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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not in terms of jobs but in terms of money Musk (UPenn), Bezos (Princeton), Larry Ellison (dropout UIUC), zuck & gates (dropout Harvard), Page (UMich), Brin (UMaryland), Dell (dropout UTA), Ballmer (Harvard), Bloomberg (JHU) have all the bananas.[/quote]

Steve Jobs (dropout Reed College)
Mark Cuban (University of Pittsburgh college, Indiana University MBA)

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Jobs' kids attended Stanford and Harvard.  Cuban has a kid at Vanderbilt and a crew recruit daughter going to UCLA.
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What does it matter where the kids go? They are nepo babies now. Ofc they'll inherit privilege. It's the schools the parent went to (Mark Cuban) who made the wealth that matters.[/quote]

Because those same parents when wealthy want their kids to attend top schools...even though it doesn't matter at all where their kids attend college.

Also, as someone else rightly pointed out...it's like a 10-to-1 ratio of elite school grads to non-elite if you are looking at the wealthiest people.[/quote]

It's more that they can afford to attend elite schools. Also, the ones you are listing have smart kids.  Those kids are not Nepo kids just getting in on name alone.

Look at Gate's kids.  Oldest went to Stanford and onto a top medical school in NYC.  You don't get the 2nd part without being actually really smart.  Son went to Chicago and is also smart (just out of spotlight).  Those kids grew up with privilege but also had expectations to do well in school and forge a path for themselves in life.  Sure they have all the privileges and stuff paid for, but they wouldn't get that if they just wanted to sit back and do nothing.  [/quote]

Tons of people can afford to attend elite schools...and they do.

I guess I am not understanding whey it's perfectly fine for a billionaire's kid to attend an elite school...but it's a sign of "madness" for a BigLaw partner's kid (or equivalent millionaire family) to attend.[/quote]

It's not "madness".  But nobody's kid, IMO, should be caught up in the craziness of striving for Elite Schools while missing out on actual learning and developing as a person.  You can achieve a lot, strive to be the best but know that if you don't get into T20, you are likely going to a tT50 and that is excellent.  Don't stress about it. 
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