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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At Columbia you're going to become friends with peers who will become very successful. At UVA you're going to meet a bunch of future SAHM, nurses, teachers, salesman, lawyers. Different levels.[/quote]

1.   I don't believe this. "Very successful" people come from all kinds of schools.

But, even if true..

2.  This seems to assume that everyone should want to be the kind of "very successful" to which an Ivy league school supposedly provides some magic gate.  I'm sure it is shocking to the "Ivy league or bust" folks but success looks different to different people.  I know "very successful" teachers, nurses, sales people etc.  They love their work, are very good at it, and can support themselves.  To me that is what 'very successful' looks like.[/quote]

I'm sorry but being a nurse is a tough, thankless, poorly paid job. Its not successful.[/quote]

Wow.  We'll have to agree to disagree on what makes a person successful at life.  I think the NICU nurses who helped us survive those first few weeks are 'successful'.  I think my sister who manages nurse training for a hospital is 'successful'.[/quote]

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