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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why don't people already realize this? People don't become friends just because you all go to and pay admission at the same school. There are tons of cliques and by college age people are out of their elements so they gravitate to who/what they know. So that means people in the same circles of expensive private school, people from same city/town/neighborhood, same social class, etc. Who do you know? and the name game are very popular ice-breakers in college right after where are you from?[/quote]

I wonder if the way roommates are chosen has changed the degree of intermingling over the past few decades. When I went to school, most people accepted their random roommate assignment, and so halls or suites were truly mixed and people’s first groups friends were more economically diverse. (As time went on, they might start to gravitate more to people like themselves.)

Now it seems kids choose roommates from similar backgrounds on Instagram or whatever, so it’s assumed you’ll be surrounded by people just like you from the get go.[/quote]

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