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[quote=Anonymous]OK, I don't think Ivies are the be-all-end-all, but this silliness isn't much better.

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I think many of the posters on this thread are lawyers. In DC BigLaw, I'm sure that where you went to law school matters, undergrad not so much, but it can help to have a double Ivy degree.

[b]In the real world, it's hard work that gets you places.[/b] I think many posters are trying to justify spending all that money on private colleges for their darlings, [b]just because they can afford it.[/b]
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It's silly to say kids get into Ivies "just because they can afford it." Maybe you attended your Ivy a few decades ago. But these days, working hard is a necessity for getting into Ivies. Even the athletic recruits to Ivies have stellar GPAs and are often NMSSFs (my DC knows quite a few athletic recruits who entered DC's Ivy this fall, although my DC is not an athletic recruit).

I don't know how many of us are lawyers. I'm not a lawyer.

[quote=Anonymous]I went to an Ivy, and I can tell you there were some pretty stupid people there. Yes they were good at getting good grades, but they were narrow minded, extremely competitive, not particularly thoughtful people. I've met far more intelligent people who went to no name schools.
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I agree, there are stupid people at Ivies and very smart people at no-name schools. For instance, your statement above is a good example of how an Ivy-educated person can have bad thinking skills. Drawing a comparison between the dumbest person at your Ivy and the smartest person from a no-name school is an exercise in anecdotes, and it proves nothing about the true means/medians within these two groups of kids.

That said, I think there are plenty of smart kids at no-name schools.

[quote=Anonymous]To OP: You are right. My kids are going to state schools or private if they get more money. If you have the money to waste, and your child gets into an Ivy, by all means send him/her there, but don't delude yourself that that pricey degree will be anything more than something for you to brag about. Your child will succeed based on how hard she works, how smart she is (encompassing the many definitions of 'smart'), not based on where she spent four years of her adolescence. [/quote]

OK, I finally agree with something you said. DC is going to an Ivy, but I think a state school could have provided an equally good education (our state school did not happen to offer DC's area of interest as a major). I also agree that success is based on work ethic.
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