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Anonymous wrote:It’s she unfair but benefits the wealthy so won’t go anywhere.
You do realize the wealthy, full-pay families are what provide so many benefits to the students who can’t afford full-pay, correct?
Can you cite the benefits you are referring to? Please provide specific examples.
Would you rather have your poor kid go to a school with all other poor kids, or one with many rich kids? Say stats are the same for the sake of argument, but be honest with yourself.
For most people, the presence of rich kids is itself a benefit.
Why would the poor kid want to go to school with rich kids?
Connections. Your roommate or friend's parents are rich and well connected and they help you find internships and jobs. If you remain friends with them after college, you have a group now that has many more connections than the average kid or poor kid where 90% of their community never went to college.
Show us a peer-reviewed study that demonstrates this actually happens. Just one.
Different poster, I am on the parent’s council at a top but not T10 private. This is a mechanism to increase parent giving that is incredibly successful and leads to the funding of projects that benefit all undergrads. Further, I know for a fact that parents on the council make sure that their companies recruit from the school, again benefits all undergrads.
It might happen occasionally. We need evidence that it’s a significant occurrence and can be replicated at various top colleges.
Okay no one has a cite so just send your kid to a poor kids school (there are plenty of them) and you'll probably be fine.
What on earth is a poor kids school? Maybe Princeton? More than 60 percent are on FA. Same with Stanford and MIT.
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I was thinking more like _____ State College. Many more poor kids at a school like that. If PP doesn't see being around rich kids as a benefit they can save a lot of time and hassle by going somewhere like that.
More vague anecdotes about “being around rich kids” as a benefit.
It wasn't an anecdote. If you don't want to be around rich kids it's REALLY easy to avoid them. Most people, in selecting colleges, real estate, and other such goods, show a strong revealed preference for being being as close to rich people as they can. That doesn't mean they're right to, but it should give you pause.