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The depressing thing about elite prep schools is that rich parents don’t send their kids there for a great education. They send them for the status—for the alumni network, for the proximity to other rich kids, for the shiny feather in their child's perfect pedigree. One of my favorite campus novels nails this: a disillusioned headmaster realizes that no matter how pure his intentions were, his school’s biggest selling point became its name. Not the education. Not the values. Just the brand. He built a school hoping to shape future leaders; he ended up running a glorified launchpad for Wall Street careers, Hamptons houses, and yachts. It’s the same energy behind people flexing Met Museum totes and NASA jackets. It's not about art or science. It’s about status through association. The hot girls read literary fiction moment? Also that. When intellect or culture becomes a branding exercise, the meaning gets hollowed out—and all that’s left is the name. If these themes hit, my book To Have and Have More is out now. And I’m on tour soon—NYC May 1, LA May 22, CT June 5. Hope to see you.

The depressing thing about elite prep schools is that rich parents don’t send their kids there for a great education. They send them for the status—for the alumni network, for the proximity to other rich kids, for the shiny feather in their child's perfect pedigree.

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You've reached Sanibel, author and sometimes rage-baiter. I do not identify as a sad rich girl but I am an ✨expert ✨on them thanks to years of reading about tragic heroines who refuse to exercise their free will. 

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