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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For all the people who claim on the college and job sections of DCUM that college doesn’t matter - here’s why I think it does.

I grew up solidly middle class in the Midwest - my dad worked in a factory and my mom was a public school teacher. I was a small town valedictorian from a rural county where no one was very rich or very poor. I went to an elite school on a hefty Keri. scholarship and pursued a lucrative major (engineering). I knew money was the ticket out of my hometown so I literally picked the highest paid undergraduate major despite not knowing any adults who were engineers. Once at college, I dated guys from well off families and learned a lot about how the world works and how the rich get richer. This helped me make a lot of the “good choices” people in this thread talk about. I didn’t make all the good choices I could have - grad school was never on my radar. I was actually surprised my junior and senior year to find out peers had been preparing for and applying to grad school. I went to a prestigious consulting company and my long term relationships with those wealthier guys had taught me how to fit in and climb the corporate ladder. Thanks to my professional success, I married into a family that does things like pay for their kids’ college, weddings, down payments, and vacations.

So the moral of the story is - it’s not where you go to college, it’s who else goes to that college. If you are a first generation college student, the life lessons from well off peers can steer you towards the “good decisions” that kids from middle and lower class families don’t even know about. [/quote]

Hear, hear.[/quote]

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