Because fundamentally, the SFIS students never made it to the big stage.
Students from those 985 elite universities rarely show off their wealth, but their campuses teem with the offspring of top-tier tycoons and children of high-level officials.
What about the School of International Cultural Exchange?
Tuition starts at 40,000 a year and can go up to more than 60,000. At first glance, it seems rather terrifying, as if all the students are incredibly wealthy. But this doesn't hold up under closer scrutiny.
Han Lie knew exactly what kind of students SFIS really attracted.
Nothing more than nouveau riche, second-generation demolition beneficiaries, local upstarts, and new money families that had just recently come into wealth.
Net assets ranged between several million to tens of millions—a few exceptions aside.
The reason was simple—truly capable families had paved the way for their children long before high school.
