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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yale could open such large career doors that 35k/yr could be a blip in 5yrs. What if ds made $120k coming out of Yale?[/quote]

This should not be a part of the equation. Dale and Kruger's research has shown over and over (3 decades of data) that the same student will have the same outcomes financially whether they go to an elite college or their safety school. The situation OP is in is literally what D+K's study focuses on.[/quote]

This is simply just not true.  The penn state student will not even be interviewing for the same jobs.

And that is a misrepresentation of their data. They do not say same student will have same outcome.  [/quote]

I am the last one to defend Dale & Krueger, however, the OP's situation is literally the one they reference in their findings...a kid that was accepted to Yale, but chose Penn State.

The problem is that Dale & Krueger can only look at median/average outcomes.  So, they are saying the kid that goes to PSU (but also accepted to Yale) will have the same median financial outcome as the average kid at Yale.

Obviously, they have no way of proving if the kid that picked PSU would have had some amazing outcome had that kid picked Yale.

I suppose you could look at the median outcomes of the top 10% of Yale and compare that to the Accepted Yale/Chose PSU kid.  Not sure if that was part of their analysis.[/quote]

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