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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Many get jobs due to connections, not due to academics or college name. I know many who couldn't get into a local state school and did community college to become eligible for transfer and then got hired by top companies where their dad or uncle worked.[/quote]

For most that attend Ivy's, they would have had the same connections if they went anywhere---their connections are often from their rich parents/family members.  Only the lower income students who attend Ivy's really get any "connection benefit" from attending a top school.  The rich kids already have those connections
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A lower income kid (including upper middle class DMV kids from donut hole families) is not going to network with rich kids. The rich kids know each other and stick to each other. A lower income kid would have to be extremely pushy to break into that crowd. Even then, it’s probably a mistake. Lower income kid will be shut out of a lot of things that the rich kids do because the lower income kid simply can’t afford them.[/quote]

I went to Harvard as a kid of immigrant parents, generic UMC but not rich. Totally disagree that all the rich kids just stick together or whatever. Everyone lives in the dorms, everyone is on the unlimited meal plan etc. Freshman roommate assignments are given by the school. There's a range of people and friends/activities felt really mixed.[/quote]

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