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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Because it's a good way to get a better entry-level job.[/quote]

This^^^.  All things being completely equal, I have observed that friends' kids who went to top 20 schools were much, much, much more likely to be recruited for entry-level jobs.

Top Tech companies go to Stanford and UC Berkeley and woo 20 year olds but they don't go to U. Minnesota or Grinnell, which I think is are fine schools.  Google isn't visiting Kansas State or Marquette.

In my personal experience after 20 years in Washington, as a state college grad working alongside Princeton and Yale grads ..... those guys had it SO much easier than I did to get to the same place.   They're not smarter than I am, but life was kind of handed to them in the 21 - 28 year old range because the Justice Department, Harvard School of Public Policy and Columbia Journalism School automatically assumed that, as a 22, 24 and 27 year old, they were "better" than the K State grad.

Can't say I blame DoJ and Harvard grad programs, but, what wouldn't I want my progeny to avoid that?  [/quote]

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