<p>re Money:</p>
<p>Our son is able to attend Duke because he qualified for considerable financial aid. Many of the students around him come from families with substantial wealth. What does he call them? drum roll here: “Friends.” Oh, and BTW, this group of friends is comprised of males and females of many backgrounds, faiths, races, and ethnicities. Many of them participate in campus groups oriented around their race or religion or such. But I don’t see that as self-segregation when they attend the presentations of each other’s organizations, deliberately meet for dinner now that they are scattered across campus, care for and about each other…you know, behave like friends.</p>
<p>According to him, money or lack of it has not mattered the tiniest bit to anyone. What matters is intelligence, humor, personality, etc… </p>
<p>Now, there probably are some pretentious people with money; there was the same type at the prestigious State U I attended decades ago. But S has no interest in them, because he wouldn’t like them anyway. Jerks are jerks, whether they are wealthy jerks or jerks of more modest means!</p>