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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I graduated college in 2008 and had 3 friends who graduated from Middlebury.  2 made 100K right out of college, one went a different route but worked at an amazing non profit that made a huge difference in the area they were.  No kids had connections.

Now at 33, they are all wildly successful.

So it wasnt a waste of money for their parents.  [/quote]

They are called outliers.

Every good college will have the top % who will do extremely well in life. There's, what, 700 in a typical graduating class at Middlebury. These accomplished graduates at such a young age probably represents the top 10%, if not the top 5% of that class. I can easily believe it. But it's also greatly misleading to think the rest of the 90-95% are walking into 100k jobs upon graduation.

The real argument is whether they would have achieved the same success had they gone elsewhere, particularly their flagship state. I am inclined to think the answer is yes. Some kids are made for success regardless of where they went to college. It shows and comes through early on. [/quote]

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