<p>Agree. On the physical level, everything is integrated, and more affluent families are generous in including the less affluent kids. Under the surface…when you know you can’t return that hospitality in the way it was given to you; when you make the decision for the hundredth time not to even mention your dormmate’s slick new computer or smartphone or designer clothes to your parents because you know what they’re giving up just to keep you at school, I think it can, over time, rankle and surface at times as bitterness. Nothing new in that, or much that can be done–and I certainly don’t mean to make other parents, whose generosity and kindness often seems boundless, feel defensive. Many of those parents were the scholarship kids of their generation. Nonetheless, the divide does exist, though perhaps felt mostly by the have nots.</p>