Brown_Pride
All Star
I went to the best private highschool in my state on scholarship and I gotta say it was a damn good experience. I never really ran into any "prick" type people and was nothing but accepted, so my experience is not like yours Per say. What I will say is that I do know my fair share if rich kid doctors, lawyers and hedge fund managers, that if their parents didnt have money their lives would be fukked. None of them bad people, just made shytty choices but were lucky enough to be able to fund a rebound. What is a death sentence in a lot of cases for the poor or working class is often a 6 month sabbatical to some therapeutic retreat.I'm interested to know the real answer to this question nationwide. Cause when things like the Harvard lawsuit or arguments about AA come out, there are millions of people coming out of the woodwork, "Well, college should be restricted to those who DESERVE to go there" and other bullshyt. Or when the intelligence of a public figure is being debated, then his Ivy League education is trotted out, even if he came from a rich-as-fukk family who paid his way in there. Did all those people not realize the bullshyt involved, or were they just cynically ignoring it for argument points?
I went to one of these elite schools, I was one of the ones who "wasn't supposed to be there". It was weird as fukk for me. Like, when I grew up I knew we were kinda poor but we weren't poor poor. My dad always had a job and we never lacked for anything even if our income was below average. But college was a different story - I was legit the 2nd-poorest person in my ENTIRE freshman class. There was this Latina from the straight hood, her whole family was gangster af but she was a math genius, she was the only one in our entire freshman class who came from a rougher background than me. I was legit scared as hell on day 1 cause they were all rich, damn near all private schools or elite public schools, all came out of special clubs and internships and all that shyt. Everyone had a dad who had owned this company or worked in that lab or whatever.
There were these two guys I had to live with freshman year that emphasized White privilege to me the most.
One of them was this prick from Alaska with a mouth on him. He legit had to have had the worst high school grades of ANYONE in our school, and his test scores weren't that great either. He supposedly got in cause he was an all-state swimmer in Alaska, but who could possibly give a fukk about swimmers from Alaska, he didn't even go out for the team. In reality it was solely because his older brother was an alum who had been some sort of star at the school and now owned his own company (that would be sold for $150 million that year). I don't think he had to pay his way in, but I think they accepted him solely on the strength of his brother and maybe on the hopes that his brother would be more likely to donate big if they kept his family in the loop. He stayed getting WOAT grades his whole way through school but eventually graduated a year after he was supposed to and works as an engineer now.
And again, I know all this shyt because he had a mouth that wouldn't shut up. You think I was telling them about my family?
The other guy was even worse. So this guy's story was that he was smart but sucked ass in high school cause he didn't give a shyt, was getting C's and stuff. But his parents were both hot-shot lawyers and big-donor Oregon alums who thought high school just wasn't challenging enough for him, so after his SOPHOMORE year they got him into UofO based solely off of him having a good SAT for a sophomore. He legit got into college after just two years in high school when his high school grades sucked. He goes to UofO at 16 and does even worse, by the end of his first year he's failing literally every subject. So his rich parents pull him out and send him back to high school, but they send him to an elite boarding school in Canada so he'll "get some discipline." He falls in line and does better there. When it comes time to apply for college the Canadian grading system is different than the American one, so even though his grades are okay (the equivalent of As and Bs), he or his parents got the school to misrepresent it as a 4.0 average in the college apps. So then he gets accepted to our elite school, literally his FOURTH chance not to fukk up.
The kid was book-smart enough but the other white boys nicknamed him "lush" cause he was literally drunk all the time, and lazy as fukk too. He was the kinda drunk who did stupid-ass drunk shyt, like the time he rolled out of bed the wrong way and fell out his fukking window on the 2nd story, broke his thumb and his nose on the fall, then took a piss and walked back and went back to sleep. By his senior year his grades are so bad that he fails out of school. The admin said that he could go to another college and work his grades up then come back the next year, but his hot-shot lawyer parents sued the school to challenge the decision. The school put him in his place and not only upheld the ruling but said he couldn't come back at all. So I never had to see him again since then, but like 10 years later I google his name and he's working AS AN INSTRUCTOR at a fukking college (with a B.A. from an Ivy League that he somehow got accepted to AFTER he failed out of our school).
These are the guys I had to live with freshman year. Other people are breaking their ass trying to beat a rigged system while dealing with all sorts of other shyt in their lives, and they stay fukking around and getting second and third and fourth and fifth chances cause of who their family is.
That being said, I had my fill of rich entitled kids in college and my professional life.
*shrug*
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