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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Most top colleges are like this. The richest students, across incomes, hang out with one another. The athletes, usually white outside of mainstream sports, hang out with one another. The Middle Class figure it out. The fgli hang out with the fgli.[/quote]

100% false. I have a full pay kid at Duke. They’re friends with kids who are fgli and lots of kids on financial aid, and some insanely uber-wealthy people(most of those try to hide it, to be fair). [/quote]

But are the fgli/FA kids friends with the wealthy students?[/quote]

Why would the wealthy kids and FGLI kdis be friends? Friendships are usually based on shared experiences. These two groups of kids have nothing in common! [/quote]

We have two students at Duke. They each have friends who are on financial aid and friends who are full pay, a subset of whom are very rich but do not discuss it(just known because of who the family is). The majority of students interact across socioeconomic lines. They did when I went there and my spouse went to an ivy and reports the same. Our kids have high school friends at ivies, uchicago, and they mix with many different people. It is far more diverse than it used to be, and less greek has also led to more mixing [/quote]

Now that I think about it, the greek system might have been a driving factor in SES segregation.[/quote]

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