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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The overwhelming majority of parents at our private school, members of our country club, neighbors who live in $2M+ houses, executives at DH’s or my companies, did not attend any of the schools in OP’s post.  However, someone on my team graduated from Harvard and makes $175k 15 years out of school, which is nice, but achievable from pretty much any school.

I will never get the obsession of people like OP.  No one I know IRL cares this much about where their kids go.  I’m guessing OP is the first gen in her family to achieve UMC and hasn’t been exposed to enough wealthy people to see the millions of paths to success that don’t involve a “Tier 1” school.[/quote]

That may all be true but I bet the people you know from your neighborhood etc still want their kids to go to prestigious schools [/quote]
Very true. I only know one set of wealthy parents (not just high income) who really don't care where there kids go. I also know 5+ sets who are upset that one of both of their alma maters don't recognize a legacy admissions advantage (degrees from MIT, Amherst, and Hopkins). In my experience with older family in the Congressional CC crowd, wealthy people care about status more than money. Having a kid who went to Harvard or Stanford or even a group like Duke, Georgetown, Swarthmore, or Williams matters more than having a kid who is making bank at some huge hedge fund or tech company. The relative of a hedge fund manager might very well even try to hide or not mention what the person really does.[/quote]

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