I agree that peers may include high achievers, future leaders etc, but also agree with @OneofOne that the student population at Harvard et al is fairly diverse, and increasingly so. If top schools were as portrayed in your post, my kids would have hated them. Everyone finds “their people” and it may not be a wealthy, well-connected person headed to Goldman Sachs. It may be an artist or philosophy major or writer or whatever, from a modest background but enough authenticity and/or talent to have gotten in. And when these friends graduate, they may not work for the money but for some continued “passion.”
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