Anonymous
Post 04/27/2025 06:52     Subject: University Club, Cosmos Club, Other Clubs - Please Advise!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I think the Ned club is mic’d so that the owner of the building Michael Milken can do insider trading. I had a member tell me to “not say anything” while I was there. It’s absolutely beautiful, though.

Metropolitan club is very classic American aristocracy spending their time in DC. Amazing wine cellar.

Cosmos is the true intellectual club, and skews older but the members just need to pick up the phone to get something done, and are across the board amazing individuals.


Ahh no. The Met Club is not aristocracy at all. At least not anymore. The members I know that belong there are all from the Midwest and the Deep South places like Texas and Lousiana. I can't think of a single person that has joined there in recent years that is traditional elite ie: Northeast and definitely no democrats.


Pretty sure you’re out of the loop.
Anonymous
Post 04/27/2025 01:50     Subject: University Club, Cosmos Club, Other Clubs - Please Advise!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Has anyone tried the Ned?


Friends have told me The Ned can cancel your membership after just a year despite paying an initiation fee. Unlike other clubs it does not automatically renew. So you could pay a large initiation fee and only belong for one year.


How much is the initiation fee? I think I heard $5K annual dues - is that about right?
Anonymous
Post 04/27/2025 00:26     Subject: University Club, Cosmos Club, Other Clubs - Please Advise!
Good to know all the downsides of the Ned. Yikes
Anonymous
Post 04/26/2025 23:13     Subject: University Club, Cosmos Club, Other Clubs - Please Advise!
Anonymous wrote:If you're taking public transit there, I'm not sure you're a good fit.


Seems like a troll post on that basis alone.
Anonymous
Post 04/26/2025 10:29     Subject: University Club, Cosmos Club, Other Clubs - Please Advise!
Anonymous wrote:Has anyone tried the Ned?


Friends have told me The Ned can cancel your membership after just a year despite paying an initiation fee. Unlike other clubs it does not automatically renew. So you could pay a large initiation fee and only belong for one year.
Anonymous
Post 04/26/2025 10:27     Subject: University Club, Cosmos Club, Other Clubs - Please Advise!
Anonymous wrote:I think the Ned club is mic’d so that the owner of the building Michael Milken can do insider trading. I had a member tell me to “not say anything” while I was there. It’s absolutely beautiful, though.

Metropolitan club is very classic American aristocracy spending their time in DC. Amazing wine cellar.

Cosmos is the true intellectual club, and skews older but the members just need to pick up the phone to get something done, and are across the board amazing individuals.


Ahh no. The Met Club is not aristocracy at all. At least not anymore. The members I know that belong there are all from the Midwest and the Deep South places like Texas and Lousiana. I can't think of a single person that has joined there in recent years that is traditional elite ie: Northeast and definitely no democrats.
Anonymous
Post 04/26/2025 09:50     Subject: University Club, Cosmos Club, Other Clubs - Please Advise!
I think the Ned club is mic’d so that the owner of the building Michael Milken can do insider trading. I had a member tell me to “not say anything” while I was there. It’s absolutely beautiful, though.

Metropolitan club is very classic American aristocracy spending their time in DC. Amazing wine cellar.

Cosmos is the true intellectual club, and skews older but the members just need to pick up the phone to get something done, and are across the board amazing individuals.
Anonymous
Post 04/26/2025 09:31     Subject: University Club, Cosmos Club, Other Clubs - Please Advise!
Has anyone tried the Ned?
Anonymous
Post 04/26/2025 09:25     Subject: Re:University Club, Cosmos Club, Other Clubs - Please Advise!
left??


? I would love to know which ones lean left? I know which ones leans lean right or at least a few of the them


Cosmos leans left because it’s filled with highly educated people. But definitely an older crowd. I’ve been recruited twice as part of their attempt to build younger membership and I was about 46 the first time and 50 the second.
Anonymous
Post 04/25/2025 14:12     Subject: University Club, Cosmos Club, Other Clubs - Please Advise!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Ask about political leanings because some clubs are much further right or left than others and if you aren't interested in that you will want to know up front.


DP. I know which ones lean right ie: Met Club, Sulgrave, and Chevy. Which ones lean left??


? I would love to know which ones lean left? I know which ones leans lean right or at least a few of the them.
Anonymous
Post 04/24/2025 18:48     Subject: Re:University Club, Cosmos Club, Other Clubs - Please Advise!
I also got money from Cosmos Club during graduate school. Do you have a charity budget, OP? Because I suspect there is a lot of giving on top of membership dues.
Anonymous
Post 04/24/2025 17:40     Subject: University Club, Cosmos Club, Other Clubs - Please Advise!
Anonymous wrote:Do you even Society of the Cincinnati?

Can’t buy your way into that; it’s hereditary.

https://www.societyofthecincinnati.org/membership-overview/

We’re not talking about lineage societies