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They're West coast. "Elite" schools in the U.S. are typically East coast (old monied).

Just want to point out that “old money” in the USA is a different thing than “old money” in Europe. The whole USA is only around 350 years old.

Some of the American old money came from European old money.

Very, very few. Those were mostly loyalists and left in 1776.