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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid has a rough time in Covid but a silver lining has been this: if you let go of the idea of going to a "top" or competitive school, the process is actually easy and fairly stress-free (and you'll get a lot of merit money too). There are a ton of schools with high acceptance rates that are eager to have your kid.[/quote]

This. The school doesn’t matter as much as what you do once you’re there. [/quote]
I think that really only applies to non elite colleges.  Let's be honest here.. elite colleges buy you the connections and network not readily available to the rest of the colleges.

My kid didn't apply to HYP, but they did to Stanford and MIT (deferred).  I'm not holding my breath, though.[/quote]

It really doesn’t. i think it may be lifechanging for a small group, but not that significant for most. Not to pull out the old “my spouse and I went to HYP” line, but although there are several high fliers among our classmates there are many more normal people living normal lives working at normal professional jobs. Lots of my college friends work PT and stay home with kids—and while they are doing fine (and they are interesting and scintillating people with many talents), they are not rich or fancy by any means.[/quote]

Agree, my spouse and I also went to the same level of schools, for undergrad and grad school.  I think people who did not overestimate the value of the experience and name.  Plenty of our classmates went on to completely average careers and plenty of the high flyers we know went to schools not in the T30.  
Some of the people who make it into the elite colleges peak in high school.[/quote]

+1 to this. My husband works on Wall Street and they love their elite feeder schools, but they also love Division 1 athletes or even athletes from lower tiered schools. Think lacrosse bro at Mary Washington.[/quote]

Yes. And don’t forget that successful people from “no name” colleges like to recruit smart, yet humble kids who went to similar type schools. This is especially prevalent among men in their 40s and up. They are sick and tired of the pretentious kids from name brand schools.[/quote]

More like dumb white men want to be surrounded by other dumb white men. [/quote]

Because your college was super diverse by race, class, gender, ethnicity?

IDK about the men who did this, but as a kid who grew up working class and attended a "no name" school for undergrad, I never passed on reading a résumé from one of these schools when I hired interns and associates when I worked in DC. I found that nearly all the folks I hired from no name and name brand schools had pretty comparable skill sets. Some of the kids in the former category needed a little more self confidence and that was part of the reason why I hired them - help them get a DC internship in case they wanted to work back in DC after graduation. There was only one truly pretentious kid, who was still a good worker. He clearly had read everyone's bio, saw I was the only one who had attended an Ivy (grad school), and would try to chat me up. Younger staff used to laugh about this as they knew I was the last person who would be swayed by our "shared" connection. [/quote]

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