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This is exactly my feeling.

I didn't go to an Ivy League school. But it doesn't bother me at all that children of rich people go to elite schools, get degrees in Russian Literature, Art History, Political Science, play lacrosse, get jobs in white-shoe law firms, sit on boards, etc.

It doesn't affect me or hurt me at all. Let them have their club. So what?

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> that children of rich people go to elite schools, get degrees in Russian Literature, Art History, Political Science, play lacrosse, get jobs in white-shoe law firms, sit on boards, etc.

I’ve got news for you. Children of rich people who don’t go to Ivies do this, too.

The common thread isn’t “went to Ivy”, rather “children of rich people”. Their network is their value.

Only if that club has an outsized impact on your world, a club you are completely excluded from.

As an above commenter mentioned, it can be akin to an aristocracy.

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