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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You are surprised that people with money marry people with money?[/quote]
+1. Is this really the first time you've noticed this, OP? [/quote]

None of my public school sorority sisters grew up deprived. Public or prep high school, all of us were more or less from the same cluster of affluent towns. Of course if you force me to think, I guess I understand the richest tend to marry rich, but I've never seen such a close controlled data set where it's literally 100% of the private/prep school women married well and it's so hit and miss with their prettier public school peers. I was shocked last night as I was clicking through Facebook friends, so I thought I'd share. I did not know this was so obvious and common.[/quote]

It is the same in France/ Paris where I am from. You think you are part of the same network in undergrad/ grad school but in reality you are not, there is this parallel network of earlier private school connection, or In our case “rally” which connects young people of selected upper class families who host Saturday evening parties for their kids (starts as young teens).

So for ex, I went to a fancy public high school where I met a lot of upper class people (I was on a merit transfer inbound from my poorer neighborhood), I did get a lot of friends there but I was not part of any “rally”, so I never got really friend with the upper crust. Same later in the fancy undergrad I went too, an equivalent of Ivy League, lots of my friends were UMC or very wealthy, but they had that parallel network outside of our college connection. And looking at who married who, even if we are one happy group of friends and dated each other, we end up married to people from same backgrounds.. I married my brilliant and successful husband who is like me the child of public school teachers, and our friends from upper crust backgrounds married each other.. and this had nothing to do with who was good looking, who was charismatic etc.. [/quote]

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