Do other students benefit from the overrepresentation of the wealthiest 0.1% at T20s and top SLACs?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Or they are going Alps skiing during Spring break. Sadly your fin aid kid will be studying in the library cramming for a prelim after the break. No social media signals needed.

Do rich kids get to bribe their way out of prelims?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Or they are going Alps skiing during Spring break. Sadly your fin aid kid will be studying in the library cramming for a prelim after the break. No social media signals needed.

Or renting the private staffed villa at casa de Campo (guilty)
Or
renting a 200k/week villa in St Barth’s with 10 kids from your frat

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It's pretty incredible sometimes just to be in the same building as them. If you find yourself with the incredible good fortune to be in the same room, awe-inspiring. Truly a monumental experience.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's pretty incredible sometimes just to be in the same building as them. If you find yourself with the incredible good fortune to be in the same room, awe-inspiring. Truly a monumental experience.

You’d be a good butler.

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Anonymous wrote:All day long, yes

Gross

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Anonymous wrote:My cousin and their friends were private jetted to Europe for their super wealthy classmate's wedding. DD was friends with son of a mega millionaire but he was too humble and simple, most people didn't even know he was wealthy and son of a celebrity.

New money vs. old money.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sorry to be blunt but do you hang out with people much lower income than you?

OP here, fair question. My job is high income, but I often interact with lower income coworkers throughout the course of the day - spending hours with them at a time so I do meet many lower income folks. I do have friends and socialize with lower income and higher income groups, but there is not much overlap between the two.

how you perceive those less-blessed people is basically how those 0.1% perceive you - pity

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If you consider bidding for a $5m dollars banana for fun is a way of hanging out.

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2024/nov/21/maurizio-cattelans-duct-taped-banana-artwork-fetches-us52m-at-new-york-auction

[Anonymous]

Rich kids are not handing out money or jobs to the poor kids. Strivers are not attractive in their world.

[Anonymous]

So far I'm hearing that the rich kids are hanging together based on pre-college friendships and geography. The ones below that have more integrated friendships as nobody in that group has unaffordable hobbies. Vacations are taken with parents, not school friends.

[Anonymous]

I see plenty of mixing between UMC and really wealthy students at granola schools. If you ski, climb, backpack, etc. it’s easy to do with others and not break the bank. Especially schools with local skiing like Middlebury or CU Boulder.

[Anonymous]

My kid at an Ivy says that the 20-30 kids from Andover/Exeter/Choate/Groton etc all merged friend groups and only keep to themselves.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Or they are going Alps skiing during Spring break. Sadly your fin aid kid will be studying in the library cramming for a prelim after the break. No social media signals needed.

Do rich kids get to bribe their way out of prelims?

Rich kids don’t need to care how well they do on prelims.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's pretty incredible sometimes just to be in the same building as them. If you find yourself with the incredible good fortune to be in the same room, awe-inspiring. Truly a monumental experience.

Lol well played.

[Anonymous]

It’s really never been that the poorest students become good friends with the ultra wealthy, but it does benefit your everyday UMC kid (full pay and at least top 5%…but nowhere near top 0.1%).

The sought after fraternities and sororities will have plenty of everyday UMC mixed in with serious wealthy. Sports teams even in country club sports (and the teams tend to hang out together socially a ton) will have very wealthy and everyday UMC.

Let’s face it…it’s easier for these groups to get along because the UMC kid may have skied at Aspen, while the top 0.1% kid owns a $50MM house at Aspen…but they can still talk about Aspen.