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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I went to Case and it's a very STEM (specifically engineering) heavy school.

Private high schools don't send many kids to study engineering (at any college) because of the salaries. My kids attend a well-regarded private and the wealthy by-in-large have kids who go into finance or law. Engineering is viewed as a stable but middle to upper middle class career. Sure, some engineers combine their scientific knowledge with business (or law) and make a ton of money but most do not.

It's been interesting to observe all of this as someone who did not grow up with any sort of money. [/quote]

Case is mainly regarded as a premed school.

Not so much on the engineering side.[/quote]

When I was there it seemed heavily engineering.  This was 30 years ago.

Regardless, the same thinking applies.  Medicine is increasingly seen as a middle class to upper middle class profession as well.  
If you go to Sidwell or Dalton or Andover there are very few parents who are physicians.  The average physician in the US makes like $300K. 
That is bottom 10% of the non-aid kids at Sidwell and pretty much poverty wages at Dalton.  :roll:

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Most wealthy kids are not smart enough to be engineers. My experience with the children of wealth is they aren’t very strong in math and science. They also are not motivated to have a hard major. Finance is ridiculously easy “math.” Wealthy children want jobs that sound 1% but aren’t hard.
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