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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It seems that the kids I know going to T-10 schools and are majoring in things like philosophy or sociology are from families that are in big law, IB, or medicine. They also have generational wealth from grandparents. We are first generation college grads with no parental help but worked our way up to UMC with no advice or mentoring. Our kids did well enough to get merit at some private universities but ultimately chose the state flagship to save money. They also pursued majors that led to high paying fields upon graduation. But are people like us short-changing our kids in not providing them with a liberal arts education at an elite school so they can join the rarefied alumni clubs and networking opportunities that lead to the truly big bucks?[/quote]

Cringe. If you're not from that pedigreed background K-12, or at least 9th-12th (boarding or upper end day school), your kids were never entering that rarefied orbit in college. Rich kids see right through the interlopers and pretenders. They are magnets to each other and tend to box out the unwashed. That's not to say your kid wouldn't have hung out with rich kids, but s/he will very likely hang out with some rich kids at their state university. Let me know how many rich kids still hang out with your middle class kid after everyone graduates. Let me know when a rich kid puts a ring on your middle class daughter's finger. Can it happen? Sure. Is it likely? Not at all. And your mere interest in this is of course desperate, creepy and weird, so why wouldn't you expect rich kids to be sketched out by your status-climbing low born offspring? Exactly.[/quote]

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