Does where you go to college actually matter?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:No. Not at all.

Maybe not Duke vs. Harvard or UVA vs. Duke, but you're saying it doesn't matter if you go to Harvard or Longwood? For real?

Longwood Average Salary After 10 Years
$43,200

Harvard Average Salary After 10 Years
$136,700

Who’s choosing between Harvard and Longwood? Serious question. If you can get into Harvard, you can get into a lot of schools that aren’t Harvard but that are “better” than Longwood.

So it does matter, within bands at least.

I should have clarified, I’m not the one who said “it does not matter. At all.” Obviously it does matter. But someone who can get into Harvard is likely to get into many other really good (better than Longwood) but maybe not elite schools, will get full tuition offers if they choose the right schools to apply to, and more.

[Anonymous]

PP here. Longwood and Harvard serve totally different markets and that is okay. Most of the kids at somewhere like Longwood aren’t go-getters, and the ones that are go-getters will shine through and end up being outliers in the avg salary stats with their higher salaries.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No. Not at all.

Maybe not Duke vs. Harvard or UVA vs. Duke, but you're saying it doesn't matter if you go to Harvard or Longwood? For real?

Longwood Average Salary After 10 Years
$43,200

Harvard Average Salary After 10 Years
$136,700

Who’s choosing between Harvard and Longwood? Serious question. If you can get into Harvard, you can get into a lot of schools that aren’t Harvard but that are “better” than Longwood.

So it does matter, within bands at least.

I should have clarified, I’m not the one who said “it does not matter. At all.” Obviously it does matter. But someone who can get into Harvard is likely to get into many other really good (better than Longwood) but maybe not elite schools, will get full tuition offers if they choose the right schools to apply to, and more.

Okay, so we all agree that it matters if you go to Harvard/UVA vs. Longwood/Radford, but it remains to be established if Harvard vs. UVA matters.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No. Not at all.

Maybe not Duke vs. Harvard or UVA vs. Duke, but you're saying it doesn't matter if you go to Harvard or Longwood? For real?

Longwood Average Salary After 10 Years
$43,200

Harvard Average Salary After 10 Years
$136,700

Who’s choosing between Harvard and Longwood? Serious question. If you can get into Harvard, you can get into a lot of schools that aren’t Harvard but that are “better” than Longwood.

So it does matter, within bands at least.

I should have clarified, I’m not the one who said “it does not matter. At all.” Obviously it does matter. But someone who can get into Harvard is likely to get into many other really good (better than Longwood) but maybe not elite schools, will get full tuition offers if they choose the right schools to apply to, and more.

Okay, so we all agree that it matters if you go to Harvard/UVA vs. Longwood/Radford, but it remains to be established if Harvard vs. UVA matters.

Yes, I agree with that.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No. Not at all.

Maybe not Duke vs. Harvard or UVA vs. Duke, but you're saying it doesn't matter if you go to Harvard or Longwood? For real?

Longwood Average Salary After 10 Years
$43,200

Harvard Average Salary After 10 Years
$136,700

Who’s choosing between Harvard and Longwood? Serious question. If you can get into Harvard, you can get into a lot of schools that aren’t Harvard but that are “better” than Longwood.

So it does matter, within bands at least.

I should have clarified, I’m not the one who said “it does not matter. At all.” Obviously it does matter. But someone who can get into Harvard is likely to get into many other really good (better than Longwood) but maybe not elite schools, will get full tuition offers if they choose the right schools to apply to, and more.

Okay, so we all agree that it matters if you go to Harvard/UVA vs. Longwood/Radford, but it remains to be established if Harvard vs. UVA matters.

You guys can say whatever you want but if I get admitted to Harvard and UVA, I’m picking Harvard. You do you and turn them both down for longwood

[Anonymous]

Local commuter shithole might hamstring you — but a smart kid will be fine at whatever top 100 university or top 100 LAC they attend. I firmly believe that. I’ve seen it happen over and over. This T25 or bust striver crap on every forum is written by insecure lunatics. I know dozens of rich families with extremely smart kids who didn’t give a damn about Ivies or even the state flagship U. They went to places like non selective LACs, SMU, Pepperdine or even non flagship state schools. They are all successful young professionals. Cream rises to the top.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No. Not at all.

Maybe not Duke vs. Harvard or UVA vs. Duke, but you're saying it doesn't matter if you go to Harvard or Longwood? For real?

Longwood Average Salary After 10 Years
$43,200

Harvard Average Salary After 10 Years
$136,700

Who’s choosing between Harvard and Longwood? Serious question. If you can get into Harvard, you can get into a lot of schools that aren’t Harvard but that are “better” than Longwood.

So it does matter, within bands at least.

I should have clarified, I’m not the one who said “it does not matter. At all.” Obviously it does matter. But someone who can get into Harvard is likely to get into many other really good (better than Longwood) but maybe not elite schools, will get full tuition offers if they choose the right schools to apply to, and more.

Okay, so we all agree that it matters if you go to Harvard/UVA vs. Longwood/Radford, but it remains to be established if Harvard vs. UVA matters.

You guys can say whatever you want but if I get admitted to Harvard and UVA, I’m picking Harvard. You do you and turn them both down for longwood

If you have the money, that is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Local commuter shithole might hamstring you — but a smart kid will be fine at whatever top 100 university or top 100 LAC they attend. I firmly believe that. I’ve seen it happen over and over. This T25 or bust striver crap on every forum is written by insecure lunatics. I know dozens of rich families with extremely smart kids who didn’t give a damn about Ivies or even the state flagship U. They went to places like non selective LACs, SMU, Pepperdine or even non flagship state schools. They are all successful young professionals. Cream rises to the top.

What about non rich kids, Buffy?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Didn’t Colin Jost attend Harvard while Michael Che grew up in the projects in N.Y.?

And they both have the same exact jobs. 🤣

Michael Che went to one of NY's prestigious application-only public high schools, which is an argument for the poster who said secondary eduction is more important.

Also, Colin Jost was a writer for SNL before he was a performer. Not many writers for NBC comedy are high school graduates-only (although I'm sure there have been a few).

Colin went to the most elite and selective high school in the nation - Regis in Manhattan. It is free for everyone if you get in.

[Anonymous]

Basically no one gets into Harvard anyway so I’m not going to lose sleep over it. I ooze mediocrity.

[Anonymous]

Being privately educated is being privately educated. Regardless of income.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:NO.

Unless -

1. You wanted to specifically be with a certain organization in the legal, medical or academic profession where the name of your education is paramount
2. You wanted to start in management v. work your way up in which case you go get your MBA from a top B school
3. You wanted to specifically open up networking opportunities at a school - ie you wanted specifically to work for a company that you know does college recruiting out of that school
4. You want to work within corporate finance or CIA/Foreign Service/public sector organization that college recruits specifically from a list of preferred top schools

Otherwise it does not matter where you go to college, from a community college to a college that nobody's heard of -

1. You can absolutely work your way to the top in almost any field.
2. You can absolutely be happy and successful in any industry.
3. You can absolutely earn a TON of money by being successful in your industry. Better yet, own your own business and hire people out of the college you want!
4. You can absolutely be a smart, good or educated person and even all three to boot!

- Signed, a VP of Talent Acquisition, with 20+ years of experience hiring in tech, finance and sales/marketing industries for corporate F100 global and national companies. I have recruited both Harvard MBA morons who despite whatever title they had will always be moron and can't write a resume, and highly motivated, street smart and hard worker community college grads who became C level executives

Bringing this Back. This person makes the most sense out of anybody on this board. It’s so obvious who had the I really go to Quetion here. Their justifying themselves way too much. I trust somebody who actually hires people vs somebody who thinks they should be hired.

Absolutely. It only matters in a certain situations. Otherwise, no one cares where you went to school if you are competent, intelligent, work hard — and having a good personality goes a long way.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Being privately educated is being privately educated. Regardless of income.

No it isn’t. There are crappy private universities and amazing public ones.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:No. Not at all.

Maybe not Duke vs. Harvard or UVA vs. Duke, but you're saying it doesn't matter if you go to Harvard or Longwood? For real?

Longwood Average Salary After 10 Years
$43,200

Harvard Average Salary After 10 Years
$136,700

Haha! We look at this in the stats class I teach. Here you want to be looking at modal and not mean salary. At least some of the reason the mean is so high for Harvard is because a few individuals (like gates and sucked beef) end up skewing the mean. It's also high because of people who work in family businesses who are overpaid for their services by wealthy parents, including wealthy overseas families. This number is not a guarantee that YOU will make this salary if you are just a regular Joe.

[Anonymous]

Zuckerberg not sucked beef. Thanks autocorrect!