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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The top 10% of any school will be full of brainiacs.

Take a look at the research. Someone in the top 10% of Haverford will [b]do better[/b] than someone in the bottom 25% at Harvard...

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So, no one has answered. What is "doing better" post-college? Is it net worth at age 50? Lifetime W-2 income? Salary at age 30?

This whole discussion is misguided - speaking as someone who has retired from a Wall Street career at age 50.[/quote]

It could mean for example their graduate school destination.  Haverford top 10 may go to Harvard law school or Harvard medical school.  Harvard bottom 50% may end up at lower ranked graduate schools.  [/quote]

Right, but it's so subjective. This whole discussion is pointless because there's not a standardized way of "doing better".

Example 1: I might say becoming a SWE at Google is "doing worse" than becoming an MD at Goldman in their Dallas, TX office. You might, rightly, disagree.

Example 2: So, Haverford's top 10 might go to Harvard Law, but Harvard's bottom 50% might go to KKR. No MBA needed.  Right? Then the Haverford Biglaw (Latham, Kirkland) partner ends up working for the Harvard KKR MD - who is his top client and he's at his beck and call. So Haverford Biglaw makes $6MM a year and Harvard KKR MD makes $16M.

Do you see how this analysis simply fails? Obviously, the opposite could be true. But there's no guarantee. And I know people in all of the examples above. Replace Haverford with Colgate or Midd.[/quote]

Ha.
No one really wants to know how the real world works. But maybe they'll come back in 10 years and claim everything was rigged against them.  They were always focused on the wrong metrics. But who's going to tell them?[/quote]

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