My child attends an elite college. It is overrated.

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Anonymous wrote:On the flip side, I work in finance and I routinely come across very highly paid people (high six or seven figures) who did not go to “top” colleges.

I’m Gen X but even most of the millennials we employ don’t come from tippy top colleges. Some do but most don’t.

So I’m always wondering why my experience of the world is so different from what “they” say. I made over 800k last year. I consider myself to be Avery successful. No one cares where I went to college.

Money isn’t everything.

I don’t think anyone is saying that money = success. It’s more about prestige of institutions. Ie do you work for a FAANG or Goldman Sachs, etc.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Elite colleges are overrated! We live in Montgomery County. We are surrounded by neighbors who went to Ivy Leagues, HYP, Duke , etc. None of them are any different from those who didn’t go to fancy colleges. Their lifestyle is not any better than other neighbors who went to state schools or no name schools. They work at the same places, go to the same restaurants, shop at the same stores. There is no difference. Plus there isn’t anything remotely impressive about the neighbors who went to fancy schools. Stop this nonsense about elitism and grow up!

Agree, PP. there was an interesting thread a while back where an OP asked people to respond with the name of the college attended by the richest person they know. Schools were all over the map. In our case the answer is University of Miami (neighbor of ours in MoCo).

People who say schools don’t matter would never consider CC - for themselves or their kids. If schools truly don’t matter, we should have more CC grads on here extolling the virtues of lost-cost CC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:On the flip side, I work in finance and I routinely come across very highly paid people (high six or seven figures) who did not go to “top” colleges.

I’m Gen X but even most of the millennials we employ don’t come from tippy top colleges. Some do but most don’t.

So I’m always wondering why my experience of the world is so different from what “they” say. I made over 800k last year. I consider myself to be Avery successful. No one cares where I went to college.

because the best from those schools are choosing Silicon Valley over finance. There was a time when they chose finance, and there was a time when they chose very large corporations.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:On the flip side, I work in finance and I routinely come across very highly paid people (high six or seven figures) who did not go to “top” colleges.

I’m Gen X but even most of the millennials we employ don’t come from tippy top colleges. Some do but most don’t.

So I’m always wondering why my experience of the world is so different from what “they” say. I made over 800k last year. I consider myself to be Avery successful. No one cares where I went to college.

Money isn’t everything.

I don’t think anyone is saying that money = success. It’s more about prestige of institutions. Ie do you work for a FAANG or Goldman Sachs, etc.

Lol. My kid just turned down one of the FAANGs and GS. Life is more important than “prestige.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:On the flip side, I work in finance and I routinely come across very highly paid people (high six or seven figures) who did not go to “top” colleges.

I’m Gen X but even most of the millennials we employ don’t come from tippy top colleges. Some do but most don’t.

So I’m always wondering why my experience of the world is so different from what “they” say. I made over 800k last year. I consider myself to be Avery successful. No one cares where I went to college.

Money isn’t everything.

I don’t think anyone is saying that money = success. It’s more about prestige of institutions. Ie do you work for a FAANG or Goldman Sachs, etc.

Lol

Only very naive people say money isn’t everything. And you have no idea where that person works. I highly doubt she wants to out herself by saying.

[Anonymous]

"over-rated" = "not a good fit for my kid"

No college is a good fit for every smart kid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:On the flip side, I work in finance and I routinely come across very highly paid people (high six or seven figures) who did not go to “top” colleges.

I’m Gen X but even most of the millennials we employ don’t come from tippy top colleges. Some do but most don’t.

So I’m always wondering why my experience of the world is so different from what “they” say. I made over 800k last year. I consider myself to be Avery successful. No one cares where I went to college.

Money isn’t everything.

I don’t think anyone is saying that money = success. It’s more about prestige of institutions. Ie do you work for a FAANG or Goldman Sachs, etc.

Lol. My kid just turned down one of the FAANGs and GS. Life is more important than “prestige.”

Why did your kid apply if that wasn’t appealing in the first place?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:On the flip side, I work in finance and I routinely come across very highly paid people (high six or seven figures) who did not go to “top” colleges.

I’m Gen X but even most of the millennials we employ don’t come from tippy top colleges. Some do but most don’t.

So I’m always wondering why my experience of the world is so different from what “they” say. I made over 800k last year. I consider myself to be Avery successful. No one cares where I went to college.

Money isn’t everything.

I don’t think anyone is saying that money = success. It’s more about prestige of institutions. Ie do you work for a FAANG or Goldman Sachs, etc.

So whats the difference then? Some people think money defines success and you think success means working FOR a fancy company? Shallow people are shallow. Did you ever work for Goldman Sachs or any such company? Do you know what the burn out rate of the young grads who work there is? Why would you want that for your kid? Why would you put your kids in a rate race knowingly?? There is no end to this cycle? Fancy college->fancy company-> promotions->partner etc etc.. it does'nt end.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:On the flip side, I work in finance and I routinely come across very highly paid people (high six or seven figures) who did not go to “top” colleges.

I’m Gen X but even most of the millennials we employ don’t come from tippy top colleges. Some do but most don’t.

So I’m always wondering why my experience of the world is so different from what “they” say. I made over 800k last year. I consider myself to be Avery successful. No one cares where I went to college.

Money isn’t everything.

I don’t think anyone is saying that money = success. It’s more about prestige of institutions. Ie do you work for a FAANG or Goldman Sachs, etc.

Lol. My kid just turned down one of the FAANGs and GS. Life is more important than “prestige.”

Why did your kid apply if that wasn’t appealing in the first place?

FAANG, bc that’s where the jobs are. When you are looking for work, you go where the jobs are. Nothing wrong with GS. My kid had several options after casting as wide net.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:On the flip side, I work in finance and I routinely come across very highly paid people (high six or seven figures) who did not go to “top” colleges.

I’m Gen X but even most of the millennials we employ don’t come from tippy top colleges. Some do but most don’t.

So I’m always wondering why my experience of the world is so different from what “they” say. I made over 800k last year. I consider myself to be Avery successful. No one cares where I went to college.

Money isn’t everything.

I don’t think anyone is saying that money = success. It’s more about prestige of institutions. Ie do you work for a FAANG or Goldman Sachs, etc.

So whats the difference then? Some people think money defines success and you think success means working FOR a fancy company? Shallow people are shallow. Did you ever work for Goldman Sachs or any such company? Do you know what the burn out rate of the young grads who work there is? Why would you want that for your kid? Why would you put your kids in a rate race knowingly?? There is no end to this cycle? Fancy college->fancy company-> promotions->partner etc etc.. it does'nt end.

I’d rather have money and a slower paced life, tbh.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The Unibomber went to Harvard. Just sayin’

too true!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:On the flip side, I work in finance and I routinely come across very highly paid people (high six or seven figures) who did not go to “top” colleges.

I’m Gen X but even most of the millennials we employ don’t come from tippy top colleges. Some do but most don’t.

So I’m always wondering why my experience of the world is so different from what “they” say. I made over 800k last year. I consider myself to be Avery successful. No one cares where I went to college.

But do you want to chat with people in the high $ party you are going that you spent 4 years of your youth at Harvard or you went to Podunk University?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Unibomber went to Harvard. Just sayin’

too true!

And Trump went to UPenn. Just sayin’.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:On the flip side, I work in finance and I routinely come across very highly paid people (high six or seven figures) who did not go to “top” colleges.

I’m Gen X but even most of the millennials we employ don’t come from tippy top colleges. Some do but most don’t.

So I’m always wondering why my experience of the world is so different from what “they” say. I made over 800k last year. I consider myself to be Avery successful. No one cares where I went to college.

But do you want to chat with people in the high $ party you are going that you spent 4 years of your youth at Harvard or you went to Podunk University?

What kinds of parties do you go to where people ask that??

I haven’t been asked about college in years. I’m in my 40s.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:On the flip side, I work in finance and I routinely come across very highly paid people (high six or seven figures) who did not go to “top” colleges.

I’m Gen X but even most of the millennials we employ don’t come from tippy top colleges. Some do but most don’t.

So I’m always wondering why my experience of the world is so different from what “they” say. I made over 800k last year. I consider myself to be Avery successful. No one cares where I went to college.

But do you want to chat with people in the high $ party you are going that you spent 4 years of your youth at Harvard or you went to Podunk University?

What utter nonsense! No one cares where you went to college and it doesn’t even come up in conversations.