DCUMers are right: Everything hangs on getting into an Ivy
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Anonymous
I noticed this at the Law firm. There are no non- top 10 laws school grads who are partners. None. |
Anonymous
| But where did they go for undergrad? |
Anonymous
| DCUMers are right about very few things outside of their tiny little DC/NoVA/MOCO bubble. In most of the country no. one. cares. |
Anonymous
| This only matters if you want your kid to make more money than everyone else. Frankly that is not one of my life goals and I certainly hope its not my daughter's goal either. There is so much more to life. |
Anonymous
Exactly |
Anonymous
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This is inconsistent with previous research (though it is looking at a somewhat different issue):
http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/21/revisiting-the-value-of-elite-colleges/ "A decade ago, two economists — Stacy Dale and Alan Krueger — published a research paper arguing that elite colleges did not seem to give most graduates an earnings boost. As you might expect, the paper received a ton of attention. Ms. Dale and Mr. Krueger have just finished a new version of the study — with vastly more and better data, covering people into their 40s and 50s, as well as looking at a set of more recent college graduates — and the new version comes to the same conclusion." |
Anonymous
+ a million 1s. |
Anonymous
+1 Not at the price you have to pay to get into an Ivy. Getting ready to apply to an Ivy is a full time job that significantly impairs quality of life. To be Ivy-ready, your kid has to have more than 5-6+ extracurriculars, an A average, and stand out in some way. It's really, really hard work and it's a lot of pressure on some very young people. Even if the bonus in pay is $50,000 per year on average, it's not worth it. They can make the same $50,000 by opening their own business, if they want to put those kind of hours in, and they can make that choice as adults, not high school students. |
Anonymous
Strange firm then. That is a not at all a universal truth. Sheesh. |
Anonymous
Not even kinda at least from my experience. |
Anonymous
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I guess it depends on your definition of "everything". DH and I are pretty happy with our lives, but we didn't go to an Ivy. We do alright, probably top 5%er. So for us, everything didn't hang on getting into an ivy.
And didn't they do a study where they found that people who went to Ivies were less happy than others? So, there you go.. not everything does hang on it. |
Anonymous
1st pp, what kind of firm is this? I have yet to come across a firm with ALL top 10 partners. |
Anonymous
+1 |
Anonymous
Yes, please provide this law firm's name. |
Anonymous
+100 |