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Q: What was the most “rich” thing you saw from your classmates while there? Something they did to make you realize, “Yeah, they definitely have disposable income.”
A: Offering to take my ENTIRE soccer team and other friends and family to an all-expenses paid trip to Disneyland via their private jet over spring break. There were people whose families owned multiple Ferraris, Porsches, luxury motorcycles, etc. One guy would drive a different one each day to school.
As for clothes and such, it was more common for kids to have to “earn” that stuff themselves. like if they got all A’s that semester, they could buy the Gucci shoes they wanted. Someone got a boat as a graduation present because they got into Dartmouth.
The most rampant examples were just parents funding their kids’ fake nonprofits and businesses to look good for college. Also, donations to the Ivies (we are talking a couple million here. Anything less doesn’t benefit) to guarantee their kid a spot. I suppose in comparison to the tuition, these things aren’t THAT crazy, but it seemed so dystopian to me.
