Sentence examples for rich classmates from inspiring English sources

At the same time Harvard is trying to tap those rich classmates' parents for large gifts.

"He was not the least bit snobby," said Rick Kessler, a scholarship student at St. George's who said he became quite attuned to the tone of condescension from rich classmates.

I understood that my life would look nothing like the lives of my rich classmates, who were poised for business, medicine, or law – avenues that required connections and expensive professional degrees.

All of this also influenced him: one coach who inspired him and the other who did not, the rich classmates from Star Island, the Cubans he befriended, the long bus rides, the opportunities Liberty City lacked, the sometimes cold reception back in the old neighborhood.

On "Gossip Girl" a middle-class student at a snobby private school has to make his way past the wealth and privilege of his super-rich classmates.

It will be hard to shift students' focus away from their richest classmates.

The document shows that, at age four, 44% of children eligible for free school meals - a key measure of poverty - are reaching the standard of achievement expected for their age group, compared with 62% of their richer classmates.

This meant that 90,000 more pupils are leaving primary school with a good grounding in these three key subjects, compared with 2010, the DfE said, adding that the difference in performance between the poorest pupils and their richer classmates was continuing to close.

The Barnado's study cites research which shows that children from poorer families are half as likely to get five good GCSE grades as their richer classmates.

Mr. Beane said that golf-club & rich-classmates contacts are a thing of the past; they now sell 10 and 20 stocks to a lot of people, and feel that the broadening of stock ownership is a very good thing.

But "Beautiful People" (the title refers to Sophie's rich, fabulous classmates) seems to have been written by somebody who spent a week in New York once and passed a private school in a taxi.