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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you attend an Ivy school, you need to think strategically and make "connections" that you can use after graduation and later in life.   The joke is on you if you can't. [/quote]

False. None of my wealth has anything to do with personal "connections" from my ivy friends or peers: all of it has to do with my school's name being a leg up in the Top-professional-school admissions and me being a great test taker, as were most of my peers. A huge percent of us got into top professional schools and hence had access to top careers within the field. Quickly looking at a list of the top 10 donors who gave the most at our25th reunion, only 3 have generational wealth. The rest were a mix of very low to upper middle class students who went to top law or med school and some who started businesses(catering, bakery, decently famous nonprofit), commonly after few years doing high paying wall street jobs. 5 of the 10 had financial aid back then, when only 30% of the students received it at the time. [/quote]

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