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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am going out on a limb here and suggesting that a great education is more important then the prestige of the high school or college.

In the long run, very few jobs actually care if they end up with people from a top 10 school or a top 20 school. Only 1/4 of the adult population in the US have a college degree at all. Let your kid decide where they want to go at the next level of school and apply. If that is TJ then great. Maybe they end up at a top 25 school instead of an Ivy, the world is not going to end and they will be just fine.

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Alma Mater doesn't matter unless it does, and having HYPSM will always open doors.  Of course, at the end of the day, performance matter most, but I've heard countless times where an potential list of interviewees is being considered and a candidate being "a Harvard grad" wins the tiebreaker.

I mean, even in the NFL, where an Ivy League pedigree means you didn't go to teh best football school, Ryan Fitzpatrick is known as "The QB who went to Harvard." [/quote]

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