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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It doesn’t prove Ivy League schools matter. You can argue it’s the high student caliber in those schools that led to the results.[/quote]

That has been studied, multiple times, comparing the group of students who had the choice and picked ivy+ MIT/Stanford/Duke /Chicago versus those who picked lower ranked schools. For the most competitive sectors of various fields, the ivy+ schools gave a small but statistically significant boost. [/quote]

Until you control for family income and education. In those cases it's pretty negligible except in cases of kids going from poverty to ivy--but there's not a huge control group because those kids will get full rides anywhere so there isn't a huge comparison group  at flagships.

For UMC kids,[b] not much difference.[/b]

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Oh yes there is. You have to have one at an ivy and one at a good public or good LAC to see it. It is night and day. [/quote]

Been there and done that. May hold for a public but the kids at one's Ivy had nothing on the kids at the other ones' SLAC. It was the opposite if anything. You can ask either today and they will agree that the one who went to the SLAC got the better deal all around. Both are highly successful.[/quote]

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