<p>What would be a really enjoyable college for a student who has a lot of money and who doesn't have to worry about financial aid or working while in college? Where could such a student find a compatible social life and plush facilities? What college would help that student build up a social network of fellow rich people? </p>
<p>(I'm just curious; this is NOT my family's situation.)</p>
<p>I would say Columbia or Harvard. The social life at Columbia is fantastic, especially being in New York and in a great area as well. It is ivy league, so it's a no-brainer in terms of social network. New York is very expensive, but the opporutunities and availability of internships are endless. Harvard's connections are a no brainer as well. Not to mention it is in Cambridge, which is just a 10 subway ride from Boston, which is a great city unto its own.</p>
<p>...harvard???? :p</p>
<p>Penn sounds like a fit.</p>
<p>Any Ivy, NYU, USC, GW, and other top private schools in urban areas all sound good. I'd agree that Penn is a place with lots of really rich kids who all seem really happy.</p>
<p>Actually, those new financial-aid programs are polluting the social environment in the Ivies for all the rich kids of America. Ah, to be in the good old days, when daddy's money could buy your way in.</p>
<p>naw man, you guys all have it wrong </p>
<p>clearly Yale...are we forgetting 'Skull and Bones' like come on</p>
<p>talk about your ultimate social network...like hell if harfard isnt a great 'tearing up the town' kind of place you can always drive to boston or new york. </p>
<p>so yeah, skull and bones trumps all...wiki it if you dont know what it is</p>
<p>I'd add Princeton. Even if the university strives for economic diversity in admissions (and I'm not aware if it does or doesn't), the shopping/restaurant area along the main drag is decidedly upscale and the most obvious road trip --- NYC --- is moneybags heaven and a frustrating place for someone on a budget.</p>
<p>Stanford perhaps?</p>
<p>Cornell University
Dartmouth College
Duke University
Georgetown University
Harvard University
Middlebury College
Northwestern University
Princeton University
Stanford University
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
University of Pennsylvania
University of Virginia
Vanderbilt University
Williams College</p>
<p>Thanks for all the replies. Do each of you agree with the colleges mentioned by the other participants who have kindly replied?</p>
<p>The notion of Harvard fitting this description is outdated. There are students of all socio-economic levels there, and other than a few showplaces the facilities are unexceptional. This sounds like NYU or GW to me - two schools with high price tags and stingy financial aid, in excitingly social but horrificly expensive neighborhoods.</p>
<p>Boston University is also very pricey i believe. It's not exactly a top tier college...but you asked for most expensive, soo....</p>
<p>Princeton is #1 for rich kids – eating clubs strike me as being one of the most openly elitist (and costly) dining options at any school.</p>
<p>Boston University is quite expensive, but I don't get the sense that it's a "rich kids school"--actually, I'd say Boston College is more like that, from what I've heard. My cousins live near both schools and they have a lot of friends going to BU who are getting financial aid or are on loans or something else. Of course, there are plenty of kids paying out of pocket, but I don't get the sense it has the sort of rich/preppy/high society feel to it that some other schools listed do. I could be wrong though.</p>
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<p>S&B is a joke these days. It's not the old boys club that it used to be...</p>
<p>I'd say SMU.</p>
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<p>Alex, your bias is showing. UMich?! Sure, for an OOS student, UMich is very expensive and gives little financial aid.</p>
<p>I would take out UMich and UVa.
I would add: USC and Rice. </p>
<p>If you're gonna keep UMich and UVa, and one has to pay OOS tuition, you might as well add the best too - Berkeley. :p</p>
<p>Rice?? Nobody even talks about family income at Rice. I honestly have no idea what socioeconomic background my Rice colleagues came from, and nobody cared a whit, either. Vetoing Rice.</p>
<p>Seconding Princeton, though. Our homecoming queen, who so far as I could tell didn't do nearly as much as she ought to have had to do to get into Princeton, went to Princeton. I think there's a building named after her family or something. I know some other people who went there and they're really knock-out intelligent, but I was really kind of taken aback by the notion that money would get someone into there.</p>
<p>If you're looking for schools where rich kids hang out you can take away any state school. If you're looking for schools where it's old money wasps you can take away anything that's not HYP.</p>
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<p>Who said this girl wasn't smart?</p>