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By mid-career, where you went to school means squat in your life and earnings. The richest physician I know went to Brooklyn Medical College. The richest businessman I know never went to grad school and graduated from the University of Hartford.
Sure you get some athletes, legacies, and persons of color at top Ivys, but the rest of the class is made up of the winners of the world-wide genetic lottery. Would you rather spend 4 years of your life surrounded by extremely bright people or average people? There is a reason kids don't turn down a Princeton acceptance to attend Boston College...Originally Posted by Pennglock
The prestige at these schools exists for a reason. Even at a ****** Ivy like Cornell, the education is an order of magnitude better than a top public like Berkeley.
Fortunately, earning potential is the best and most reliable mesaure of a man's worth...
But are "networking," "future earnings," and "Job prospects" all that college is supposed to grant these days? What about knowledge and learning for its own sake, life experiences, intellectual stimulation and the chance to explore all of those things for four years?Originally Posted by Augusto
has the relative prestige (or lack of) of your university's name benefited you? This can be in terms of employment, applying to grad school, social bragging, whatever.
Sure you get some athletes, legacies, and persons of color at top Ivys, but the rest of the class is made up of the winners of the world-wide genetic lottery. Would you rather spend 4 years of your life surrounded by extremely bright people or average people? There is a reason kids don't turn down a Princeton acceptance to attend Boston College...
One of these things is not like the other...
Whether people like to admit it or not, its true that, on average, grads of prestigious schools are more successfull than grads of XYZ college. I'm sure we can all cite people we know who are rich and respected and went to same random no-name school, but they are the exception.