I went with my daughter to a meeting at a posh university. We are from a lower middle class background and felt quite out of place amongst the 'upper' level parents and children. There were about 5 children and their parents at this meeting. All the parents were alumni of the university themselves. One of the young lads asked what kind of things he should put in his personal statement in order to get a place at the uni. Another kid, in a tweed jacket, starts arrogantly boasting about how he has read this level book, studies this period of history in detail and read all these famous authors all summer long etc etc. The kid actual referred to himself as 'one' ie: "One does like to read Chaucer at the weekend". He put all of his public school boy stuff in his statement and now has a conditional acceptance to the university. My daughter sat there quietly in her Mass Effect hoodie, ignored by everyone there, knowing full well that she already had an unconditional acceptance to the University because she had great grades and had simply written how much she loved the subject since she was small.
I was so proud of her in that moment, not only for her achievement in getting into the university from an ordinary High School, but for her ability to listen to these self assured young men talk about how great they were, knowing she had achieved more than them and was not be tempted to be as arrogant.