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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you attend an Ivy school, you need to think strategically and make "connections" that you can use after graduation and later in life.   The joke is on you if you can't. [/quote]

Here’s the deal.  If you went to an Ivy and can’t take advantage of the opportunities that provides without going out of your way to cultivate “connections,” you probably didn’t belong at the Ivy in the first place.  The degree itself opens doors, so you shouldn’t have to have brown-nosed some rich kid there. [/quote]

Yeah…this is the attitude that results in the posts complaining about how my kid went to an Ivy and it didn’t result in anything special.

It’s everything the school brings…peer connections, alum connections, professor connections…that you have to take advantage.

The degree is just a modest bump in the scheme of things.[/quote]

I guess you're missing that these posts are generally from people who've never set foot near an Ivy (nor have their kids), along with a few Ivy failures who blame their misfortunes on a failure to have made sufficient "connections."   [/quote]

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