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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Over and over again I read about someone in the news whose career I admire, and with internet sleuthing I discover they went to private school.

This was about Will Gaybrick, CPO at Stripe, studied math at Harvard and was a student of STA.

https://www.stalbansschool.org/news-detail?pk=1270016

I went to an Ivy too, also in a hard science, but my career is cr@p, mostly because of following my passion coming out of college in an idealistic way.

I run into alums who have great careers and I see they went to independent schools; but hard to differentiate from that longer rigorous schooling, network effects of independent schools, and family wealth/connection?
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OP, I'd say that its not necessarily " wealth" of parents in terms of dollars, but that what is in play here is that all parents try to pass on their " life lessons" to the benefit of their offspring to pave the way for their " mini me" to take their life one step further in professional/ personal achievement . Now, perhaps an offspring won't be interested in that kind of help or perhaps their passion will lead them in a direction that a parent's connections cannot assist, but when career choice and parent connections align : presto- the outcome is often:

( just listing the kind of nepotism I have seen ):

* Parents are in the POUTS Cabinet or parent's BFF is in Cabinet- offspring is nominated for an under secretary of State position and is confirmed

* Parent is high up in DoS/ CIA- SIL gets tapped to run newly formed post- 9/11 Gov't agency

* High level DOJ Atty kid gets clerkship at SCOTUS

Its not the Private school that they went to, the kid was admitted to that Private because of the parents and then those parents continue to curate their offspring's career post- college

It's an aspect of inter-generational wealth. Now, again, a kid might be a dud or just want to be an artist ...[/quote]

Living in close-in Arlington we have all types of those parents in our public school system.  The Secretary of Education at the time had his kids at our public elementary school.  The Obama girls used to baby sit them.[/quote]

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