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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not overtly, but depending on the school this can happen. [b]At Duke, many of the Greek houses could approximate your wealth/status by asking what high school you attended and your family's neighborhood. [/b]

The wealthy Greenwich, Manhattan, Bay Area kids could sniff each other out easily and quickly formed social circles.[/quote]

This isn't just Duke. It's all private T20. And it's done through Greek houses and just in first-year orientation.

It's how they network over the summer through social media and find each other. All the private school kids - from across the nation - all know each other before they get to campus.

As a private HS parent, I personally thought it was frightening and left little spontaneity. Lots of preconceived notions about people (scrolling social media, who your "commons" are, etc.). Social media has ruined the spontaneity of the first-year experience.[/quote]

I've been dismayed to see this too. And we started paying more attention to how schools are doing roommate assignments on our tours after hearing about this. It actually seems like a lot of the schools our DD is interested in (Brown, Dartmouth, Midd, Tufts, Carleton) assign freshman roommates based on a questionnaire, so there is no Instagram "shopping." I'm sure there is self-sorting that happens later regardless, but schools that do not allow self-selection of frosh roommate have earned extra points in our book. [/quote]

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