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[quote=Anonymous]I totally disagree with them that it doesn't matter. Ivy League students are better students. It's a fact. Ivy League schools have much higher graduation rates than normal schools. However, the reason that they're not admitting that their kid is "average" is for the mere reason that they go to college at all. There's nothing "average" about pursuing education after high school. Look at these statistics. https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d13/tables/dt13_104.20.asp People who have completed even just a year of college have already accomplished more than a good portion of the country. And those who graduate college are more educated than most people in America.

Let me give you an analogy. Look at the white house. There are different positions in the white house and some positions are better than others. It's a fact and it's silly to argue otherwise. However, even someone in the lowest position in the white house still has a lot to be proud of because most people in the country can't get ANY position in the white-house. Similarly, someone who graduates from a mediocre college still has a lot to be proud of because most people never graduate from ANY college.

I also disagree with the statement that grad school matters more. If you click on the link I provided above, you'll see that there are even less people who earn a Master's Degree than there are people who earn a Bachelor's Degree, which means that graduate school matters less. It's more a question of, "Did you go to graduate school?" rather than, "Where did you go to graduate school?"  [/quote]

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