The Abbots are not just Mayflower people. Their scions are also signers if the Declaration of Independence (if I’m not mistaken) and the constitution. Conspiracy theorists identify them, along with the Delano’s as one of the 13 Illuminati families ;-). Lol.
Then again, one can not get more elite than the Rockefellers these days. UChicago only needs a Morgan to complete the whole east coast elite vibe.
The list of 13 illuminati families I’ve seen includes the Astors but not the Abbotts. And DuPonts, not Delanos. There are clearly pretenders at work. Rockefellers definitely illuminati.
Off topic:
Medical School is not dead yet 
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Chicago is getting more preppy, though it’s still nothing like HYP. In the years I’ve been here there’s been a pretty noticeable uptick in the number of students from Andover, Choate, and Exeter.
@FStratford I don’t think it’s true that Chicago Law is more theoretical than Yale. Yale produces far more legal academics per capita than any other law school and Chicago and Columbia are the top producers of biglaw attorneys per capita, far higher than Yale. Chicago definitely has a more academic culture than the other T6 law schools excepting Yale, though, which is reflected in its reputation as the most difficult law school in the country.
It’s funny that FStratford conflated Harvard Business School and Yale Law School. In the past – when I was more familiar with the day-to-day culture at each of them – it would have been hard to find two institutions serving the same demographic segment that were more different. HBS was all about networking and (of course) making money. I don’t think theory had anything to do with it. The Harvard MBAs of my generation didn’t even use math. At Yale Law School, about two-thirds of the people were sitting around arguing about what a legal system would like like that was not hierarchical in interpretive authority, and the other third were (as at Chicago) talking about the appropriate relationship between judicial decisionmaking and economic models. Also, many, perhaps even most, Yale Law graduates never worked as private-sector lawyers, and if they did they didn’t do so for long. It was gloriously impractical.