"Liberal Arts" Schools

There's a shit ton of them in these parts. And if you don't know about them you're a fool. If someone says they went to Raysbush, you don't want to be the asshole who says, "Where's/What's that?" Some of the rules of thumb I have already implemented:

1) Respond, "Raybush, Wow! Impressive"

2) The person will most likely respond something like "Eh, not really, it was okay." To which you respond, "No, that's a real great school, I've heard some great things about it."

3) If you've never heard of it, its a good school. (Guess this goes along with 1).

4) Immediately refrain from mentioning that you work in finance.

5) However, you may want to mention it because:

a) If she is a female, her whole life is essentially hanging on that she meets a guy who is actually going to make good money so that she can continue liberating africa

b) Maybe most importantly, her dad is a VP at Goldman, thus her ability to attend a 30.000,00 (US$) private school since the seventh grade. She has a soft spot for them. (If its a guy, living in Manhattan, he is either bankrolled by said VP, or is aspiring to be one himself.)

6) Mention the Claremont Schools. Even though most people who grew up quite near these schools didn't think much of them for most of our lives, you will get an excited response because these schools are something like the Harvard and MIT for those people whose parents already went to those schools and made it ($$$$$) in life, and now their kids will aspire for a more "holistic" sense of happiness. [I legit met a girl whose brother chose a school named Bowdoin {pronounced Bo-Din } over a school named Princeton. This girl is probably the nicest girl that I've met in NYC, but she was more confused that I was confused about the decision that her brother made.)

In conclusion, Liberal Arts Schools are cooler than I originally thought. Even after I thought they were already pretty sick.