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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You guys aren't getting it. It's the expectations you develop for yourself and what your life will be like that matters long after you graduate. Yes, you work hard, are challenged academically. But that's not all. You learn how people from more successful backgrounds think and act. How smarter and academically more accomplished people think and act. You change. 
--small town girl from MC high school[/quote]

It evens out more once people hit middle age. You can’t tell by outcomes. For every tech millionaire or billionaire there’s a random [insert job].

-HYP grad[/quote]

+1. The Economist had a thing on this recently about how early elite performance disproportionately fails to translate to top performance later on.[/quote]

That article illustrated the same statistical phenomenon - there is no contradiction in saying that those who are Y disproportionately come from X even though most X will not become Y (because the funnel is so narrow at the top).[/quote]

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