Does where you go to college actually matter?

[Anonymous]

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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

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.

This. It’s also a false dichotomy—no one is choosing between Harvard and Longwood. It would be better exercise to compare Longwood to JMU or Radford or CNU, or Harvard to Notre Dame. Radford and Harvard both serve separate, important purposes.

[Anonymous]

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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?

Go to the local public university and study engineering or computer science — or nursing, accounting, teaching. Poor kids generally don’t become investment bankers most poor families don’t comprehend or care about investment banking or dream of living in Manhattan.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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?

Go to the local public university and study engineering or computer science — or nursing, accounting, teaching. Poor
kids generally don’t become investment bankers most poor families don’t comprehend or care about investment banking or dream of living in Manhattan.

Actually studies show poor kids get the most marginal benefit of going to a top school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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?

Go to the local public university and study engineering or computer science — or nursing, accounting, teaching. Poor
kids generally don’t become investment bankers most poor families don’t comprehend or care about investment banking or dream of living in Manhattan.

Actually studies show poor kids get the most marginal benefit of going to a top school.

Buffy is trying to keep the po folks down.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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?

Go to the local public university and study engineering or computer science — or nursing, accounting, teaching. Poor kids generally don’t become investment bankers most poor families don’t comprehend or care about investment banking or dream of living in Manhattan.

Nurses, teachers and accountants aren’t setting the world on fire. They’re not developing life-saving drugs or becoming policymakers.

—a CPA

[Anonymous]

I know underemployed Columbia, Princeton, and Vandy grads. It's no reflection on these schools. There will always be people who are unlucky no matter how prepared they are.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I know underemployed Columbia, Princeton, and Vandy grads. It's no reflection on these schools. There will always be people who are unlucky no matter how prepared they are.

Underemployed Columbia or Princeton means HHI < $200,000.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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?

Go to the local public university and study engineering or computer science — or nursing, accounting, teaching. Poor kids generally don’t become investment bankers most poor families don’t comprehend or care about investment banking or dream of living in Manhattan.

Nurses, teachers and accountants aren’t setting the world on fire. They’re not developing life-saving drugs or becoming policymakers.

—a CPA

.

Are you kidding me? CPA is the most boring job out there. And they are considered the bottom feeders of finance.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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?

Go to the local public university and study engineering or computer science — or nursing, accounting, teaching. Poor kids generally don’t become investment bankers most poor families don’t comprehend or care about investment banking or dream of living in Manhattan.

Nurses, teachers and accountants aren’t setting the world on fire. They’re not developing life-saving drugs or becoming policymakers.

—a CPA

.

Are you kidding me? CPA is the most boring job out there. And they are considered the bottom feeders of finance.

PP here. It’s not but that was kind of my point. Encouraging poor kids to be plumbers or nurses or accountants while encouraging your own kid to do something that’s actually influential to others is kind of dirty.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know underemployed Columbia, Princeton, and Vandy grads. It's no reflection on these schools. There will always be people who are unlucky no matter how prepared they are.

Underemployed Columbia or Princeton means HHI < $200,000.

HAHAHAHAHAHA

-Columbia grad who will never, ever have that HHI (partly because I'm single, but I don't make even half that in LCOL area)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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?

Go to the local public university and study engineering or computer science — or nursing, accounting, teaching. Poor kids generally don’t become investment bankers most poor families don’t comprehend or care about investment banking or dream of living in Manhattan.

Nurses, teachers and accountants aren’t setting the world on fire. They’re not developing life-saving drugs or becoming policymakers.

—a CPA

.

Are you kidding me? CPA is the most boring job out there. And they are considered the bottom feeders of finance.

PP here. It’s not but that was kind of my point. Encouraging poor kids to be plumbers or nurses or accountants while encouraging your own kid to do something that’s actually influential to others is kind of dirty.

seriously? I'll give you accountants, but how is a teacher, nurse, or plumber NOT influential to others?

[Anonymous]

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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.

I'm going to guess you never tried both. I did.

Private elementary or high school is different than public school for a variety of reasons. It's not simply a comparison of rankings.

Private university education is different than public college for a variety of reasons. It's not simply a comparison of ratings.

I'm sorry you don't understand. Maybe you were not privately educated

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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?

Go to the local public university and study engineering or computer science — or nursing, accounting, teaching. Poor kids generally don’t become investment bankers most poor families don’t comprehend or care about investment banking or dream of living in Manhattan.

Nurses, teachers and accountants aren’t setting the world on fire. They’re not developing life-saving drugs or becoming policymakers.

—a CPA

.

Are you kidding me? CPA is the most boring job out there. And they are considered the bottom feeders of finance.

more than a third of Fortune 500 CFOs are CPAs, but okay.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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?

Go to the local public university and study engineering or computer science — or nursing, accounting, teaching. Poor kids generally don’t become investment bankers most poor families don’t comprehend or care about investment banking or dream of living in Manhattan.

Nurses, teachers and accountants aren’t setting the world on fire. They’re not developing life-saving drugs or becoming policymakers.

—a CPA

.

Are you kidding me? CPA is the most boring job out there. And they are considered the bottom feeders of finance.

PP here. It’s not but that was kind of my point. Encouraging poor kids to be plumbers or nurses or accountants while encouraging your own kid to do something that’s actually influential to others is kind of dirty.

seriously? I'll give you accountants, but how is a teacher, nurse, or plumber NOT influential to others?

Not as influential as economists, professors, singers, actors, painters, or senators. Like I said I’m an accountant myself. I don’t like encouraging poor kids to go to trade school or major in pre-professional fields. No one tells rich kids to be plumbers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

I'm going to guess you never tried both. I did.

Private elementary or high school is different than public school for a variety of reasons. It's not simply a comparison of rankings.

Private university education is different than public college for a variety of reasons. It's not simply a comparison of ratings.

I'm sorry you don't understand. Maybe you were not privately educated

??? I think you meant to respond to the other poster.