Maybe its different, but in America status means everything in highschool rather you're ltn or not.
And if you are popular amongst other men, you will be popular amongst other women, that's why its called "connections"
Highschool is literally just a social ladder that everyone follows subconsciously, you talk to other popular people and they talk to other popular people, its a cycle, and everyone gets to know eachother.
Status does = money, and there's literally no argument against that, you can think whatever you want but its simply just not true.
Imagine becoming the worlds first trillionaire, you are everywhere on the news, on the internet, everyone's hearing about you.