FTFaculty, Sep 11, 2015
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