"The future of the 1%: These are the 20 US colleges that produce the wealthiest grads"

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Anonymous wrote:ND that is

If you're wealthy/elite and Catholic, you want to send your kid here. Crazy loyal alumni donor base that wheels & deals among themselves. ND has a big presence on Wall Street.

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Breaking News: just because your kiddo goes to one of these schools is no guarantee of your kiddo growing to be a 1%er. Just as you buying a lottery ticket is no guarantee that you will win the lottery. Relax.

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Anonymous wrote:I think Notre Dame is the only real surprise on that list for me, particularly given that I think of it as a school that places a lot of grads in the midwest, where salaries tend to be lower.

Austin produces a lot of STEM degrees, I think. Berkeley was well, plus places a lot of grads in the Bay Area, where salaries are very high.
Miami and USC have a lot of richie rich kids that get jobs in the family business.
NYU places most grads in NYC, which has the highest salaries in the US.

No doesn’t surprise me at all. Huge endowment and many wealthy legacies.

Agree, a perfect example of kids who are just coming in from privilege and then returning to that privilege with the stamp of approval from a name brand school. ND isn't even that hard to get into if you are a wealthy Catholic because you can boost your odds significantly by sending them to a highly regarded Catholic high school. It's like a sneaky backdoor way of easing your kid's admission to an "elite" school.

Why is it sneaky? I know lots of kids in my DS's Catholic HS that were not admitted. Being committed to Catholic education, however, doesn't hurt you if trying to get into a school like Notre Dame, but it is not the only thing they are looking for obviously.

Sounds like you are bitter.

Lol at being bitter about not going to ND -- why would a non-Catholic with good grades want to move to South Bend and hang out with drunk former alter boys for 4 years?

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Anonymous wrote:Breaking News: just because your kiddo goes to one of these schools is no guarantee of your kiddo growing to be a 1%er. Just as you buying a lottery ticket is no guarantee that you will win the lottery. Relax.

Kiddo? Sir, these people are legal adults.

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Anonymous wrote:How do they “produce” them? Do they accept some 1000 SAT and 2.5 GPA kids from poor families and make them successful and wealthy?

Perhaps they teach them the difference between correlation and causation.

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Anonymous wrote:UT Austin, Michigan, UVA, Miami and Boston are surprises to me. And NYU being so high is also a bit unexpected, though not entirely surprising.

Really? What schools would you think would be above them?

But really this is just about the UMC/UC continuing to be UMC/UC.

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Many really wealthy Texas families have gone to UT Austin for generations. The greek system there maintains the $$$ network.

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Anonymous wrote:Sounds about right. Many of these grads came from umc, privileged backgrounds with access to opportunities .. and some of these schools have strong networks that breed loyalty and further expand those opportunities.

Berkeley has very high percentage of low income students compared to other schooner the list.

UCLA as well. Huge number of first gens.

They are great models, but it's worth being said that both are loosing the things that got them there. Berkeley is no longer the odd, quirky artsy place that propogated a lot of the diversity and achievement that left there. They are having trouble hiring in certain depts b/c of an increase in monochromatic culture. If you knew somebody from the area was smart, accomplished in whatever field they ended up in ( but had an uncommon degree like Art-Anthropology) , a little quirky and was running for local office in the 70s-to-early 2000s, the stereotype is they Went to Berkeley. Now they pump out kids to silicon valley to contribute nothing to the country.

Berkeley has the most departments or programs in the top 10 I the country than any other schools except for Harvard which is darn good for a public university filled with low income students.

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Where is Duke?

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No Duke, Vanderbilt, UNC, Boston College, Emory, Hopkins, Tufts. Surprising.

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Getting a Women's History Degree from Harvard or a CS degree from Penn State?? What will make an unhooked, MC kid a 1%er?

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Anonymous wrote:Getting a Women's History Degree from Harvard or a CS degree from Penn State?? What will make an unhooked, MC kid a 1%er?

Why are you comparing two completely unrelated things.

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Anonymous wrote:Getting a Women's History Degree from Harvard or a CS degree from Penn State?? What will make an unhooked, MC kid a 1%er?

Did you know that not everyone dreams of the same things?

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Anonymous wrote:Getting a Women's History Degree from Harvard or a CS degree from Penn State?? What will make an unhooked, MC kid a 1%er?

Getting a Women's History Degree from Penn State or a CS degree from Harvard?? What will make an unhooked, MC kid a 1%er? BOOM got 'em I am so smart and wise, bet!!!

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Anonymous wrote:Getting a Women's History Degree from Harvard or a CS degree from Penn State?? What will make an unhooked, MC kid a 1%er?

Why are you comparing two completely unrelated things.

DP.. my knee jerk reaction was that, yea, a CS degree from Penn State would make more. But then I looked it up on ziprecruiter (maybe there's another site that shows something different).

They make about the same.

https://www.ziprecruiter.com/Salaries/Women-Studies-Salary

https://www.ziprecruiter.com/Salaries/Computer-Science-Salary

It could be, though, that a masters is required for Women Studies grad to attain that level of salary, whereas for a CS major, only a BS is required.