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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Honestly, this reminds me of Rory Gilmore on Gilmore Girls. She so desperately wanted to go to an Ivy and never really amounted to anything. I think some people want the prestige of the college, but don't think about how to use that to propel them into a high earning career. Most of the people that are from wealthier backgrounds that end up at these schools seem to understand that. [/quote]

Then there are those of us who had absolutely no idea what we were getting into.  I was contacted by schools after taking the PSAT. I was accepted by Dartmouth, Harvard and Yale, among other schools.  I didn’t visit them before deciding which offer to accept.  I knew that these were “good schools”, but I didn’t really know anyone that I could talk with who had attended a predominantly white school or even a school out of state . I didn’t really have a sense of the “prestige “ attached to schools like this, or, as you’ve said, how to use that to propel myself to a higher earning career.  Actually, I thought I was in a “high enough” earning career — compared with what I was used to.

The benchmarks that many people here are using for things like “high earning” and “prestige “ didn’t even register with me because they weren’t a part of my world in any way.  I think people more familiar with wealth and power and privileges know what they’re aiming for, and often know how to access those things.  I just wanted an environment where my “nerdy” academic interests could be supported and even encouraged, and a “good” job that was an interesting career and not a slog just to pay the bills.

Fortunately I got much more. [/quote]

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