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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think it makes a difference if you go to a tippy top school. Other than that, the next T50 don’t matter as much. The difference between a school like Tufts or Vanderbilt, say, is negligible even though Vandy is higher ranked. They are both great schools.

I there is another difference once you start past the T100 school. You may have more opportunities graduating from Emory than Appalachian, for instance.

But if you are talking T15-T50, it makes no difference.[/quote]

You didn't understand my post at all.  How old are your kids?[/quote]

What are you talking about? The pp is spot on. [/quote]

Sigh.  I give up.  Clearly you're still in the midst of all of this.  Y'all can just go ahead and split hairs between schools and tiers like you always do.  As I said, I should have known I was preaching to the wrong crowd.

I'm out.  [/quote]

Just look at the salary outcomes from the school and it obvious that IN GENERAL, higher ranked schools produce better outcomes.[/quote]

[b]You are mixing up correlation and causation[/b]. And also salaries aren't everything.

I don't have kids but I wish I'd had more of OP's attitude when I was deciding on college and law school. There's a lot more to life than going to the most prestigious college you can get into. A LOT. Also I think for a lot of us, some time out of the pressure cooker would give us the freedom to actually figure out what we like instead of just trying to run that same old race.[/quote]

not really, try getting a prestigious job (whatever that may be in your chosen field) coming out of Princeton vs. UVA/UMD vs. Longwood. By the time you get down to Longwood, good luck [/quote]

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