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[quote=Anonymous]I have 2 kids at Ivies. We are upper middle class/upper class professionals: nice house, vacation internationally yearly, kids went to a top private school but high school only.
My older child (college junior) hangs out with a mix of normal people: incomes likes ours, some above us, some on aid. I doubt their own life trajectory will ever be impacted by going to a school with an outsized percentage of the 0.1%.

My younger child has always been very charismatic and outgoing and has fallen into the boarding school, NYC, multi-millionaire and billionaire crowd at their school. The kids have friends outside this group but the core friend group is this demographic (plus my son and one or two others like him) and they are a pretty tight pack. The wealth is absurd. My child grew up with enough money to relate to their life experiences and to hang in the present day, largely within the confines of college, but his friends' families' money is thousands of times what we have. The kids are all very smart, funny, quick-witted. I have no idea if these relationships will impact his career prospects or life direction or if they will even last into adulthood. At this point (end of freshman year) his friends have all walked into top NYC, Boston, Bay area summer internships and he will be working a normal job. 
Frankly this dynamic makes me uncomfortable. It feels very "Talented Mr. Ripley."  [/quote]

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