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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]

You are making it unnecessarily complicated. Each year some Haverford graduates go to HLS.   Each year some Harvard graduates go to Fordham Law.  As simple as that.[/quote]

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