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How to Belong in Elite Spaces When You Weren't Born Into Them

I got into an Ivy League school but I'm terrified to go because I don't know which fork to use at dinner or how to talk to people who vacation in the Hamptons.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Institutional access doesn't automatically provide the cultural capital needed to navigate elite environments.

Ideas that help explain it
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