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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My brother went to Princeton and it opened so many doors for him. That alumni network is SOLID. He makes more than 1 mil per year (that's his base pay - he also gets a bonus). The rest of us went to Virginia state schools and we are not even CLOSE to him in salary or success. He's no smarter nor more hard working than any of his siblings - he just made a very good decision to go to Princeton and take out student loans (which are long since paid off).[/quote]

Plenty of people making your brother's salary did not attend elite colleges, including my brothers.[/quote]

I've only worked in nonprofit/political circles, so high salary never on the table and may make folks even more focused on other trappings of prestige. I do know that there is at least one job I didn't get because I had attended a college the boss had never heard of (she told the person she hired who, in turn, told me when I was hired by another department a few months later). And I know there is at least one job I did get because I attended an Ivy for grad school (as per that boss: "that compensated for the college you attended that I had never heard of"). [/quote]

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