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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I know this group well. This is where their kids go:
W&L
Bucknell
Colorado College
Wake Forest
Trinity
Middlebury
Hamilton
Bowdoin
Duke and Dartmouth if legacies[/quote]

You are missing a few schools but this is a pretty good list.

What people should be asking themselves it "what do the wealthy and connected in the Finance, PE, Big Law crowd know that we don't" given that they send their kids to SLACs? I know of a friend group at one of those schools where the families are Tech Exec, PE, PE, IB, Big Law, Big Law, CEO, CFO, CRO. No generational wealth but a lot of wealth. [/quote]

I used to teach at one of the less-competitive schools on this list.  The answer to PP's question is that wealthy parents will spend the money to pay full tuition get their kid lots of hand-holding and attention at a SLAC, because that's the difference between a borderline kid failing out and graduating with a solid B average; or a good-but-not-great kid getting Bs v graduating magna cum laude.  The smartest kids from these families still go to HYSP.  [/quote]

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