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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The problem with QB and colleges with low income kids is nobody gives them a crash course in social dynamics when you throw $65k kids into a pool where the majority are wealthy and super wealthy.

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First, it looks as if Quon is probably a quirky, thriving Princeton student who’s had problems with other kids getting tired of his quirkiness. He’s not a monster, and they’re not necessarily monsters, but quirkiness is simply a challenging part of life, like being fat or being very short.

Second, a lot of aggressive QB-type kids have been swimming with the rich sharks since they were babies. They know everything about the rich sharks. I don’t think the aggressive, sophisticated QB kids have any more trouble relating to rich snobs than sheltered rich softies do.

Third, I think what the more sheltered QB kids might not understand, and what the rich snobs don’t understand, is that rude snobbery is a symptom of dysfunction. Figuring out how to keep rich snobs from hurting you is as important as figuring out how to keep psychopaths from killing you, but there’s no more reason to envy rich snobs than to envy psychopaths.

QB kids are talented go-getters who can achieve anything.

Many, if not most, rich kids try hard to act like normal people. They may have only a vague idea that they’re especially rich. They might have cars and nice clothes, but they aren’t driving ultra-fancy cars or wearing designer clothes all day. They understand that they’ve had advantages that poor kids haven’t had. They admire the grit and talent of the poor kids who are sitting in college with them.

The rich college kids who act like rude jerks suffer from parental neglect, poor parenting, personality disorders, or some combination of those three things. They have poor chances of survival outside of their protected bubbles. They’re like dumb, lazy, captive lobsters being kept alive so that the QB kids have something fresh to eat.

And that’s the point of how Princeton works. The rich kids get four fun years of partying. The Quons get to learn about the rich kids and figure out how to take them down. [/quote]

You sound like a sociopath who doesn’t get that not everyone is a sociopath.

As a former scholarship student surrounded by rich kids who is now rich myself and sending a kid to college, I disagree with almost all of this. I didn’t know that many rich “snobs,” and I knew just as many poor kids screwed up by bad parenting as rich kids. What I did know is a bunch of rich kids who almost all had no clue how privileged they were. Some of the Quons may learn to take down the kids from “the bubble,” but it doesn’t sound like that’s where Quon is (because he’s not a sociopath) and the bubble doesn’t go away after college, anyway. The rich kids will still have their money to protect them and parents to get their foot in the door at internships and first jobs. I did learn to fit in with the rich at college and it does partially contribute to my success.

The only part I agree with is that the poor kid can have more ambition and drive, because they have to to get where they are. Not necessarily, though. I know Billionaire heirs who have an enormous amount of drive (probably because they want to show they deserve it).

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