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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The richest people I know don’t send their kids to “big 3” or similarly recognizable schools. Idk why, and I was surprised by it. [/quote]

Many ultra-wealthy people don't care about the brand of high school their kid attends. You'll find the most desperate brand-chasers among the upper-middle class, people who are on the periphery of elite status, but not quite there.

When you live in a $8 million mansion, it doesn't matter where your kid goes to school. They're set.

The richest family I know (worth over $100 million) was heavily sought after by every top school in DC and chose Landon because they liked the campus environment and culture. [/quote]

Spot on. There's a level of generational wealth where it really doesn't matter where you go to school. The same thing applies to college. These kids are not grinding at St. Albans or NCS and gunning for Yale or MIT. They're very happy to go to Miami or an SEC school because it's fun. Studying hard is for the proletariat and people that go into the trades.[/quote]

It is true that generational wealth allows families to find a fit and not worry about prestige....but to say they aren't at Big 3 or Ivy bound in naive.  These kids do attend Big 3 schools and boarding schools with prestige, and sometimes they are getting high GPAs...but because of their connections, sometimes they aren't grinding it out in the hardest classes....and yet they still go to Ivy league schools because of wealth and connections. [/quote]

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