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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, I grew up on one of the nicest South Jersey shore towns, probably very close to where you are spending the summer, and I still have family there.  I know exactly the kind of people you see around you, and here’s the thing:  your sample is skewed.  There are rich people everywhere and who send their kids to every school, and what you’re seeing are the rich people from Philly who went to and are sending their kids to Big Five schools.  Not everyone who goes to those schools ends up as rich as the ones you are seeing.  Not everyone from Philly has a house at the shore either.

There are plenty of rich people in the DC area who didn’t go to top 20 colleges either.

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I grew up near there and there were parents obsessed with T20 schools back in the 80s. Granted it was much easier to get it back then, but it was a given that some kids were going to attend certain schools. We had a bunch head to Ivy League schools.

Many of my NY/Boston friends have an even more intense attitude to college.

The DC area is just like other affluent areas around the US. 
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