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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not every private school kid is entitled or rich. [/quote]

The ones that land at Colgate definitely are.[/quote]

Looking forward to you not supporting that at all. The moon is made of cheese. [/quote]

Not the PP, but Colgate is unusually high in terms of drawing from wealthy families compared to other private liberal arts colleges (their connections may be a large part of why they succeed in business/finance etc. which depend on connections).

From the NYTimes Upshot analysis:
22.6% of Colgate families come from the wealthiest 1% (i.e. earning more than 630K/yr) and nearly 3% of those are in the .1% and only 13.6% come from the 60% or under family income bracket (65k or lower).  This puts them at number 7 in the country of all colleges and universities in terms of its tilt towards very high income families.  The [b]median[/b] family income is 270200 (since it's median it's not inflated like an average would be by a few high numbers).  As for outcomes, less than 1% of Colgate grads came from a poor family but became a rich adult.  
This doesn't mean the school is full of entitled kids, but it is disproportionately compared to other national liberal arts colleges full of rich kids. And there's not a ton of social mobility for you from the school if you enter lower middle class/poor as there is at other schools.

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