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Reply to "HYPSM/Elite School Alums - What has been the downside of your degree?"
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[quote=Anonymous]The biggest drawback I found is that you actually have fewer acceptable career paths than if you went to a more conventional big state school. You will be significantly discouraged from going into, for example, nursing, HR, physical therapy, most government jobs, etc. The general assumption is that you will want to go into prestige jobs or academia. Otherwise you will be perceived by peers as having thrown away your degree and by your new colleagues as thinking you are better than them. I was actively discouraged from going into k-12 teaching at my elite SLAC. It took me about a decade to get back to that path I had originally wanted.[/quote]
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