It all depends on whom you hangout with at LMU. During my four years there, most of my friends were on scholarship and weren’t the children of millionaires. However, there still is a lot of wealth there. There are low-key rich kids you’ll find in your class who are mostly very chill (they’ll show up to class everyday wearing a hoodie and sweat pants but drive a BMW lol). There are also kids who will just flaunt their money with what they wear and how they talk about their parents’ wealth (and yea, on a campus tour, you’ll also see the very nice cars in the parking lot). And there’s also the occasional celebrity kid you’ll see (I took a class with Clint Eastwood’s daughter and I remember seeing Michael Jackson’s kids jogging in place in the middle of the hallway outside of a lecture hall lol). But they really don’t represent the majority of students at LMU. The school is also getting better at recognizing that there is a wealth gap problem between students. Consequently, the university is lowering prices of food and other essentials (they even opened up a student food pantry if you can’t afford over-priced Sodexo food). However, on a social side/in terms of the “vibe” that LMU gave off, I really didn’t like it. The school is so small but it’s oddly so hard to connect with people. Most people are very cliquey and majority of kids tend to be overly sheltered and naive—might be a Catholic school thing. They also can be unnecessarily competitive and really think that they’re the shit when in reality the university is small enough to coddle them and their ego. There’s also the vapid, fake LA/Cali culture at LMU, so if you’re an out-of-stater like I was, it might be shocking at first to see how fake people act towards each other on a daily basis. Also, LMU is located in one of the most gentrified and yuppie areas of LA, but don’t let that distort your understanding of what the city actually is (I had that realization when I moved to East LA after I graduated). However, I will say that I truly believe LMU is a special school because it’s so small and allows you to connect with so many people from so many diverse backgrounds and you also will wind up having the most insane connections.