Which schools (besides the Ivies of course) have the "richest" students?

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<p>I'm just curious. I know quite a few people at the Ivies, MIT, Stanford, and Duke are from very wealthy families, but what about the other top schools?</p>

<p>Such as Washington, Northwestern, Vanderbilt, etc?</p>

<p>When I went to visit Northwestern, no one screamed "rich" like some of the ones at Yale for example.</p>

<p>Soo just wondering, thanks!</p>

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<p>Pepperdine</p>

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<p>Colgate
-only athletic scholarships, no merit ones
-about 50k-55k per year</p>

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<p>You cant tell how much money dudes have from how they dress. Theres lots of rich people who dress normal cause they want to fit in and don’t want people to be mean to them. Like the dudes that drive expensive cars to school. People are like dude your cool in front of them, but then make fun of them cause usually they are dorks. And i bet really rich kids dont go to college. Why would you bother if you have tons of money? You could go on vacation all the time and you wouldn’t even need to own a house.</p>

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<p>Vanderbilt</p>

<p>It’s kind of ridiculous, actually. Yes, they have great financial aid, but no one involved in the Greek system is on financial aid. So, if you want to be involved in that aspect of life there, it kind of skews your perspective that the entire student body is wealthy. I’ve heard comments to the effect of “This is Vanderbilt, everyone has money” many, many times. You can tell from the attitudes, clothes, cars, and bags that girls carry. The school estimates that it costs $57k/yr to attend there, so if you can pay that without any help, that automatically makes you at least upper middle class.</p>

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<p>Any school in NESCAC or the Patriot League will have plenty of rich people</p>

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<p>New York University.</p>

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<p>IPEDS has information on the % of students receiving aid and the average amount of aid. Subtract the product of those two variables from the total COA and you can see how much an average student actually spends.</p>

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<p>The Ivies have some of the best financial aid in the nation.</p>

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<p>^ yeah, I really wouldn’t be surprised if the average Trinity College student came from a wealthier family than the average Brown student</p>

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<p>To answer that question it’d be useful to look at Mini’s ENTITLEMENT INDEX</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-life/11033-rich-kid-schools-4.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-life/11033-rich-kid-schools-4.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>ENTITLEMENT INDEX AMONG 50 “TOP” (according to USNWR) LIBERAL ARTS COLLEGES</p>

<p>The first number represents the percentage of students who were admitted from private schools. The second number represents the percentage of students who do not receive need-based financial aid from the institution. The final number is the “Entitlement” (“preppy”) Index score. Numbers are taken from the most recent Princeton Review.</p>

<ol>
<li>Davidson 52/67 119</li>
<li>Washington and Lee 40/73 113</li>
<li>Trinity 57/53 119</li>
<li>Bates 48/60 108</li>
<li>Middlebury 45/60 105</li>
<li>Kenyon 46/59 105</li>
<li>Williams 46/58 104</li>
<li>Univ. of the South 48/55 103</li>
<li>Connecticut 48/54 102</li>
<li>Colby 40/60 100</li>
<li>Skidmore 40/58 98</li>
<li>Bowdoin 43/55 98</li>
<li>Furman 39/57 96</li>
<li>Haverford 39/57 96</li>
<li>Amherst 44/52 96</li>
<li>Wesleyan 44/52 96</li>
<li>Barnard 47/48 95</li>
<li>Swarthmore 40/51 91</li>
<li>Pomona 40/49 89</li>
<li>Whitman 30/58 88</li>
</ol>

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<p>Funny. there’s also a forbes rank of america’s most expensive colleges but it looks quite different from what we expected. maybe the most expensive schools give good aids too?</p>

<p>[America’s</a> Most Expensive Colleges - Forbes.com](<a href=“http://www.forbes.com/2010/10/04/americas-most-expensive-colleges-business-most-expensive-colleges.html]America’s”>America's Most Expensive Colleges)</p>

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<p>Colgate</p>

<p>Whitman</p>

<p>Hamilton</p>

<p>Bard</p>

<p>NYU</p>

<p>Most of the top liberal arts colleges or any private school in a major metropolitan area.</p>

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<p>Actually the Ivies don’t have the richest students…certainly there are a higher percentage of rich kids at Yale than there are at, say, Ohio State, but compared to non-Ivy private schools, it’s actually pretty low, because the financial aid is awesome. I know kids here (at Yale) who turned down LACs or even a state school to come here because it was actually cheaper. Full rides (no loans) for anyone whose family brings in less than $60k = lots of working class students.</p>

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<p>^
agreed. even better off than going to state school.</p>

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<p>have you ever known a rich person??! I (kind of) am one and am surrounded by them because of where I live and they ALL get educations. they don’t just travel and lounge at the country club. wow how narrow minded are you? haha trust me that would be extremely looked down upon not to go to college…</p>

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<p>Does the OP have any proof that Ivies have the wealthiest students? I, for one, don’t necessarily think that this is completely true.</p>

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<p>lorrainedelis- I’m not narrowminded, but you sure are an idiot.
You didn’t even understand my question, and I clearly said I was just curious.
Did I ever say they “ALL” don’t get educations?
Did I ever say anything regarding their education due to whether they are rich or not.
No.
I was curious as to where they matriculated.
Did I ever say they never went to college?
WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?
You completely misunderstood, so don’t call me narrowminded when you have no mind at all.</p>

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<p>who cares?</p>

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<p>UVA</p>

<p>10char</p>