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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why we're still fascinated by college rankings ?

How else will you know if your kids are better than theirs ?[/quote]

We'll actually really know when they get their first pay check.
College is like a midterm. 
Whoever gets bigger check wins, and it's the final grade.

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https://thestreet.com/investing/dropping-out-of-harvard-may-be-the-best-path-to-unimagined-wealth

1) Harvard
2) Stanford
3) U Penn
4) Columbia
5) NYU
6) Northwestern
7) MIT
8) Yale
9) USC
10) U Chicago

11) Texas
12) Princeton
13) Cornell
14) UCLA
15) Michigan
16) Notre Dame
17) Virginia
18) Georgetown
19) Boston University
20) U Miami

Maybe the only top 20 list of colleges that really matters ?[/quote]

That list isn't adjusted for enrollment and it includes both graduate school and undergraduate.  Harvard Business School alone is probably near the top.[/quote]

And as a gazillion have pointed out on other threads about these lists is that they don't control for family wealth attending--expensive elite schools where wealthy kids attend are more likely to have wealthy kids when they graduate.  Their wealthy connected families get them internships, positions.  The middle class students at these schools, whose families scrounge to pay, don't do any better than they would elsewhere in terms of pay.  There are studies that look at college impact on wealth BUT  control for family wealth going into college and none of these schools are on them.[/quote]

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