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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Agree, HM wealth is ridiculous

What do you all think of Collegiate?[/quote]

How can you tell how wealthy a school’s parents are on average?  In our case, we do well but no one would know from just meeting us.[/quote]

The truth is you can’t. You never really know who has family money / family help / generational assistance.

We send DC to one of the TT mentioned here and are low key. There’s only a parent pecking order if you choose to make that something you care about. Most parents are just trying to juggle work and kids. [/quote]

The truth is you can, but you have to know where to look and be familiar with the culture otherwise your experience will be at the surface layer. [/quote]

PP here. To clarify then - we just don’t care. Kid is at the school to receive a fantastic education. Why give a crap about whether we are part of that crowd?

I’ve found that our school does not force parents to socialize so it doesn’t matter that much. [/quote]
Would you care to share the school? We’d be happy in that kind of evirinmebt as well.[/quote]

This will vary by class year as well.

But most of these classes will have 60 to 100 plus parent couples. In no way are they all homogenous.

Just find your crowd or don’t bother socializing amongst the at all.

As a TT legacy myself I’ve realized that some of the social scene is really dictated by parents who are newer to New York. Talking about where you live and where you vacation does not mean you’re better lol. It’s kind of off putting actually.

Personally we could care less but that’s a mindset we’ve always had.

Also there are plenty of parents I’ve met who are clearly quite well to do but also humble. We look for shared values with fellow parents in the community.

Interestingly a bunch of the parent legacies in the class are also quite low key, probably from having spent decades in nyc.

People care far less about you than you realize so why play the game? [/quote]

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