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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We live in a really wealthy area and it’s surprisingly not that competitive about  college admissions. Top ranked public school, average house now over 2.5m in our district and people just want their kids to get into state schools. A small handful go on to more prestigious universities but for the most part people go to middle of the road schools and don’t stress about it. Top 5 % kids go to Georgia or Michigan. Duke and UCLA would be considered elite. [/quote]

People with generational wealth don't really care that much about college pedigrees. Most often, it's because they themselves are the beneficiaries of generational wealth. They didn't have to do anything, so why should their kids and grandkids have to do hard things?

I used to live in Pebble Beach. The genuine wealth - it's family money. It's not earned. No one worked hard for it. And the wealth continues to grow because they have professionals taking care of it. And in that world, SMU and TCU are elite. [/quote]

Nobody in Pebble Beach even gives one second of thought to SMU or TCU.  You need better examples…because those are terrible.

There are plenty with multiple generations attending Stanford.[/quote]

Oh good lord. None of those Pebble Beach kids are getting into Stanford.

And we are a multigenerational Stanford family .

You don't want to go there regardless in 2024. [/quote]

Regardless…nobody from Pebble Beach is sending their kids to TCU or SMU.  Those are idiotic examples.[/quote]

Well, you're wrong. Those are very much the mediocre rich kid schools today. SMU and TCU are where it's at.

These kids are not getting into Ivy, Duke, Stanford, Rice, MIT, Chicago, Vanderbilt or any UC.

They are genuine dumbasses.

Trust me.

SMU and TCU are where it's at for the elite dumbasses. 
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First…there are only 3600 people that live in Pebble Beach…how many 18 year olds per year in total are there?  50…maybe?  Probably less.

Rich average kids from CA don’t go to TCU or SMU…they go to Chapman or LMU or USD or schools where rich kids from CA go.
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Eh, TCU and SMU are definitely a rich kid thing in CA now.

Pebble Beach is more than a technicality. There's Carmel, Carmel Valley, Pebble Beach, Pacific Grove, Monterey. 
 
The talent is much better elsewhere. It's lazy wealth on the peninsula. [/quote]

Show me anything to back this up.

Again, TCU isn’t popular really anywhere outside of Texas.

Your just repeating baseless nonsense doesn’t make it true.[/quote]

I live in the Pacific NW. TCU is very popular in our fancy neighborhood among the white, sporty-but-not-doing-a-college-sport, ok grades and rich-kid set. Our swim club and beach club parking lots both have new iterations of multiple cars every summer with horned frog and TCU stickers. I notice because I lived outside Fort Worth for years and it’s weird to see so many TCU kids in such a different part of the country.

I’ve never heard of a kid from up here going to SMU, though. [/quote]

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