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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]These articles focus on career “success” and not money “success”.

The insurance policy is that the graduates have rich friends and/or marry someone rich. How many parents on this board earned their 1% vs married their 1%? I am semi-successful professsionally from a meh-private college; my money comes from my husband’s family, not my career.[/quote]

Both former low-income, heavily aided students who met at an ivy, went to med school at a different but top school, and earn top2%. Most of our adult friends are in medicine or law. About half came from no money and did not marry into significant (top-5%)money. We are younger than the ave college parents, just turned 50, college '97. Our friends are all similar. In fact the smartest two from '97 are a top lawyer and a research MD-phD.about 40% of my ivy was on need-based aid when I attended now it is 55%. parents on dcum who went to college in the 80s have a very different understanding of college compared to people from the late 90s. The legacy friends in my adult involved alum group are predominantly new to the top incomes, and were not legacies ourselves. My ivy absolutely changed my trajectory and it continues to do the same for a larger and larger portion of the undergraduate population. [/quote]

What kind of high school did you attend?  How did you do well enough at an Ivy to get into Med school? I was low income and loads of aid at an Ivy from a rinky dink rural high school same time as you and my grades were crushed. High school had been no effort, we didn’t even have final exams, no APs, so when I got into college i struggled. Did you come from a high cost of living region, I thought making $50k out of college was “making it” — and didn’t understand the poor career choices I was making following my “passion” and “idealism”. [/quote]

DP. I was the val at my large urban high school and I studied really hard after I got there. Went to office hours etc. I did not have anywhere near the background of half the school who came from private schools but I was smarter than many of them and was able to beat the means and graduate phi beta kappa. I also crushed the mcat with a 99%ile score though that was not terribly rare from this undergrad. I went to a “known” big name ivy for med. My main lab partners were also from public school, middle class, single parent and they went to T10 med schools, so did some private school kids. Anything is possible if you have the talent and put in the work. [/quote]

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