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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Some lawyers are elitist snobs that absolutely do look at undergrad - heck, they'd look at high schools if they could.[/quote] I am 20+ years out of law school. A few years ago, I was sitting in a conference room with many similarly experienced/old lawyers. Each person introduced himself and included what law school he went to (and undergrad if it was prestigious) AND WHAT JOURNAL HE WAS ON IN LAW SCHOOL. This is a bunch of 40- and 50-year old attorneys still talking about having been on Harvard or Yale Law Review. In our rounds of attorney hiring over the past few years, the selected finalists all have been from elite schools (both undergrad and law school). Attorneys from ordinary schools who used to form the backbone of government practice now would not even be considered. This is why kids apply to the same top 25 colleges. This is why kids are stressed out and anxious and feel like they have failed before they even turn 20. Go back and read the post by the miserable Columbia student who wanted to transfer, and all of the posters who told her to gut it out even though she felt suicidal and would incur debt, because "prestige." This is why there is so much student loan debt! This is why people have written books about "opportunity hoarding" and how assortative mating perpetuates economic inequality. It's not the same as buying BMW vs. Toyota, or whatever the comparison was, because because people truly believe that the name and rank of your college confers intellectual and moral superiority. This follows you your entire career, so much so that rich people are willing to commit crimes to get their kids that advantage. It is a crappy, morally objectionable reality that I wish did not exist, but it does. And then people come on here and yell at OP because she is lamenting that her kid won't have those advantages. Privileged? Yes, incredibly so. But many of us feel the same way. [/quote] +1 So many people who claim it doesn't matter and who also jockey to get their kids into T20 schools "because the name matters." So which is it?[/quote] Well I say where you go does not matter and was not obsessed with getting my kid into t20 schools. They applied ED, got deferred, then ultimately got rejected. They had a great list of other schools, including safeties, and picked from those acceptances. They were upset for 1-2 days about the deferral/rejection and then we told them they had to move on and get excited about their other schools, of which there were several they really liked.[/quote]
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