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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]She went to Princeton for her undergrad and Harvard Law School which makes quite a difference.

As a parent of three children who have all done fairly well, let me just say that where one goes for undergrad does matter as does the major but even more important is where they end up going for grad school, business school, law school or medical school.

But I also agree with those who advocate going a good state school for undergrad and then expending any disposable income for the next step in their education.[/quote]

Sure.  I was just pointing out that what one majors in in undergrad has little bearing on one's future earnings compared to where they go, how well they do, how they network, and where and how well they go to graduate/law/medical/business school.  I found that chart informative, because it basically indicates that with the exception of a handful of engineering degrees, what is most important is getting a degree, and perhaps going to graduate or professional school.  The incomes vary somewhat, but not as drastically as one would think--for the most part 50K, +/-5K as a median income (and this is only for people who only have a bachelors degree--graduate degree holders are not represented).  It indicates to me that majoring in the humanities and social studies is not the economic death sentence that people seem to believe, and majoring in the sciences is not the magic bullet either.  This is coming from someone who majored in the sciences myself.[/quote]

This is spot-on.[/quote]

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