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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Jesus, the navel gazing on this thread is so gross.

Newsflash: you can do anything from any school. No one cares once you're in college, so long as you do well and work hard. Hardly anyone has heard of my big, no-name midwestern U and it's certainly not any list in any meaningful rank. You know what? I've succeeded by every measure you people would use. And there are many people in my circle like me who didn't go to JHU, Duke, etc.
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I went to no name state u that's on the list, and I think I'm fairly successful (making six figures for the past  20 years), but going to a top school gives you the edge that going to a no name doesn't.   The number of grads from a T20 making six figures is far far higher than those graduating from a T75 to T100.

Big companies that pay well don't recruit at the T75 to T100.  I got to where I am at with a combination of hard work, smarts and luck, being at the right place at the right time.

That's not to say that I push my kids to go to  T20.  My  one kid is at the state flagship with merit, and the other will probably go to a T75. They will do fine as long as they work hard, but the road to get to their destination may take longer than for those who get their start at a T20.

Going to T20 is basically like being born with a silver spoon in your mouth (which many who go to elite expensive colleges are) vs being born to a middle class family. Both can reach millionaire status but it will take the middle class grad longer to get there.[/quote]

I'm the PP you're responding to and, honestly, I just don't think this is the case anymore. It is certainly not the case among the people I went to school with, my peers, etc. We joke about how the Radford grad (as one example of a friend) supervises and far outpaces his ivy subordinates in terms of salary. OFC that is only one example. The point is, if you do well enough, those alleged ivy/top 20 intangibles really don't mean as much. And the rich kids with connections would have had them regardless of what school they went to. [/quote]
That's the point of the list.

Wealthy connected students will do well no matter where they go, so universities like Duke aren't that high on the list. They don't punch above their weight.

But, being born on 3rd base is like going to a T20.  For those who aren't born on 3rd base, going to a T20 can be life altering because of the connections they will make and the recruiters that they are exposed to at those colleges.[/quote]

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