<p>aracesso
There are preppy, rich kids at all of the colleges you are considering. Stanford has the most full-pay students: 50%, so it is likely that it has the most rich kids.</p>
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<p>There is a little bit of truth to this. I have a D at Yale and a D at Harvard, so I understand the difference in the living situations pretty well.</p>
<p>At Harvard, in Spring of your freshman year, you pick your sophomore roommates from among your friends, and you will be assigned to the same house with them for the rest of your years there. You can continue to live with them or not for Jr and Sr years, but will have to choose from among others in that house if you do not.</p>
<p>At Yale, you know upon arrival which res. college you will be assigned to for the entire 4 years, and are immediately placed in a suite with fellow-college members your freshman year. If you all decide stay together for sophomore year, then your work is done finding roommates, but like you say, they might not be friends who you hang out with.</p>
<p>In D at Yale’s case, she did not want to live with her freshman suitemates - they were not like her, she did not like some of their living habits, and she did not spend time with them as friends. She therefore had to find other people in her res. college to live with soph year, which was not difficult for her because she is quite social, but it created a bit of stress and maybe moreso than Harvard’s system does, because D’s closest friends whom she would have liked to live with were not in her college.</p>