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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I went to Dartmouth and am friends with people whose kids recently went to or are currently attending Dartmouth.  As the PP noted above, Dartmouth is not a place where wealth is obvious.  Everyone lives in dorms and dresses very casually and the vast majority of students don't have cars.  When I was there, I had no idea who had money and who did not, except for the one time when a hallmate was lamenting out loud that she had to fly coach for the first time because all first-class tickets to head home were sold out.[/quote]

When you were there, how small were the classes?

Happy to know kids just wear casual clothes.[/quote]

It's the Southern sorority culture and the Ole Miss and Auburn, etc schools where they wear ridiculously expensive brands and material obsessed.  Ivies and New England in general are more 'stealth wealth'. Not flaunting it in your face. In fact, they take pride in not doing that.[/quote]

Old timey thinking. Have you seen a Colby student lately? It's Ole Miss level status indicators. [/quote]

Agree.  NESCACs now are rich kids flaunting rich indicators, no longer kids maxing out with LLBean and driving the hand me down volvo to college.  [/quote]

How so? (I am a New Englander so kind of surprised to hear!)[/quote]

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