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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]

Kids are at different ivies, and this is not true. Many different income level kids hang out together. It is more based on interest or EC(arts groups, E-groups) than income. However these schools have 55-60% on need based aid and 75% have campus jobs(more than half are paid research with professors or paid undergrad TA jobs though: ie coveted positions that fullpays want too, for the resume building). There are many free or heavily discounted campus activities for students, not being able to pay is not the barrier it was when I was a FGLI at one of these ivies 28 yr ago). Friends from the rich private K-12 who attend SMU, W&L, Colby, even UVA mention much more class-sorting than my kids see at the ivies or their friends at JHU, Chicago see. Top schools have the least social stratification based on income. This is not the 1970s to mid80s  when the ivies were 90% rich. [/quote]

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