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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am not a troll. I’m the parent of a HS sophomore who is killing themselves excelling in school and participating in extracurriculars to be competitive for T20.

At the same time, I see parents on here posting how their kid went to Cornell and ended up in the same place as someone who went to Pitt or another similarly ranked school.

At the same time, in my job I work alongside people who have gone to ivies and schools I’ve never heard of. I went to Michigan, btw.

My sister did her undergraduate at Oxford, stayed in the UK and is now partner at a well respected consulting firm alongside other partners that went to no name schools from India.

So seeing the stress my kid goes through, I am honestly asking what is the point of a Yale or Princeton if they take you to the same place that a school like Rutgers and Radford can take you?! [/quote]

No offense, you’re exposing how small-minded and dumb you are coming from 50,000-student degree mill Michigan. You don’t realize you’re “working with” a handful of Ivy alums who were probably in the bottom of their classes. You also apparently don’t realize what a truly powerful tightknit alumni network and dating pool are. To be clear, a powerful alum network is not “our degree mill alumni network is so big there are grads everywhere!” But I know that’s what your kind thinks. :roll: [/quote]

Lol, keep pushing your "velvet rope" nonsense, because in the end, that's all people like you have over the people you call "degree mill" who also make it big.  You prey on the simple fact that people can't redo college and can't ever 100% know what they missed.  You build your whole personality on that.

My personal take is that a lot of the sorting that goes on after college is still related to family wealth, attractiveness, EQ, etc.  Advantages that people enter with.  Not everyone agrees that Wall Street, MBB, and other such "prestige" occupations deserve the excess interest they receive mainly due to high salaries. Making your whole personality about the college you went to suggests a deep insecurity that can never be fully resolved.  You're right...we can never understand![/quote]

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