OT - Universities and Wealth

[TheVictors]

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/chart-which-universities-have-the-richest-graduates/

Pretty interesting ...clearly Harvard and the Ivy's leading the way and sorry, no ohio state or michigan state.

 

[Michchamp]

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/chart-which-universities-have-the-richest-graduates/

Pretty interesting ...clearly Harvard and the Ivy's leading the way and sorry, no ohio state or michigan state.

Not surprised Harvard is #1 running away with it... seems to be the place to be for all the Jared Kushner types in the US, or brats/"scions" of similar families from around the world.

Kinda surprised Yale isn't higher. I guess they need to attract more billionaire offspring.

 

[Michchamp]

"Higher education is often considered the first rung in the ladder of success."

people still believe this bullshit?

 

[tinselwolverine]

"Higher education is often considered the first rung in the ladder of success."

people still believe this bullshit?

I guess all those rich people who allegedly paid bribes to get their kids who were pretty much destined to be rich anyway did at the time.

 

[Michchamp]

I guess all those rich people who allegedly paid bribes to get their kids who were pretty much destined to be rich anyway did at the time.

allegedly!

 

[byco42]

I don't see the School of Hard Knocks on that list.

 

[TheVictors]

You'd have to think Harvard/Princeton is 'old money' in the sense of those 'blue bloods' and their family money made in steel or manufacturing and that Stanford is 'new money' ...Silicon Valley money.

Michigan is probably a bit of both but the two UHNW alumni I'm friends with both grew up middle class and made their own money.

 

[Michchamp]

You'd have to think Harvard/Princeton is 'old money' in the sense of those 'blue bloods' and their family money made in steel or manufacturing and that Stanford is 'new money' ...Silicon Valley money.

Michigan is probably a bit of both but the two UHNW alumni I'm friends with both grew up middle class and made their own money.

From some of the articles that have been published recently about Harvard admissions, notably the Kushner one, and the one about the rich Chinese guy buying the fencing coach a house so his kids could go there, Harvard seems pretty "new money" to me.

I always thought of the "lower tier" Ivies as "old money"... Dartmouth, Brown, Penn, Cornell.

Princeton, for some reason, I think of as being "old money that is actually smart" but I keep remembering the movie "A Beautiful Mind" and an unrelated article on academia I read where the author felt Princeton among all American schools was closest to that Oxford/Old English sort of academic rigor.

for all I know Princeton and Yale are just a little more discreet about letting people buy their way in.

 

[TheVictors]

From some of the articles that have been published recently about Harvard admissions, notably the Kushner one, and the one about the rich Chinese guy buying the fencing coach a house so his kids could go there, Harvard seems pretty "new money" to me.

I always thought of the "lower tier" Ivies as "old money"... Dartmouth, Brown, Penn, Cornell.

Princeton, for some reason, I think of as being "old money that is actually smart" but I keep remembering the movie "A Beautiful Mind" and an unrelated article on academia I read where the author felt Princeton among all American schools was closest to that Oxford/Old English sort of academic rigor.

for all I know Princeton and Yale are just a little more discreet about letting people buy their way in.

My Dad and Uncle went to Dartmouth. My Dad on an athletic swimming scholarship and Uncle (married my Mom's sister so not related to Dad) was a Philly-area Prep School kid whose Dad was some muckety muck in Chicago at the Tribune. The kid I roomed with Soph year who transferred to Harvard was also a Prep School kid from the NY area and said Harvard wasn't as hard as MICHIGAN ...just a lot more famous last names and money and power.