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[quote=Anonymous]For those who don't come from wealth or have connections, especially if they are students of color, top schools can provide a gateway to opportunities they otherwise might not have.

But also, unless I missed it, no one has mentioned the fact that while brains and talent emerge from a multitude of backgrounds and attending a "no name" school in the U.S. doesn't automatically shut people out from any given industry, students from "top" schools are disproportionally represented amongst those in the most prestigious and/or high-paying fields, which leads me to another point that I don't think anyone has mentioned: Trump, Kushner and G.W. Bush aside, most of the students at schools like Harvard are very, very capable intellectually, and the rigor of the education they receive more or less correlates to that ability--at least as reflected by a comparison of workloads and standards relative to those typical at non-peer schools. Sure, grades are inflated and students do less work at elite institutions today than they did when I was an undergraduate, but they still require a level of achievement exceeding that demonstrated by most U.S. undergraduates. [/quote]

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