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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]These articles focus on career “success” and not money “success”.

The insurance policy is that the graduates have rich friends and/or marry someone rich. How many parents on this board earned their 1% vs married their 1%? I am semi-successful professsionally from a meh-private college; my money comes from my husband’s family, not my career.[/quote]

Sure if your only goal for your kids is that they enter the 1% and marry rich - you should sweat getting them into Princeton. I don’t think that is the only goal most parents have for their kids. Maybe I am wrong. [/quote]

It isn’t marrying rich for me. It’s being around the right cohort. It matters in the long run.[/quote]

If you want to make lifelong connections to the "right cohort" you should put energy in getting your kid into the "right" K-8 or K-12. The lifelong friendships are made then, and private school students at elite colleges often hang with other kids who went to similar private elementary/high schools. Elite college is cliquey but in kindergarten the kids are so young they don't care. That's been my experience having gone to private K-12 in NYC myself, putting my kids through that now, and having one at so-called "top 20" elite college now. [/quote]

This 1000%. Have kids who attended public and one attended an elite private. My private school son is 22 and his best friends are still his prep school high school friends. They all went to top30 colleges but saw each other every break, every summer, etc. It's this high school community that he sees looking out for each other professionally in the top circles of IB, PE and business. They have yearly alum gatherings that trump anything I've seen at the collegiate level. [/quote]

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