19 People Who Attended "Rich Kid" Schools Confessed What It Was Really Like, And I Am Shocked By 99% Of These

We recently asked people who've attended elite "rich kid" schools to tell us what their experience was like, and the responses had me like this:

Here's what they had to say:

1. "I don't live in the US, but I do go to one of the de facto 'rich kids schools' in my country. I could tell you a million stories, but here is my favorite: Someone started a petition on Facebook and Instagram to have golf carts carry us around the parking lot because it is too far a walk. Someone else said that their dad could sponsor the service."

— emo_fries

2. "Our cafeteria was in a literal castle (the school building was on the grounds outside), and we were served by volunteer parents like we were at a 5-star restaurant. Real dishes and glass and tablecloths. The works. I didn't appreciate it at all, of course! I wanted to go to a 'normal' school."

3. "I only went because my mom was a teacher there, but we weren't allowed to publicly announce the valedictorian because so many rich kids wanted to be able to put that on their Ivy League applications that it used to get the valedictorian death threats or actually beaten up."

"Graduation speeches were done by kids in student government (which most kids didn't want to do since they interned at their parents' real political campaign offices) and guest speakers like NFL players and famous news anchors, etc."—Anonymous

4. "I went to a rich kid school in Florida, and there was a kid in the dorms whose family tried to move his personal chef in with him, claiming he'd starve if he didn't eat this chef's food seven days a week. They were willing and, more importantly, quite able to pay for a chef to live in the dorms cooking for this 13-year-old kid."

—Anonymous

5. "Our P.E. Curriculum included sailing lessons in the summer and field trips to Lake Tahoe for skiing in the winter. No dodgeball for us."

—Anonymous

6. "Kids' bodyguards and drivers have their own exit so that they don't block the passing of other cars (the school has many entrances). There are at least 12 cars there waiting for kids at all times."

7. "I was a scholarship kid at the local all-girls private Catholic school. I distinctly remember a girl deliberately crashing her brand-new Mercedes given to her after she got her license, because she had wanted a Cadillac."

—Anonymous

8. "We wore a shirt and tie every day, with sports coats in the winter. Seniors wore blazers with the school crest on them."

—Anonymous

9. "I didn't go to a 'rich kid' school in the US, but I graduated from this type of school in Asia. Once you were in the 6th grade (or above), the school would send out a list of places (different cities or regions within the country and neighboring countries), and each student could pick their top 3 destinations, list down 2-3 of their closest friends and then submitted this to the school. The school would then sort of match everyone, and there was this excitement and anxiousness for a few weeks because everyone wanted to know where they were assigned to and with whom. They'd post the final list and destinations of each student after a month or so."

"For 1-2 weeks (depending on your grade level), students would be gone, essentially going on 'vacation' to all these different places, but this happens during the school year. It was an awesome experience. I got to go on a safari twice, go river rafting, ride elephants, go to the beach, and so on with my closest friends, too. I want to add that in each of these annual trips, there is time designated for social work or charity. Students loved it."—Anonymous

10. "The school was and still is running on brown envelopes. I remember this one girl whose parents were super rich, and they paid the school to make her win the election of school president."

11. "I went to a rich school in upstate New York. Two of our four dining halls were sit-down restaurants with waiting tables, all included in the meal plan. One was formal attire only. Other standard things included – even in the most basic meal plan – were a full-time Michelin star sushi chef, Starbucks, and even an official Chobani cafe."

—Anonymous

12. "I went to an international school overseas for high school, and the trips we took were insane. Our junior year art class took a one-week trip to Paris, where we went around the city drawing and eating great food. We also went to many MUN conferences in places like Beijing, Moscow, Egypt, and more. We went on some archeological digs and safaris. It seemed very normal at the time and just what everyone did."

—Anonymous

13. "I went to a very upper-class university, and because of my family's name, I got tons of perks. That was super common at my college. Professors knew my family, who extend into the highest areas of government, and I got easy As. I didn't have to take certain finals if I didn't want to, and I got free passes on certain required graduation things that others needed."

— CraftQueen

14. "I did not attend a rich kids school, but I do teach at one. There are two parking lots. There's the teacher parking lot, which has normal cars like Hondas, Toyotas, and Subarus, and then there is the upper school parking lot. The amount of Teslas, Porsches, and BMW's I see is enough to make me lose faith in humanity. They are all being driven by 16 or 17 year olds."

"What makes matters worse is that they have two cars. There's a winter car and a spring-fall car. None of these kids do any offerings, but I guess it looks cool. I am proud to say I have never bought a brand-new car. Rocking my secondhand car with pride."—Anonymous

15. "Everybody was expected to buy a class ring their junior year, and if you were caught not wearing it, you would be hazed. Mind you, the ring cost over $500."

—Anonymous

16. "I attended The American School in Switzerland (TASIS). Every January, the entire school relocated to St. Moritz, where ski lessons were mandatory in the morning, and the afternoons were free to ski as you wished."

17. "My sister went to a prep school, and they had really cool projects each year. The most memorable one for me was their junior year when they were basically left alone in the woods for a week and had to fend for themselves. They did tons of preparation for this, obviously, but I always thought a week alone in the Maine woods for rich kids sounded simultaneously amazing and hilarious!"

—Anonymous

18. "Our small private college would have open bars at any event that had alumni or the college leadership and donors present. Open bar, never checking IDs, expensive top-shelf liquor, and aged wines."

—Anonymous

And finally...

19. "I taught at a rich kid elementary school for one year. Was forced to change students' grades because what they earned wasn't 'the kind of number the parents were used to their child receiving.' This included a student who missed numerous classes of mine because mom wanted to spend that time with her baby. This was 5th grade."

—Anonymous

If you've attended (or taught) at an elite "rich kid" school, we want to hear about your experience in the comments below or via this anonymous Google form .

Responses have been edited for length/clarity.