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So called 'connections' is BS for the most part for normal middle class folks.[/quote]
This is DC's experience at Bowdoin. All her friends are solidly middle class down to low income, but there's whole swaths of CEO daughters and trust fund kids who latch to each other throughout the four years and are very careful with who they get close with. There's also clear class distinction between those who went to Philips Academies and Grotons, so you really go to these places to take the resources from the institution, unless you're wealthy and your friend, whose dad is CEO of Boeing, can get you an in.[/quote]

One of my kids went to Grinnell and didn't see this at all. There were extremely wealthy kids and kids from dirt poor families and everything in between. Everybody seemed to mingle. The one exception was some of the international students who were not completely fluent in English stuck together in first year, but they branched out more as their English improved. [/quote]

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