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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I do care because I equate top schools with better opportunities. I know that my child wants a lifestyle that is at least the same as how they grew up (UMC) and a top school will make that more likely. Do you not care because you don’t care about those sorts of outcomes? [/quote]

How do you know a top school will make that outcome more likely? Your child could go to a less prestigious school and continue their UMC existence. [/quote]

It’s more likely because the kind of employers that pay really well routinely hire from top schools. While it’s certainly not impossible to achieve a UMC existence without a top school (and if that weren’t possible for my kid for whatever reason, I wouldn’t think that it couldn’t be achieved) , I don’t think anyone can reasonably argue that it’s not more likely. I understand that a top school is not dispositive of success but it’s one more thing that helps. [/quote]

Not really. The real world just does not support this notion. Initial hiring statistics can look this way, especially for a select few kind of jobs and employers, but that is not dispositive of what happens to any individual's real world experience and career prospects.[/quote]

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