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I lived in NYC and having a degree from a prestigious school helped me get a job in investment banking. Ultimately I hated it and I'm a stay at home mom now but I met my husband though work. That wouldn't have happened if I had gone to  a different school.
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see, told you so, the perks are better than the membership[/quote]

All this investment banking spam seems like trolls. Nobody outside of NJ/NY/CT is this obsessed with banking. :roll:

If PP was genuine, and assuming PP was moderately attractive, she would have just as easily met a rich husband after being a state school sorority girl or attending some half-decent liberal arts college like Trinity or Hobart and William Smith.[/quote]

Look up assortative mating.[b] Rich boys used to marry the pretty girl from the country club back home[/b]. Now they may someone with similar education and career background to themselves. Think JFK and Jackie vs. the Obamas or even the Kushners. Assortative mating explains at least 40% of how the world works differently now compared to the recent past.[/quote]

They still do, it's just that she usually has the same kind of education he does. How many wealthy women whose parents are the country club type don't go to college these days?[/quote]

They don't necessarily marry the one from exactly back home though. And these days, mixed marriages are much more common. WASP/Jewish (the Kushners), Jewish/Chinese (the Zuckerbergs) etc.[/quote]

But that’s the point.  The Chan-Zuckerbergs have completely different backgrounds but met at Harvard their freshman year.   And the Kushners both attended Ivies (albeit not the same one) where they probably ran in the same circles of rich NyC scions. [/quote]

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