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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The elite schools are basically a harry potter sorting hat for IB, Big Law etc.. and what they really are doing is creating a net work among the already rich/elite kids.  Middle class smart kids may get in but very few have the contacts and skills to net work themselves up that high.  The richer you are the less relevant your major needs to be[/quote]

I don’t know about finance but that’s not true for big law.  My spouse and I are both very very middle class kids who went to Ivy or similar colleges by working our butte off in HS and nailing the SAT (thank you Waldenbooks for that prep book!), getting great grades there and great lsat score to jump into the best law schools in the country then federal appellate clerkships.  Biglaw is filled with people like that.  The rich kids that aren’t working and just parlaying connections are not ending up at the top firms at least in DC.  They may do better in regional markets like Richmond if their families are regional power brokers.

I don’t work in finance but at least some of the very well off finance folks I know are children of immigrants who I don’t think come from elite backgrounds…just super smart who work their butts off.  The ricch family people I know are in commercial real estate or individual asset management.[/quote]

Myth of meritocracy so that we don’t change the system. Who bought you those sat books? Who encouraged you to apply to Ivy League colleges? Who paid for your tuition? The concept of the law school is very foreign to Europeans, who instead prefer the inns of court. This is because they recognize law schools for what they really are: bourgeoisie breeding grounds.
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