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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]According to this latest Chetty/Deming/Friedman study, it DOES matter where you go to college:

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2023/07/24/1189443223/affirmative-action-for-rich-kids-its-more-than-just-legacy-admissions[/quote]

I would agree that a better title for this thread would be “Where you go to college matters less than what you do when you get there” instead of not mattering at all. But I don’t think the above article is really about that. It’s about the very rich having an easier time getting in. There is one paragraph that talks about 12 schools being over-represented in certain high profile populations (eg, Supreme Court justices), but those are tiny groups. The largest of those groups is the Fortune 500 CEOs, where 90% didn’t go to one of the 12 for college. That’s actually higher than I for one would have guessed, so in some sense supports OP’s point. One problem with data on such small populations is the numbers can change quickly. My non-scientific impression is the trend over time is towards less over-representation by a small number of schools in most of the examples mentioned in the article (CEOs, congress members, Rhodes scholars…)

This topic was studied more directly by  Dale & Krueger, who concluded that things like high school stats and where one applies (as opposed to where admitted or enrolled) were better predictors of later income than selectivity of school attended. There were exceptions for different demographic groups (certain minorities and low income families) who benefited more than others by attending a highly selective college, which perhaps is part of the reason  schools saw fit to more aggressively pursue them. [/quote]

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