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Everyone else = Plebeian
Plebeians were not members of the Roman Senate, as they were originally excluded from public office and the Senate. Plebeians were the majority of the Roman population and were generally poor. They were allowed to serve in the army, including as military tribunes, but were not allowed to marry patricians or hold any other public office.
The Roman Senate was made up of members from the leading patrician families during the republic. However, From the mid-4th century to the early 3rd century BC, several plebeian–patrician "tickets" for the consulship repeated joint terms, suggesting a deliberate political strategy of cooperation, in general a plebeian who had attained the consulship was regarded as having brought nobility to his family. Such a man was a novus homo, a "new man" or self-made noble and his sons and descendants were nobiles.
Marius and Cicero are notable examples of novi homines in the late Republic, when many of Rome's richest and most powerful men—such as Lucullus, Crassus, and Pompeius—were plebeian nobles. So to summarise, that is basically the difference between T1 NLU grads and everyone else, but many people can rise up in ranks with determination and servitude, and you can too, join the NLUs, rub shoulders with them- just stop being a pleb.