Anonymous wrote:Nouveau riche. Same look at my kid’s high school in NoVa — but not lambos. Many drive quite irresponsibly, a much bigger problem than looking tacky.

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Anonymous wrote:Tale as old as time...

Except now the veil is lifted a bit.
We now know that these rich kids won't fade into the background of daddy's business or a life of leisure. They get to be the international power set who pull the strings of our lives and are above the law.

Yep. And they got in by cheating - easy to get someone else to take the SAT for you, then daddy bribes the college with a donation. Then they cheat as naturally as breathing once in the college. Pay for test banks, pay someone else to do their work and write their papers, someone else shows up to take their test, etc. Nobody is punished even if caught or suspected of cheating. The colleges turn a blind eye to the highly choreographed rich foreign cheat rings, while a poor middle class American kid on scholarship will be humiliated in front of a ethics board. Their degrees are fake.

And yet, they will still run the world.

Anonymous wrote:Dumb question because I'm not into cars: What makes the Lambo Urus worth $400k instead of, say, $200k or $65k?

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Anonymous wrote:My kids are at two different T20 and talk about the multiple Lamborghini urus/Bentleys all over campus. Friends with kids at Yale, Princeton and Stanford also mention it - in disgust. Over the top showy wealth.

Look at r/yale today for a post.

All international /non-US born students own these cars (according to my DC, these kids tell their parents they need a car and then get a 250k budget for a car).

So how is this normal? Why don’t T50 admissions offices educate their wealthy non-US donors and tell them this is a sure fire way to stand out (in a bad way)?

Cars don’t have to cost 400k…

Newsflash: These kids and their cars are also at schools not in the T50.

Anonymous wrote:Do you have a question, boo?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kids are at two different T20 and talk about the multiple Lamborghini urus/Bentleys all over campus. Friends with kids at Yale, Princeton and Stanford also mention it - in disgust. Over the top showy wealth.

Look at r/yale today for a post.

All international /non-US born students own these cars (according to my DC, these kids tell their parents they need a car and then get a 250k budget for a car).

So how is this normal? Why don’t T50 admissions offices educate their wealthy non-US donors and tell them this is a sure fire way to stand out (in a bad way)?

Cars don’t have to cost 400k…

The wealthy international full pay donors might be subsidizing your merit scholarship, FA or dorm reno.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kids are at two different T20 and talk about the multiple Lamborghini urus/Bentleys all over campus. Friends with kids at Yale, Princeton and Stanford also mention it - in disgust. Over the top showy wealth.

Look at r/yale today for a post.

All international /non-US born students own these cars (according to my DC, these kids tell their parents they need a car and then get a 250k budget for a car).

So how is this normal? Why don’t T50 admissions offices educate their wealthy non-US donors and tell them this is a sure fire way to stand out (in a bad way)?

Cars don’t have to cost 400k…

Sorry not sorry.

My kid needs his Lambo at Yale.

Anonymous wrote:Oh great, another xenophobic foreigner-bashing thread. Yes, OP, 100% of all foreign students are wealthy and have luxury cars! It doesn't matter that I happen to know that most do not, because I am a foreigner myself, and know lots of foreign kids at many American universities! My college kid doesn't even own a car!

And of course they lie on their apps! All foreigners do that!

For shame. Take your hate elsewhere.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here. Wow this took off.

Just a weird observation on the part of my 2 college kids at two very different private T20 schools. Not focused on one race at all but the kids there all talk and know who drive these flashy cars (usually wealthy international kids from BRICs nations).

We are full pay (and recognized donor at 1 of the 2 schools) so we aren’t “jealous” - it’s just an interesting social commentary. Like what’s wrong with a Range Rover or a G wagon? - one of my kids told me that this is the choice because the parents don’t understand the currency conversion /local price of goods/ how much a car in the US cost so the budget for a car is extra extraordinarily large. So the kids just pick the most pricey option? At least according to a fraternity member.

I really think there’s just a cultural disconnect when college campuses are so extraordinarily bifurcated. There are other noticeable SES signs like this too - but i’ll probably be condemned for making stereotypes so I won’t - but ask your kids - it’s become a weird topic of conversation with my kids friends… Spot the Uris.

I’m curious how prevalent it is at other private schools.

The families certainly know what the exchange rate is. Typically, the flashy supercars on college campuses are owned by mainland Chinese students. That is a separate social world that has very little interaction with non-mainland Chinese. This sub-culture is very apparent at schools like USC and UBC in Canada. Most of them go home to Shanghai or wherever and join their family firms after college. A western degree is a status thing for them. It's also a four year vacation and these princelings make the most of it.

Our experience is that it's more the Middle Eastern kids...sons and daughters of Saudi Sheiks and the like.

Have you ever seen a Lamborghini SUV? I was unaware Lamborghini made SUVs, until I saw one on American University’s campus in the early 1990s when I was a student.

Rumor was an AU student was a prince from the House of Saud, but his real identity was kept a secret as possible to protect him from the Iranians or from Israel (or just kidnappers).

The presence of that SUV of his was a big clue, however. Lamborghini stopped making them in the 90s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamborghini_LM002

Then there was the Kashogi center built on AU campus, with donated money made from international weapons sales.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here. Wow this took off.

Just a weird observation on the part of my 2 college kids at two very different private T20 schools. Not focused on one race at all but the kids there all talk and know who drive these flashy cars (usually wealthy international kids from BRICs nations).

We are full pay (and recognized donor at 1 of the 2 schools) so we aren’t “jealous” - it’s just an interesting social commentary. Like what’s wrong with a Range Rover or a G wagon? - one of my kids told me that this is the choice because the parents don’t understand the currency conversion /local price of goods/ how much a car in the US cost so the budget for a car is extra extraordinarily large. So the kids just pick the most pricey option? At least according to a fraternity member.

I really think there’s just a cultural disconnect when college campuses are so extraordinarily bifurcated. There are other noticeable SES signs like this too - but i’ll probably be condemned for making stereotypes so I won’t - but ask your kids - it’s become a weird topic of conversation with my kids friends… Spot the Uris.

I’m curious how prevalent it is at other private schools.

The families certainly know what the exchange rate is. Typically, the flashy supercars on college campuses are owned by mainland Chinese students. That is a separate social world that has very little interaction with non-mainland Chinese. This sub-culture is very apparent at schools like USC and UBC in Canada. Most of them go home to Shanghai or wherever and join their family firms after college. A western degree is a status thing for them. It's also a four year vacation and these princelings make the most of it.

Our experience is that it's more the Middle Eastern kids...sons and daughters of Saudi Sheiks and the like.

Anonymous wrote:Tale as old as time...

Except now the veil is lifted a bit.
We now know that these rich kids won't fade into the background of daddy's business or a life of leisure. They get to be the international power set who pull the strings of our lives and are above the law.

Anonymous wrote:Oh great, another xenophobic foreigner-bashing thread. Yes, OP, 100% of all foreign students are wealthy and have luxury cars! It doesn't matter that I happen to know that most do not, because I am a foreigner myself, and know lots of foreign kids at many American universities! My college kid doesn't even own a car!

And of course they lie on their apps! All foreigners do that!

For shame. Take your hate elsewhere.