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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's not fun being the poor kid at a rich school.  Can he join his dormmates to fancy restaurants a few days a week and blow $500, or $5000, on a saturday night out without breaking a sweat?  Will girls be interested if he cannot?  Will he have the poor car that cannot be parked in front of the frat house?  Will the frat ask what his father's occupation is during rush week, will it be good enough? [/quote]

This is definately something to consider.  It's more challenging to find friends when you simply don't have any extra spending $$ in college and 60-75%+ around you are full pay, and have an open ended Credit card/cash flow to do whatever they want.

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exactly.  and these kids talk about who is "poor," meaning middle class, laugh about it, laugh at cars that are like toyotas or fords, girls won't want to ride in one, they expect very nice jewelry gifts regularly.  It's so much.  Just forget it unless you are rich. [/quote]

What?! This is not the mean girl movie. My UMC DS is not getting a car in college unless of course he can make money and buy himself. It is college; the whole point is to learn how to be an independent adult.[/quote]

Rich kids don't have to be independent, and some will never work, they have funds already, some have multiple cars at school, they call buy cars on their credit cards by phone on a whim, some have 1+ homes at school (for them, not the parents), maybe a runway for a plane too.  Maybe privates in more rural settings are different, but mine was in a major metro area.[/quote]
The Ivies have some of the highest First Gen/poor kids due to anyone under $200k going for free.  It's not the 1980s. My kid is at an Ivy and it's very welcoming and collaborative and all of the kids are highly motivated--though kid is at one that is known to be low on the 'douche' factor.[/quote]

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