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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Underlying all these discussions but rarely stressed…[b]you have to go to one of only like 20-30 schools to see tremendous financial success as an English major.
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I doubt even the successful English majors on this thread would encourage their kid to be an English major at Radford or ODU or any o end thousands of different schools.

Hence why so many posts start with “I went to a top 3 LAC”…which is a far different reality for most kids.[/quote]

That is true, but that is also true for truly top tech and stem positions, top CEOs, T14 law(which feeds to Big Law, Scotus etc), top med schools and phDs: those same 30 schools for undergrad are overrepresented at the top of all fields. Not necessarily by salary, and certainly not by salary less than 10 years out, but by overall prestige and impact. Top doctors at the cutting edge of research need to be in top hospital systems: these choose preferentially from top med schools, whose rosters have a significant overrepresentation of the same 30 undergrad institutions. Is the boost of undergrad pedigree bigger for English majors? Probably. But it exists all the same for all sectors of "white collar" jobs. Of course one can get to the top at schools outside these 30, but it becomes harder and harder the further down you go. [/quote]

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