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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Careers may be becoming global but the old school networks will still survive.  If you don't understand how important they can be, you are either not a part of them or you don't want to take part.  You because you are born into that background does not necessarily mean you fit in.  There have always been black sheep.

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Sorry, but you don't know what you're talking about.

You're fooling yourself if you think you can send your average kid to Sidwell and *poof* he's suddenly hanging out with old boys like the Rockefellers, who will pull strings at Harvard to get him in. First, I'm not aware of many families like this (old money and still actually influential) at Big 3s today. Those Administration DASses with kids at your kid's school will be gone from office, and probably from the DC area, in a few years. Those high tech millionaires from VA are too busy trying to get their own kids into the same colleges your kid is applying to, and anyway, do you really think one of them is going to call up Columbia and offer an extra 100 grand if they'll take your no-name kid? And the rest of your kids' classmates don't have that power or money, sorry.

As the granddaughter of a university president, I did hear stories about this - decades ago. These days, the sort of string pulling at colleges you're talking about might, might, work for a handful of kids per college per year. And the lucky kids are likely to be development cases or legacies. [/quote]

I am not talking about my kids specifically, or getting in to college.  They are legacies at excellent universities and very smart, engaging people in their own right.  They also have a family background of which to be quite proud.  This is about the network from their schools down the road.  It does matter and it does make a difference, only not in the way some people on here seem to think.  I see it all the time in Washington and, if you don't okay, that is fine for you and your children.  My children will have every opportunity and option available to them.

So, is your answer to the original question private or TJ?

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