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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You do know you can transfer - right? I do not feel bad for anyone who just whines and doesn't try to do anything about it. [/quote]

If you watch this kid’s YouTube video on where he got in, you will see he is the child of immigrants with a very low income. I don’t think transferring is easy for kids that are on large amounts of financial aid. He was a questbridge finalist or something, so under $65,000 HHI[/quote]

Wonder if part of his problem is meeting kids there who have immense family wealth and he’s being eaten up with jealousy. It’s one thing to know that billionaires exist, it’s another to meet one and think “why him and not me?”[/quote]

May not be jealousy- but even if others are trotting to include him he would be excluded.

Kind of hard to not have any spending money and get asked to go to the Witherspoon grill for dinner and be expected to drop a min of $100.

Or get asked to go to someone’s ski house in Utah, and forget about not having $ for the flight but having to rent skis, get clothing, having $ for going out.

I am sure being around so many with $ is an issue - but I would not perceive it as jealousy but honestly not being able to fit in with Ben if others are not intentionally excluding him. He cannot easily live in their world unless they foot the bill for him - that’s a fact. [/quote]

It may not be jealousy but simply being aware that the world of rich people exists and you're not in it (and never will be) cannot fail to affect your attitude towards those people and the place where you encountered them.[/quote]

An opposite perspective. I was a scholarship kid from a blue collar family at a selective university where I encountered seriously rich kids for the first time. Not “private school, vacation in Europe, drive a Mercedes” rich but “went to boarding school in NH/NY/CT because my parent live in Saudi or Qatar and they have hired someone to come clean our room and do our laundry once a week” rich. My rich friends were always really generous and their families were really welcoming. I remember a girl in my dorm lending me a dress to go to the opera and giving me a crash course on what to expect and how to act ahead of time. Little things add up over 4 years and I graduated into a consulting job with lots of hotels, airport lounges, and client dinners. Nothing in my pre-college life had prepared me for flying 1st class or accepting a client’s invite to play tennis at her club - but my experiences in college did. [/quote]

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