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How Children Of The 0.001% Choose Their College
Why endure a five-hour drive from Manhattan to Cornell in a rental car, when for just $150,000 you can undertake a 12-leg American college tour in the comfort of your own Gulfstream G200? As The NY Post reports, "dozens of families are taking advantage of the convenience by visiting colleges this way," which includes introductions to "high-profile alumni," such as athletes and successful businesspeople.
“It’s less about the decadence, more about the timesaving,” insists Jet Edge president Bill Papariella, adding that the tour costs the customer around $80,000. But as The NY Post reports, while most high school seniors complete the dreaded college circuit in a rental car or their folks’ worn-out station wagon, an increasing number of parents are spending tens of thousands of dollars on private jets to ferry their privileged kids to college campuses.
“It’s becoming a bigger part of our business,” says Anthony Tivnan, president of leading private-jet charter company Magellan Jets, which organized the 12-leg, $150,000 trans-America tour for the son of a California-based financier and his relatives in August 2014.
“Dozens of families are taking advantage of the convenience by visiting colleges this way.”
The service is so popular, last month Magellan launched a special package for “budget-minded” college-goers. The National Bank of Mom and Dad can now buy 10 hours of flight time aboard a Magellan jet for a bargain price of $43,500.
The deal includes varsity wear for the entire family emblazoned with the letters and emblems of each college — Princeton hoodies for everyone! — plus matching notebooks, and pointers from an independent admissions adviser.
Magellan even goes so far as to offer introductions to “high-profile alumni,” such as athletes and successful businesspeople, either in person or by phone.
“We take care of everything,” explains Tivnan. “Many commercial airlines don’t have direct flights into airports near the universities, making it difficult to see multiple colleges in one day.
“Fly privately and you can visit as many as five or six colleges in the space of two or three days.”
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Of course, the types of families who use these services are card-carrying members of the 1 percent. “We have a lot of private individuals, in real estate, investment banking and hedge funds,” says Papariella. “It’s not so much Fortune 500 CEOs, who live [under the microscope].”
Manhattan-based author and social anthropologist Dr. Wednesday Martin, whose much-anticipated memoir, “Primates of Park Avenue,” somewhat wearily tells The Post that it’s another symptom of what she terms “privileged parenting” among wealthy families, and the “luxe-ification of childhood.”
“It’s cradle-to-college coddling,” she says.
“That basic reproductive impulse to shield kids from predators, disease and starvation is now rerouted to protect them from discomfort and inconvenience.”
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“Their kids are growing up fast, and these tours are bittersweet,” she says. “But the most difficult part is further down the road, when they hire a jet to drop them off at college [for good].
Poor little loves...
It seems to us that everyone should have this opportunity - free private-jet college tours for all!
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sorta stupid since they don't need a degree to get a job
I'm sure for the right price they could just buy their degree and skip those inconvenient four years of studying.
They'll choose whichever college muslimkenyangay emperor obama decrees the cheapest for the fsa comrades.
For a moment, nailgunnin4you, I thought you were not a shill. Noted.
Ain't life Rand?
Actually, pretty much. Rand sums up this article pretty well.
Yes, it should be made available to all.......It's only fair
Go fuck yourself. The point is not that everyone should have a private jet. It's that we're all fucked because a tiny percentage of the population have all the wealth.
Son to Dad: "Gee, Dad, we're so high up in this jet that everyone down there looks like ants."
Dad to son: "They are ants my Son."
University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. I'm sorry, not exactly an elite school.
relax marx
Jumping in the thread here, sorry.
In a prior life I sometimes managed volunteers for a nonprofit organization. It was near one of the schools listed, so we would get groups from there sometimes. The work was out doors dirty and could involve a machine as simple as a lawn mower. I had never met adults in their 20's who had NEVER used a lawn mower and did not even have the slightest idea of who to start one... Any of them. I doubt any of them had ever held a shovel in their own hands. I did this job for 8 years so I saw this on many occasions. It is how they live.
Through hard work and honesty you, too, can fly your own private jet.
Or maybe not.
The obvious point is not mentioned - namely Daddy pays.
The word for those people is "lunch". If the shit turn bad, there will be no one willing to coddle and take care of them. They will be useless.
One needs a higher education to properly worship Satan.
thanks for the laugh
"Paging Andreas Lubitz, your next"...uh, he's no longer with us sir. Ok just get the next one in line
They don't need no education, they need connections.
I thought college was about drugs, sex, and indroctrination.
Those are the distractions from the fact that you signed Promissary Notes for $30,000+ in Student Loans at 6.8%
The Degree is not the intended purpose of the "education".
The real purpopse is the same reason why those with connections ensure their offspring go to the likes of the Oxbridge group, not to gain an "education", but to gain and develop connections with the offspring of those of (similar) influence.
Education's irrelevant now (since the Internet provides pretty reliable education / information on a truly vast range of topics). Today's "education" is all about making the right connections, and the ability to afford this type of service (and be seen to be able to afford this service) is all part of preparation. These are not competing for University spaces - these are the "students" over whom the Universities themselves must compete - since these "students" bring far, far more to the table than any others, and be assured the University hierarchies are fully aware of this.
I thought the connected were already connected at places like Groton, Choate, Deerfield.
There are two Harvards - one for the already connnected, the other for grinds who might wish to become connected but most probably won't.
You might go so far as to say that in the USA, you are born connected or you are one of those ants.
I've heard about this before. It's called a caste system.
America is the land of denial. We have a king but call him president. We have a caste system but call it class in a free market. We have no respect for life but we talk about how good we are.
Not stupid as they need to believe they are better than others which includes an education others are not able to afford. Without it their selfworth would be shitty and their scoffs would not be convincing.
Wow
Let them eat jet!
The banksters need to repay us.
I stand with Menger.
One wonders how these young impressionable minds develop into the sociopaths that expect everything to be handed to them.
Do the institutions in question really teach anything? Advanced degrees in validated exceptionalism, tolerated cheating for profit and prestige, self agrandizement and entitlement, for future CEOs that couldn't give a fuck less about the peons that they order around and hire or fire by the thousands, that they give richer off of or replace with foreigners or robots in part because they have had no associative experiences even in the private secondary and post secondary education systems?
Blowing more money than most 'good' college educations cost just on flying around eating brownies and watching porn and cartoons sounds like a wonderful way to prep for admissions..
"Do the institutions in question really teach anything?"
No, but how much value do you place on making new connections?
High class hooker croaks in your hotel room - Brock knows a guy who can clean that shit up.
Cops getting close to your pedo ring? Good thing you pledged with the new deputy director.
God forbid they study something useful like mathematics or engineering.
It is no different to the "wholly unexpected" outcomes of enforcing "School Zones". Remembering how we actually learn (consciously and subconsciously), I often wonder how the "Educationalists" managed to completely overlook the effects of "programming" school-age children with the knowledge that they have "Special Rights" over other road users.
Create an "Entitlement, Special Rights" mindset as a result of years of "training", and we wonder just why the accident rate is so very high in these entry-level drivers . . . . . .
Sure picked a real hell hole to fly out of. Indiana Jones almost died trying to land there. Maybe they wanted to stock up at the Vallarta Market with a few burritos before lift off or get a quick nine in at the sensational Van Nuys Golf course and see where Q99X2 learned how to hit a golf ball and other golfers. Perhaps it was the scent of the reclaimed sewege "Lake Balboa" that brought them in like the canadian geese that often frequent there.
You obviously don't know shit about US General Aviation airports....
These children don't "choose their college" nor do they choose to go to hell; they're usually given a hand by their handlers who call themselves "Mother" or "Father" or "Just call me 'John' in public, you little shit."
Where'd I put my MANPAD?
"It seems to us that everyone should have this opportunity - free private-jet college tours for all!"
“Follow the rules exactly.”
While imprisoned in the gulags of Soviet Russia, Vladimir Bukovsky discovered that because of inter-bureaucratic rivalry and competition, complaints filed by the prisoners had to be taken very seriously. Not regarding the complaint itself, but the handling of the complaint form and its flow through the system.
So he started an "industry" of complaint writing by him and his fellow prisoners. Eventually this produced such a mess that the bureaucracy and bureaucrats basically said "uncle," and allowed for certain reforms.
My point is, such a kernel of resistance exists in the top bolded quote. All should use the existing statutes that are in place to plunder us, to tie them up, with complaints and suits, in a system destroying mess--sue them for everything possible. RICO, equality, access, taxes, pollution, civil rights, etc. Everything. Their codes of plunder are thousands and thousands of pages long, so the sky is the limit.
Of course you won't win in Zion's courts, but every filing is a small win, a drop, but millions of wins will cause a deluge.
The banksters need to repay us.
I stand with Kelly Thomas.
$4300/hr for a jew canoe? Fuck that. Galaxy's suck, im sure theres better deals.
...Makes me want a 40mm Bofors....Skeet with a Gulfstream loaded with Yuppie Larva?...sign me up...
These little fops can't beat my college road trips in a 350 '68 Mustang.
The advertised price includes hookers and blow, right?
Nano jet
The kid must be kind of a dumb fuck... those are all pretty second-rate colleges.
How much dumber than George W Bush can anyone get? The parents are not rich enough to buy a seat in a better university.
And yet W could fly a jet fighter...
Can you?
Look it up, he did not fly the fighter, he was in the copilot seat of a 4 seater with the bodyguard and spare pilot in the back. If he had flown we would not have had the pleasure of his company for so long.
Understand that, when the rich go to college, it is to help legitimize wealth that they already have. It's not about getting a job, as should be obvious.
If i am not mistaken, that looks exactly like the douchebag express.
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Surely, a sign of the top.
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For a few dollars more Elon Musk will take you there in his soft-landing rockets.
This will end badly
But....I thought everyone selected their college this way, isn't that what student loans are for?
That is a luxury most high school seniors around the world cannot even dream of.
If they cannot dream of it, then their high schools have failed, que no?
Didn't realise the job of high schools is to teach people to dream stupid unrealistic dreams and then get frustrated when their dreams remain mere dreams and start envying everyone who has more than them.
The US seems to have done a fanastic job in this high school "education". But I am glad I don't live there.
"The US seems to have done a fanastic job in this high school "education". But I am glad I don't live there."
Your above statement does indeed prove thbat you do not live here. Public high schools in the US are mostly day care for teenagers. I live in Florida, which always ranks near the bottom of the states public school systems, and if you love your children..........you do not send them to puclic school here.
I hate to say this but only the bottom-feeders do this. The real money have their own corporate jets fly the little shits around to the different colleges at zero personal costs to themselves. Years ago I was a corporate pilot in Greensboro, NC, and hauled around the daughter of the company president to different schools. After a week on the road it was a real pleasure to haul MIss Stupid Rich all over the east coast on the weekends for several months.
All these little shits are completing prep school as well. You really know what you are buying at a super-expensive prep school? You are buying an extremely high grade-point average for your kid that the elite colleges can use as a "cover" when they pretend to accept the little bastard on merit alone. Ha! Unless he burns down a dorm with kids in it he is guaranteed a 4.0 average.
The interior shot is of the tricked-out corporate version of an Embraer commuter jet. Hillary demands a much larger and much more plush top-of-the-line Grumman Gulfstream business jet for her travels to her speaking engagements. And she will not accept anything else. Seriously.
Hillary demands a much larger and much more plush top-of-the-line Grumman Gulfstream business jet for her travels to her speaking engagements. And she will not accept anything else. Seriously.
Other than this proving her spew about being for the "common people" is nothing more than bullshit, I for one could give a flying fuck (pun intended) what Hi-LIAR-y does or says . . . . .
Introducing: your future elected officials.
To hell with the jet thing, have the parents donate about $10 million, guess what? their kid is in....without so much as leaving the house or filling out applications....
Plus they're all shit schools.
Ok, they are richer than me...why should I care?
A real economy could afford to give everybody a higher education. Ironically, in a real economy most people don’t need to go to college. A real economy would tax unearned income.
What percentage of U.S was college educated in years between 1700 and 1900? In 1700 U.S. still used square rigged sailing ships and plows not much different than the Romans. By 1900…only 200 years later, a continent was conquered and much of the modern age had been started. The people of that era were mostly uneducated American’s pushing the world forward. How? It was their freedom and being enabled to keep their labor value, for the most part. Those American’s weren’t harnessed to Oligarchy. As bad as Gold is as a money system, during that era it came out of the ground as seigniorage and was then monetized. Treasury money also was printed as seigniorage, and hence most of the money supply was not bank credit.
The economics system matters a hell of a lot more than college. College really doesn’t matter … it is just an expensive IQ test. Most of the skills needed for modern economies can be done with apprenticeships or within industry. That said, we could still easily afford college if the economy worked right. Canada 1938-74 proves the case.
In WW2, how many were college educated worldwide? Yet, a host of inventions came forth including radar, jet engines, new kinds of fuels, metallurgy, the atomic age, etc.
The stupid rich are enjoying their welfare transfers; these are transfers from the middle class especially. The rich have unearned income. The poor get transfers from the middle class too. Transfers of wealth are hidden in prices. Finance especially, via credit money usury, and swaps and insurance of various schemes, takes about 40%. Prices go up because of our high costs, high friction money, monopoly, unearned income, and various rent schemes. It is pervasive, even credit cards make prices go up, thus enriching a small class of bankers, when we could easily be using real zero cost money.
Really NOT the schools I expected to see on a list like this 0.o Their kid isn't in real high demand apparently...I'm guessing Northwestern was a long shot to be admitted.
And hell, they flew right over where I work. And didn't even come in to say high...I could have done my best impression of the coach on Johnny Be Good romantically talking up the virtues of "old State U" too... ;-)
Really NOT the schools I expected to see on a list..
I know, even Bob Jones Christian College didn't make it! lol