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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No. Not at all.[/quote]

Maybe not Duke vs. Harvard or UVA vs. Duke, but you're saying it doesn't matter if you go to Harvard or Longwood? For real?

Longwood Average Salary After 10 Years
$43,200

Harvard Average Salary After 10 Years
$136,700[/quote]

Haha! We look at this in the stats class I teach. Here you want to be looking at modal and not mean salary. At least some of the reason the mean is so high for Harvard is because a few individuals (like gates and sucked beef) end up skewing the mean. It's also high because of people who work in family businesses who are overpaid for their services by wealthy parents, including wealthy overseas families. This number is not a guarantee that YOU will make this salary if you are just a regular Joe.[/quote]

This. It’s also a false dichotomy—no one is choosing between Harvard and Longwood. It would be better exercise to compare Longwood to JMU or Radford or CNU, or Harvard to Notre Dame. Radford and Harvard both serve separate, important purposes. [/quote]

Relatively few would be choosing between UVA and Harvard and the few that would choose UVA would be athletes or perhaps Jefferson scholars.  [/quote]

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