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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]These articles focus on career “success” and not money “success”.

The insurance policy is that the graduates have rich friends and/or marry someone rich. How many parents on this board earned their 1% vs married their 1%? I am semi-successful professsionally from a meh-private college; my money comes from my husband’s family, not my career.[/quote]

Sure if your only goal for your kids is that they enter the 1% and marry rich - you should sweat getting them into Princeton. I don’t think that is the only goal most parents have for their kids. Maybe I am wrong. [/quote]

It isn’t marrying rich for me. It’s being around the right cohort. It matters in the long run.[/quote]

Can you give me an example of how it matters, that you cannot find at another school, that is not related to making money?

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I see this in action with my siblings. They all went to large flagship schools and I went to private T10. They do not have friends in the same social class that we do. I’m sorry to be so blunt. Their friends are not as successful.

My siblings have great well paying jobs (due to grad degrees) but just don’t have access to the networks that we do. Could they create that or find it themselves through things like YPO and private clubs? Yes absolutely. But it is much much harder. They complain about it nonstop. I’ve posted about this before, but it’s probably been some time.[/quote]

This is absurd.  My husband and I went to state honors programs.  Our college friends are all highly successful and indistinguishable from our DC professional, neighborhood, country club and 55K private school friends.

To echo a pervious poster, unless your aim is working at Goldman Sachs directly out of undergrad you can find as much network as you need at any top100 (or even below) college and then you will build your network via your professional career and social life.   How much college "network" does any one person need? Answer: not much. [/quote]

We have the GS/PE/HF type of jobs. That’s our circle.

Listen, your experiences may differ.

There’s no one right way, but I’ve seen firsthand. There is a large cohort difference .[/quote]

I regret to inform you, likely to your great dismay, that there are many people from state colleges in those circles.[/quote]

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