Well-off families create 'glass floor' to ensure children's success, says study

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10. Nearly 30 years ago I was engaged in my job hunt

while a second-year student at Harvard Law.

I was a high-school dropout, went on to graduate summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from the U of Minnesota in four years and was accepted by nine of the ten law schools I applied to. Yale was the one I didn't get into, but I made the cut at Penn, Cornell, Columbia and several other top-tier schools.

Inevitably, one of the first three questions I asked when interviewing in my hometown was "Where did you go to high school?" Translation: Do your parents have money/connections? The name of the working-class 'burb in which I grew up was the "wrongest" possible answer and brought a couple of interviews to a dead stop.

Ever since I have said "They'd rather have a rich kid who went to Hamline (a St Paul school) than a poor kid that went to Harvard."