"She Used A Birkin As Her Book Bag": People Are Sharing Infuriating Stories About Out-Of-Touch Rich Students At Their Expensive Schools

Recently, I asked the BuzzFeed Community to tell us about the most entitled rich students they've ever met. The stories they shared are so ridiculous, I can't believe I lived on the same planet as these wealthy students. Here's what they had to say.

1."Our dorms were typical freshman dorms: small, basic, and concrete. This dude tiled his floor with marble tiles and brought two columns next to his shitty wood-frame twin bed. Like, small Roman columns. He also had professional drapes made. He tried to bring in a different bed, but they wouldn't allow it. He also posted photos outside his door from a professional shoot he had done before he came to the school of him shirtless, climbing around in a tree. It was a trip."

2."I went to boarding school with a major hotel chain heir and walked him through how to use theater shop tools. It started with him not knowing how to use a drill. He thought you put the screw where the drill bit goes. When vacuuming the space, he turned on the shop vac and let the end wave on the floor. He didn't understand that you needed to point it at the areas needing vacuuming. I about lost my mind when I came back, and he was just watching it like a wacky wavy inflatable arm man."

— anonymous

3."All the rich kids at my private university were out-of-state students, so the already expensive tuition was doubled. They all wore expensive clothing. Most of the guys wore a lot of Vineyard Vines. None of them worked while in school. I overheard several conversations about casually going overseas for the summer. Despite living on campus, they would also park their Teslas and BMWs in the commuter spots because they didn’t care about tickets."

4."I worked at an international boarding school and lived in the senior dorm. One night when I was making the rounds, a student asked for help completing her college application. I asked what she needed help with. She said the application asked for her parents’ annual income, and there weren’t enough spaces to write the number. I told her to fill the spaces with all 9’s."

5."One student had a weekly order of new towels delivered to the school to replace the previous weekly batch, which she threw away until our housemother advised her to donate them to the supply room for those who forgot to pack towels. Another student misplaced her laptop and had a new laptop delivered to school hours later. She gave it away when she found it later. This happened maybe three times."

"And another student had two bodyguards accompanying him wherever he went. One sat near him in the classroom, with the other outside the door. Due to school policies, the guards weren't allowed on a dorm floor or changing rooms, so his parents rented a house on the school premises for him and his guards. He hated that he couldn't live in a dorm with his best mates."

—superkay

6."My freshman year, when FAFSA opened, I reminded my friends to submit theirs, and NONE of them knew what I was talking about. Everyone from my high school submitted FAFSA and got money. I was shocked to find out their parents paid out of pocket."

7."At Cornell, I knew a guy who opened a new pair of Calvin Klein boxer briefs daily and wore them out of the package. He threw them out at the end of the day because he didn't like the idea of anyone washing his underwear. His fraternity would go through his garbage to grab and keep his once-used boxers. I'm convinced the South Park 'Collect Underpants, Profit' meme is about him."

— anonymous

8."There was an extremely awkward girl who dressed like an elderly librarian, had glasses, and always wore her hair in a long braid — not knocking her style, just describing how normal and unassuming she looked. Our school was kind of different and was on a block schedule. We had one class at a time for three weeks, then a four-day break before beginning the next class. Toward the end of the year, I found out this girl had been going home every block break. Her family would send a driver to pick her up from campus, drive her to the airport an hour away, and fly her to Florida from Tennessee — every three weeks at least. Turns out, she was some heiress of an orange grove empire in Florida, and her parents were millionaires."

9."One of the guys from my dorm couldn't return home for a 3-day weekend, so we invited him to my family's house near the university. We lived in a ground-floor 3BR apartment in a three-story, 24-unit building. As we pulled up, he thought the entire building was our house because he lived in a huge estate in South Florida."

— anonymous

10."One of my friends crashed three cars in two years, and each time she got a brand new one (all Mercedes, of course). Going out to eat after school or on the weekend was never a quick fast food place. It was always a restaurant that was usually never less than $40 a person."

11."My philosophy teacher mentioned that one of her students had told her that imperialism was a good thing and that the countries Britain colonized should be grateful to us for 'civilizing' them. I was so glad to leave that place when I did."

12."I went to a private high school where the poor kids (aka me and not many others) had to do a 'work-study' for 4-6 weeks in the summer to earn our keep/work for our scholarships. We’d clean the high school, scraping gum off the desks, painting classrooms, and deep cleaning lockers. It was every day for 8 hours. Meanwhile, all the rich bitches were driving around in their expensive cars or enjoying summer breaks in Cancun."

13."In English Lit, we were discussing Shakespearean literature, and this student said that it reminded her of the dilemma that her family was having between purchasing a new Learjet and purchasing another house in Carmel."

— anonymous

14."In college, I remember one girl saying that she had to fly home to Cleveland every other weekend because there were no places that could do her nails up to her standard…we were in Chicago."

15."I overheard a girl making fun of another girl for wearing the same pair of jeans on a Friday and the following Monday. She kept saying that's disgusting."

—oldladyintraining

16."My freshman roommate lived on an estate with live-in tenants to care for her horses. One day I was reading this article aloud entitled '10 Private Islands You Can Buy for $250,000 or Less.' My roommate responded with, 'OMG, that is so wild. So, instead of buying a new car, you can get an island for almost the same price. While I was lucky enough to have a used car in college, the price tag of it was $5,000."

17."As a teacher, I was once asked where my chalet was. She thought that everyone had one."

18."Two students couldn't decide if Bali or Cabo was a better place to vacation. They were only first graders in a really expensive Catholic school, by the way."

— anonymous

19."I went to private school for high school, and usually it wasn’t too bad, but the rich kids were RICH. One girl went to Dubai for spring break and missed an extra week of school, and another girl complained how her parents couldn’t get first-class plane tickets so they could go see a taping of SNL. Like really!?!!"

20."I went to an all-girls college prep school in Pennsylvania. There were a LOT of out of touch students. On my first day at freshman orientation, one girl heard I was from Philadelphia and asked me, 'Is it true that everyone in Philadelphia is in a gang?' Sure. Everyone's in a gang, and all we do is kill each other. Then, sophomore year, one of my classmates turned 16, and as I was climbing on the bus, I saw her dad drive up in a brand new luxury car with a big red bow. She didn't even have her license yet."

21."Two idiots used to race their 4x4s to school, and both wrecked their cars TWICE and had them replaced almost immediately. They laughed about how wrecked their vehicles were and how they would do it again when they wanted an upgrade. Another time, I overheard in the common room, 'Which yacht are you taking to the Caribbean? Oh, the smaller one this time? Ew, are your parents punishing you or something?'"

— anonymous

22."I worked at 16 and rode the bus. My high school was next to Calabasas, and the kids all had a Benz, BMW, or Range Rover. I had a bus pass."

23."Whitney (named after Whitney Houston because her father, who owns several banks, was friends with the singer) was chatting with her school chums about her mega-mansion. She even had a 300 sq ft doll house in her bedroom. When asked if she had a swimming pool, Whitney replied, "Doesn't everybody?'"

— P in Arkansas

24."When he saw my 1998 Hyundai Accent, he asked, 'Why doesn't your father get you a new car? Mine got me a Maserati for coming here. He would only get me a BMW if I didn't attend college. Can you believe that?' He was genuinely shocked when the rest of us had to explain that not everyone's fathers could afford cars for their sons, much less a Maserati or BMW."

25."I heard this rich guy toss a $3,000 camera and partially damage the glass down a hundred-foot cliff 'for science.'"

— anonymous

26."I was a latchkey kid who grew up on food stamps and WIC, shopping at thrift stores once a year for school clothes and sometimes eating cinnamon toast for dinner three nights in a row. About two weeks before my freshman year, we moved to Tiburon (one of the richest towns in the country) due to a vacancy at a subsidized housing unit. Kids were being dropped off at school in limos or driving the brand new BMW 325i (at the age of 14). I think the biggest out-of-touch thing was getting a week off in the middle of February called ski week. It was a culture shock for sure."

27."In college, we had two places where we could buy food: one super cheap with horrible food, and the other a much more expensive fancy place where you had to pay for the weight of the food on your plate. My 'best friend' never had lunch with me because she thought the cheap food I ate was disgusting. She picked a fight with me because I would never have lunch with her and said if I were a good friend, I would eat less, so I could afford the fancy food at the expensive cafeteria. Yeah, we are no longer friends."

—lucianamvasconcelos

28."I didn't realize one of my best friends was extremely wealthy until I commented on the beautiful park in a photo, and she told me it was part of their backyard."

29."When I turned 16, my parents let me drive an old beater that we had had for over a decade and was 20 years old by the time I was given it as my 'first car.' A girl I went to school with was gifted a brand new Nissan Pathfinder (it was 1998), and when she flipped it 30 days after getting it, her parents just replaced it with a brand new Audi A4."

— anonymous

30."I went to fashion school. Most students were just rich kids who needed a degree in something but did not care about the program. One girl used a Birkin as her book bag, another had her father buy her an entire building in one of the wealthiest areas (she had an entire floor as her closet), and another was an actual princess."

31."One day, as I walked to class, I passed a group of girls, and one was lamenting that she had no money in her checking account. When she complained to her dad, he said, 'I just put $200 into your account last week!' She responded, 'I know, but I spent it all on tank tops.'"

32."This may seem relatively small, but I had one friend who would constantly lose her umbrella, and every time she forgot one, she would just buy a new one from whatever store was nearby."

—kennedywilliams

33."Chocolate phones were all the rage in sixth grade, and the iPhone just came out. A classmate proudly told all of us how she repeatedly threw her Chocolate at the wall until it broke so her parents would buy her an iPhone."

34."Two girls in my grade were caught smoking on campus. They were underage, and it was a smoke-free zone. One girl's family was wealthy, and her grandparents were on the Board of Education. The other girl was on a scholarship. Can you guess who only got detention and the other a whole week's suspension?"

—deadzy

What are some of the most out-of-touch things you heard from rich students and friends? Tell us in the comments.

Note: Some responses have been edited for length and/or clarity.