I’ve observed that truly affluent families are blasé about where their kids go to college

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Anonymous wrote:Not really understanding the definition of "truly affluent".

If you look at where the children of the Top 100 richest American families attend, it is certainly clustered in Top 20 colleges. More so among the families where the person actually was the one to get themselves into the Top 100 (think Bill Gates or Stephen Schwartzman from Blackstone) vs. people in this group that inherited the wealth (think of the Waltons from Wal Mart).

I guess I just don't understand the premise.

I think she just means families with net worth in high millions (100+) as opposed to only 10M or so as we see often here.
There are more families like that than just the household names that you mentioned

Maybe, except I doubt sports hosts fall into the $100MM+ category. Maybe OP means HNW professional athletes? Their children tend to also be great athletes as well, so of course makes sense they are attending an SEC powerhouse or equivalent...but they are not blase about that...just their Top 20 would be based on the sport vs. USNews Top 20 academic rankings.

I took OP’s statement to mean owners of professional sports teams. These families are definitely high net worth and their kids are more likely go to the schools OP referenced than an Ivy.

Definitely not correct at all…children and grandchildren going to lots of different schools but just as many Harvards, Williams and NYUs as SEC or equivalent schools.

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Anonymous wrote:LMAO this is such a cope from the OP. Couldn’t be further from the truth.

Tell me you’ve never south of the MD line or west of the Mississippi.

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Anonymous wrote:I feel like most of these posts were written by AI who gleaned their knowledge of the world exclusively through reality TV shows. The makeup of all schools is intentionally heterogeneous, rich/successful/"c-suite" (gah) people are not a monolithic population - all espousing the same beliefs, living the same minds of lives, wearing the same brands, voting for the same politicians.

This is an immature crap thread.

This began as a thread arguing rich southerners don’t care that their kids go to party schools like Bama.

Which is true.

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Anonymous wrote:Not really understanding the definition of "truly affluent".

If you look at where the children of the Top 100 richest American families attend, it is certainly clustered in Top 20 colleges. More so among the families where the person actually was the one to get themselves into the Top 100 (think Bill Gates or Stephen Schwartzman from Blackstone) vs. people in this group that inherited the wealth (think of the Waltons from Wal Mart).

I guess I just don't understand the premise.

I think she just means families with net worth in high millions (100+) as opposed to only 10M or so as we see often here.
There are more families like that than just the household names that you mentioned

Maybe, except I doubt sports hosts fall into the $100MM+ category. Maybe OP means HNW professional athletes? Their children tend to also be great athletes as well, so of course makes sense they are attending an SEC powerhouse or equivalent...but they are not blase about that...just their Top 20 would be based on the sport vs. USNews Top 20 academic rankings.

I took OP’s statement to mean owners of professional sports teams. These families are definitely high net worth and their kids are more likely go to the schools OP referenced than an Ivy.

Definitely not correct at all…children and grandchildren going to lots of different schools but just as many Harvards, Williams and NYUs as SEC or equivalent schools.

Yep. Depends on where the family is. Steinbrenner’s son and Robert Kraft’s son went to Williams. Rooney Mara went to nyu. Jerry Jones kids went to Arkansas bc that’s where they are from.

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Anonymous wrote:Not really understanding the definition of "truly affluent".

If you look at where the children of the Top 100 richest American families attend, it is certainly clustered in Top 20 colleges. More so among the families where the person actually was the one to get themselves into the Top 100 (think Bill Gates or Stephen Schwartzman from Blackstone) vs. people in this group that inherited the wealth (think of the Waltons from Wal Mart).

I guess I just don't understand the premise.

I think she just means families with net worth in high millions (100+) as opposed to only 10M or so as we see often here.
There are more families like that than just the household names that you mentioned

Maybe, except I doubt sports hosts fall into the $100MM+ category. Maybe OP means HNW professional athletes? Their children tend to also be great athletes as well, so of course makes sense they are attending an SEC powerhouse or equivalent...but they are not blase about that...just their Top 20 would be based on the sport vs. USNews Top 20 academic rankings.

I took OP’s statement to mean owners of professional sports teams. These families are definitely high net worth and their kids are more likely go to the schools OP referenced than an Ivy.

Definitely not correct at all…children and grandchildren going to lots of different schools but just as many Harvards, Williams and NYUs as SEC or equivalent schools.

Yep. Depends on where the family is. Steinbrenner’s son and Robert Kraft’s son went to Williams. Rooney Mara went to nyu. Jerry Jones kids went to Arkansas bc that’s where they are from.

Jeanie Buss went to USC since the family is from LA. A lot of these owners’ kids go to school close to home bc they work in the family businesses while attending school

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Anonymous wrote:Talking about kids of big sports hosts or F500 C-suite execs who live in the Midwest & South, and so on. Their kids are poised and gorgeous, go to University of Alabama or LSU, join top sororities and fraternities and have a relaxed demeanor. They’re so much fun to be around, unlike uptight DC policy schlubs. That is all.

Well, duh. Those kids will be living off trust funds. They don’t have to work.

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Anonymous wrote:You cannot buy or earn you way into social acceptance in Richmond, Charleston, etc.

Who would want to??

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Anonymous wrote:Also those are not the 'truly affluent'.

+1 can you imagine the ‘truly affluent’ sending their kid to Alabama. Op, the ‘truly affluent’ have very likely never been within 1,000 miles of Alabama

Yes. Newsflash: There are truly affluent people in the South attending 'Bama, Ole Miss, Auburn, Clemson, etc.

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Anonymous wrote:Also those are not the 'truly affluent'.

+1 can you imagine the ‘truly affluent’ sending their kid to Alabama. Op, the ‘truly affluent’ have very likely never been within 1,000 miles of Alabama

Morning Joe host’s kid(s) went to Bama, Tucker’s kids went to UVA, Hannity’s kid went to Michigan

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Not really understanding the definition of "truly affluent".

If you look at where the children of the Top 100 richest American families attend, it is certainly clustered in Top 20 colleges. More so among the families where the person actually was the one to get themselves into the Top 100 (think Bill Gates or Stephen Schwartzman from Blackstone) vs. people in this group that inherited the wealth (think of the Waltons from Wal Mart).

I guess I just don't understand the premise.

I think she just means families with net worth in high millions (100+) as opposed to only 10M or so as we see often here.
There are more families like that than just the household names that you mentioned

Maybe, except I doubt sports hosts fall into the $100MM+ category. Maybe OP means HNW professional athletes? Their children tend to also be great athletes as well, so of course makes sense they are attending an SEC powerhouse or equivalent...but they are not blase about that...just their Top 20 would be based on the sport vs. USNews Top 20 academic rankings.

I took OP’s statement to mean owners of professional sports teams. These families are definitely high net worth and their kids are more likely go to the schools OP referenced than an Ivy.

Definitely not correct at all…children and grandchildren going to lots of different schools but just as many Harvards, Williams and NYUs as SEC or equivalent schools.

Yep. Depends on where the family is. Steinbrenner’s son and Robert Kraft’s son went to Williams. Rooney Mara went to nyu. Jerry Jones kids went to Arkansas bc that’s where they are from.

Pretty sure Jerry Jones’s bastard daughter was a Range Rover driving sorority girl at SMU.

[Anonymous]

Big deal.

Lori Loughlin‘s kids went to USC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You should watch the "Born Rich" documentary, made by Jamie Johnson (of J&J fortune). A classic.

I knew one of the subjects quite well and it was an accurate depiction.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:You should watch the "Born Rich" documentary, made by Jamie Johnson (of J&J fortune). A classic.

I knew one of the subjects quite well and it was an accurate depiction.

Which one??

[Anonymous]

I love a good nonsensical sweeping generalization. You must watch a lotta FOX.

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For the very rich, it doesn't really matter where they go to school.

They don't have to work. It's a different mentality. It's about experiences. And Alabama seems more interesting then grinding at Georgia Tech or similar.

You'll notice that among all the famous offspring of the rich and famous, absolutely no one goes to MIT or Caltech. These children are grifters, living off their parents names. Parasites. The academic experience doesn't matter. Fun and connections is what it's about.