Rich kid schools?

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Anonymous wrote:Alabama. The amount of money there is mind blowing — Porsches, range rovers, carrying Goyard bags to class, etc. These aren’t the smart (scholarship) kids, but the ones that will go into the family business and don’t really need good grades. But there’s a lot of them.

This is not how real wealth presents itself

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Anonymous wrote:Alabama. The amount of money there is mind blowing — Porsches, range rovers, carrying Goyard bags to class, etc. These aren’t the smart (scholarship) kids, but the ones that will go into the family business and don’t really need good grades. But there’s a lot of them.

This is not how real wealth presents itself

These kids are absolutely wealthy. Just not New England wasp culture.

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Sure but those cars are not paid off

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Anonymous wrote: I work on Wall Street and have literally never heard of anyone who went to Bucknell. Never. If that's your goal and you want a small college, then try Williams, Colgate, maybe Barnard (with Baruch being the real secret door).

What do you mean by “Baruch” being the secret door?

It's part of CUNY, and is insanely inexpensive, even OOS. But its business students do exceedingly well on Wall Street, in part because of the ability to do internships during the school year, and in part because its students aren't privileged doucfbags like the Princeton or Wiliiams crowd.

So glad to hear (although I’ve heard this a few times about Baruch).

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Anonymous wrote:Any elite school with an per-student-endowment of $800k or above is going to attract a significant amount of FGLI and lower middle class through financial aid. So while schools like Dartmouth, Williams, Amherst, and Bowdoin have a lot of rich kids, they also have a significant portion of poor kids. The real rich-kid schools, IME, are usually in just below the super elite tiers (ranked above T25) but still have cachet and have stingy financial aid because of their smaller endowments--e.g., NYU, USC, Colorado College, Midd, Wake Forest, etc. There are exceptions though--Wesleyan, for example, doesn't have a huge endowment, but is very generous with their financial aid.

Exactly this.

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Anonymous wrote:Bucknell is a great school for getting rich after you graduate. The alumni network is fiercely loyal, and tons of grads end up in high-paying jobs on The Street.

Give it a rest already.

+1

To paraphrase Regina George, “Stop trying to make “The Street” + Bucknell happen. It’s not going to happen.”

Seriously, this person is hilarious. They just can’t seem to help themself ….

NP. Yes! And, they save themselves all of 1 character by typing The Street. And, would Actually be less typing if they said Wall St but they have to keep trying to make this a thing.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Alabama. The amount of money there is mind blowing — Porsches, range rovers, carrying Goyard bags to class, etc. These aren’t the smart (scholarship) kids, but the ones that will go into the family business and don’t really need good grades. But there’s a lot of them.

This is not how real wealth presents itself

These kids are absolutely wealthy. Just not New England wasp culture.

Agree with this. Someone doing this in New England might be seen as faking it or weird. But in some areas of the country it is normal for extremely wealthy people to show off expensive items.

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Georgetown. They have to take full pay since they have no money

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Anonymous wrote:Any elite school with an per-student-endowment of $800k or above is going to attract a significant amount of FGLI and lower middle class through financial aid. So while schools like Dartmouth, Williams, Amherst, and Bowdoin have a lot of rich kids, they also have a significant portion of poor kids. The real rich-kid schools, IME, are usually in just below the super elite tiers (ranked above T25) but still have cachet and have stingy financial aid because of their smaller endowments--e.g., NYU, USC, Colorado College, Midd, Wake Forest, etc. There are exceptions though--Wesleyan, for example, doesn't have a huge endowment, but is very generous with their financial aid.

+1.

I'd add that that the students at these "rich kid schools" (USC, Midd, etc.) are actually very good academically. College admissions is so competitive today.

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Anonymous wrote:I generally consider the schools where there are a lot of rich but non-academically performing kids. The very top schools have more money around to filter out these out in place of the top performers.

Colby
SMU
University of Richmond
Miami
Middlebury
Williams
Sweetbriar
Hampden Sydney
In the past, Vandy, but the academics have improved and it’s a harder admit now.

Some of the kids at those schools are really strong academically.

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Skidmore.

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CW Post was a Famous Rich Kid school to go to when I went to school. Now called Long Island University but still nicknamed CW Post

It was very easy to get into. But was expensive, it is on the former Post Mansion in an area surrounded by Mansions on Long Island.

Has like a 93 percent acceptance rate.

I think it is a good niche. Stupid rich kids need a school to go to network and marry other stupid rich kids.

School is often a spot where people take wedding pictures and featured in movies. Very nice area. Kinda like if Potomac or Chevy Chase had a college.

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There were full hired moving trucks with movers moving rich kid into dorm at our school.

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Anonymous wrote:Georgetown. They have to take full pay since they have no money

this...show off your wealth in the application. that's one place it won't hurt you.

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Anonymous wrote:Georgetown. They have to take full pay since they have no money

this...show off your wealth in the application. that's one place it won't hurt you.

I’ve always wondered why their endowment is so bad on a per student basis. They take so many prep schools kids, yet these people don’t seem to donate even if they went to schools like Deerfield or Groton with strong giving cultures.