<p>Which schools would you recommend for people who want to make friends with kids whoose parents have lots of power + money and schools where alums help "their own." Basically, what school does someone go to to become part of the "old boys network"</p>
<p>Ivy League</p>
<p>USC?</p>
<p>And all the small liberal arts colleges that rich folk go to, like Ithaca.</p>
<p>What school does Ben Bernanke's daughter go to? Her dad is probably the most powerful man in the world.</p>
<p>Dartmouth i hear</p>
<p>Princeton (people are rich and intelligent)
USC ( full of rich kids)
Wellesley ( for rich girls only)
Williams ( you might meet a prince from somewhere in Europe there)</p>
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<p>I think the answer is obvious - it's Harvard. Harvard is not only filled with kids who come from powerful and rich families, but Harvard alumni are notoriously 'incestual' when it comes to hiring and bonding. You can't get more of an 'old boy network' than at the big H.</p>
<p>Notre Dame is good for networking</p>
<p>No need to bother unless you are both A & B:</p>
<p>A) Male
B) White / Caucasian / Whatever</p>
<p>ksanders, I'm a white caucasian male... that's why I started this thread</p>
<p>Michigan, Yale, Harvard...All huge networkign bases</p>
<p>i would say princeton is #1</p>
<p>Princeton, Yale, Harvard, Dartmouth, Duke, Williams, Amherst are the most loyal alums I have seen.</p>
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<p>Maybe, but at the very least, a female at one of the co-ed schools could end up marrying one of the white males, right? Not that I agree with what you said.</p>
<p>H,Y, P, and Dartmouth of the Ivies. Duke, Notre Dame and Stanford. Among selective LAC's, Amherst, Williams, Bowdoin, Holy Cross, Davidson, and Colgate-allhave alumni giving rates near 50% and well placed alumni in business.</p>
<p>Probably the flagship public university in the state that you plan to live in.</p>
<p>northstarmom, what do you mean? how could you know what state you'll live in? I'm planning on traveling/moving around a while until I <em>settle</em> down</p>
<p>"northstarmom, what do you mean? how could you know what state you'll live in? I'm planning on traveling/moving around a while until I <em>settle</em> down"</p>
<p>I think that most people are happy in their home states, and view themselves as living relatively close to their family and hometown in adulthood. I was not one of those people. and consequently, I have lived all over the country in adulthood. What I notice, though, is that most people seem to live relatively close to their home area and also went to college in their home states.</p>
<p>Where I live, people from the state's #1 and #2 public universities have the edge when it comes to jobs. People from Ivies and similar schools are looked at askance, including when applying for top jobs. ( I went to an Ivy and speak from experience). The hiring network for virtually all jobs is related to the flagship and #2 public universities and to their sorority/frat networks.</p>
<p>This kind of provincialism probably doesn't hold true for places like D.C., NY or Boston, but most places have little in common with those cities.</p>
<p>ivies duke stanford nd northwestern small top LAC's and flagship state schools like the UC's and Penn State</p>
<p>Harvard is in a league of its own. But many schools provide excellent netowrking potential. Among the privates universities, the remaining 7 Ivies, Boston College, Caltech, Duke, Georgetown, MIT, Northwestern, Notre Dame, Stanford and USC all have excellent networks. Among the LACs, schools like Amherst, Bates, Bowdoin, Claremont McKenna, Colby, Colgate, Davidson, Grinnell, Haverford, Middlebury, Pomona, Swarthmore, Wesleyan and Williams also have excellent networks, but those are usually not as broad. Some publics also have excellent networks, especially Michigan-Ann Arbor, UVA and Wisconsin-Madison. Cal, UCLA, UNC, Texas-Austin and William and Mary also have excellent alum networks.</p>