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In my experience talking with Stanford alums and just walking around the Stanford campus most people there appear to be already rich. It is not Berkeley, where
by wiggumz 11y ago
In my experience talking with Stanford alums and just walking around the Stanford campus most people there appear to be already rich. It is not Berkeley, where regular people go.
- r0naa 11y agoMy thoughts exactly. This has caused some amount of cognitive dissonance because I know a significant number of people who are Stanford students and coming from a modest socio-economic background. That being said there is definitely a lot of money hanging out around there. It'd be a hasty generalization to say that everyone at Stanford is part of that Silicon Valley Elite though. It's more nuanced than what it seems.
- walshemj 11y agoI remember my cousin who went to UMIST Top 3 Uk uni) how adjusting to being around lot of students who where far wealthier was quite hard. I suspect going to Oxford and Bumping into students who are members of the bullingdon club is the same but far more so
- gaius 11y agoUMIST is top 3 in what rankings? It's not even Russell Group!
- laurencerowe 11y agoUMIST was subsumed by the University of Manchester in 2004 which together brought them to a distant 5th in the UK rankings by research income. (Oxford, Cambridge, Imperial and UCL are the only UK institutions that can really claim to be world class, though all those lists tend to be rather anglo-centric.) Engineering tends to attract a slightly more economically diverse intake than the arts, but UMIST's was still very skewed towards the offspring of the professional middle classes. I'm not surprised to hear that someone who did not share that background might have felt a little socially alienated.
- walshemj 11y agoActually he was from the well off side of the family - he was talking about wealth beyond upper middle class.
- walshemj 11y agoTop 3 or 4 for Computing back in the 70's when my cousin went well supposedly back then there where only 5 or so Computing Degrees that where considered any good. Its also based in Manchester and was where Baby was built you know one of the first computers :-)
- throw_away 11y agoI was never much of a school rivalry kind of person until one Big Game where the Stanford crowd marched by, chanting "one day you will work for us." Go Bears.
- mattmurdog 11y agoNot rich, but well off. Upper middle class.