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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Undergrad prestige does NOT matter. At all. It’s been empirically proven. Smart kids do well anywhere, whether they’re at UMD or Stanford.

Dale and Kruger. Dale and Kruger. Dale and Kruger!!![/quote]
Yes, smart kids do well anywhere, and my kid is smart and hard-working enough to do well anywhere. That being said, [b]they want to work on Wall Street[/b], and the path there is much easier coming from a specific smaller set of schools.[/quote]
Does that make you feel like you've failed as a parent? At least a bit? Honestly.[/quote]
Honestly, no -- my husband works (and I worked -- now a SAHM) on Wall Street. We found it satisfying.[/quote]
Have either of you ever contributed anything meaningful through that work? (To borrow from Rocky, the great bulk of finance careers always have struck be as both a great living and a waste of life.)[/quote]

NP.  Their tax dollars are probably funding the research you are doing, or the companies they're raising money for are employing the systems you are developing, or the VCs they are backing are desigining the climate solutions you are advocating policy for.  Without that funding, the high-minded God's work you are doing wouldn't get out of your own head.  Neither is better than the other, but both are necessary.  And this, this is why DC sucks so much.  Everyone competing against each other, no one working together.

And FWIW, the your college matters only for the college network you want to be a part of, which can (can) lead to a lot of other things.  But you can succeed from anywhere.  It's not the place, it's the person.

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