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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Of course attending a prestige college matters in one's life outcome. UK prime ministers mostly came from Oxford or Cambridge. Many Ivy graduates/dropouts went on to become business leaders, government leaders, supreme court justices, and etc. Has there ever been a SC justice or President from Longwood? Not I am aware of. Your anecdotes don't change the overall statistics. You also can't detach the name brand from the people who attend the top schools. Statistically those are people more driven, hard working, and intelligent.

Obviously the choice of attending an average school is fine too. If you are a hardworking and intelligent person, you will be successful regardless. But there is no point of forcing your lifestyle to everyone else.  [/quote]

What?

Where did Steve Jobs go to college?
Bill Gates?

CEO's across the country did not all go to Ivy leagues. SC Justices LOL ACB HAHAHAHAHA Kavanaugh HAHAHAHAHAHA[/quote]

Not sure your point here.  Bill Gates went to Harvard because he is brilliant.  He dropped out but so?  His father is an OG Biglaw firm founder.  He was rich.  He can do that stuff.  Steve Jobs is one in a generation.

The higher ranked the school the more opportunities and options are open.  What a student does with those is up to the student.  Some do nothing with them.  I have classmates who did nothing.  As you go down the scale the opportunities and options decrease.  But they are still there and people take advantage every day.  So can you make it from anywhere?  Yes.  Is it harder at the 200th ranked school.  Yes.  What you want to do with your life you really don't know at 17.  So all things being equal, work super hard and go to the best school you can.  But that is not for everyone.  I have a DS who that would not work for.  So we never pushed.  But if the smarts are there and the kid is ok with it then yes push.  It matters and makes a difference.[/quote]

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