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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The only folks who are anti-elite don't know what they're talking about and/or don't have the money saved.

Elite grads don't rail against the elites. It's always bitter UMD or JMU moms who try to convince you their average kids are soo!! happy at their mediocre college.[/quote]

Meh. I am an Ivy grad (whose child is also attending an Ivy) and I laugh at the people who are 10+ years out of undergrad and still bring up where they went to school or how "elite" their institution was. It reeks of insecurity and/or navelgazing. No one cares.

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+1.  The elitist comments in this thread are jaw-dropping to me.  I have degrees from three Ivy League schools and my takeaway from the Ivy League is some teachers are brilliant, a good portion of them may be brilliant but hate teaching and suck at it, some of the students are very smart, a lot of them are entitled brats who are really quite horrible people.  Common sense, street smarts, and interpersonal skills matter a great deal and can be learned basically anywhere.  The door-opening power of the ivy degree depends a lot on your field of work.  Some fields are prestige-obsessed (like law) and it helps.  Others not so much.  But in terms of the quality of the education, the cheaper schools are really just as good, based on then graduates I know from those schools.  I genuinely do not care whether my kids go to an elite school.   [/quote]

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