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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As someone who is a member of the "millennial" generation, this is what I have to say:

Most of the millenial ivy league grads I know who want a lucrative career jump into either investment banking, management consulting, or software engineering.  All of these jobs hire graduates from elite schools with a bachelors degree.

The people I know who go to law school go because they really want to be a lawyer. Among my peers you either 1) get into a top 10 program (forget top 20, mostly just Harvard and Yale), or if that's not in the cards 2) Decide on a place you like well enough to live there forever where your spouse has employment that has some clout regionally.[/quote]

As someone in IT, what a waste to spend all that money at an Ivy League for Software Engineering. Most of it is learned on the job and to be good at it you MUST have a natural ability. Someone who studies SW engineering at Stanford and is a "student" of the profession will never be as good as the guy with natural ability who only got a GED.  One of the brightest guys I know only graduated HS and rolled right into the computer world at 18 and now at 24 can completely write his ticket. He probably will never have the need to prepare a resume or go on a competitive interview.[/quote]

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