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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you're talking about socially elite, and you certainly should be, then the only schools that matter are.....

Princeton
Willians/Amherst
Harvard
Dartmouth
Bowdoin/Midd
Wellesley/Wesleyan

The rest are vulgar, jumped up, pre-professional diploma mills.[/quote]

Take out Williams, Amherst, Bowdoin (?), Middlebury (?!), Wellesley, Wesleyan ( :lol: ) and add in Yale, Columbia, Stanford, MIT, Penn, Chicago, Northwestern, Duke, Cornell, Brown, Dartmouth and then we're talking.

I'm sorry my poor child but absolutely no one is looking at a Bowdoin or a Middlebury degree and thinking, "Ah, yes, socially elite."[/quote]

Dear, you either know or you don't.[/quote]

DP - if you really think you're going to convince people on an anonymous internet board that schools like Bowdoin or Middlebury are elite, you've got a long, uphill battle ahead of you. The kids that attend those schools might be bright, but they're not elite. Trust me.[/quote]

They are "socially elite" apparently.[/quote]

They're not. If you send your child to somewhere like Middlebury expecting them to be treated as "socially elite" in life, you've put your money on the wrong horse. I went to Andover, matriculated to an Ivy, and most of my social circle (for better or worse) attended schools within the Ivy/Ivy Plus range. While Williams and Amherst will get some respect, and while most would readily acknowledge that kids at many LACs are bright and curious individuals, no one would label those schools as "socially elite", at least not moreso than the top 10-or-so universities that have long been favored by the upper-middle classes in America.[/quote]

Being in the upper middle class does not make you socially elite.

Going to Harvard does not make you socially elite.

I'm not quite sure what the socially elite are. If talking about, say, NYC super wealthy society set with charity balls and Hamptons summers and jetsetting just for a birthday extravaganza, I have some unpleasant news for you regarding where most of them went to college. It's all over the place. [b]Going to Harvard over, say, Kenyon is meaningless within this world.[/b] Harvard is nice! But that's all there is to it. Same thing with children of billionaires. All over the place. They have their quotas at the Ivies along with places like USC as schools want their alum dollars but it does diddly squat for the rest of the student body.

Then we do have "brain trust" people, heads of policy institutions and think tanks and who rotate in and out of cabinet positions and special advisor roles and prominent department chairs at Harvard or Princeton, yeah, I can see how a certain handful of colleges really do dominate in this environment. But are they the same as socially elite? Maybe, maybe not.

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Nonsense.[/quote]

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