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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No college is worth 90K.
I have a Stanford grad my age, 3 levels below me in my org.
I have countless UVA, UNC, Georgetown, Vanderbilt, friends in my neighborhood who are in very middle tier jobs or stay at home wifes.
Tufts? Barely makes me think it might be a decent school.
Delusion aside college shoudl be aboout 30K these days.  60K and you know you are wasting money. 90K and you might as well call the police because you have been robbed.  Causation and correlation are very different things.[/quote]

These examples are terrible…I don’t understand why people throw them out as proof of anything.

Also…why would you include UVA or UNC in your list when of course a bunch of those folks likely were in state and didn’t pay the outrageous tuitions?

If you look at the 20 richest Americans…15 either graduated or dropped out of a top school 10 school. Warren Buffet would be counted in this group if he had not decided to transfer from Wharton.

You can’t win the anecdote fight…so don’t play it.  The reason people decide to pay these amounts ironically are because of the anecdotes (that are verified vs the bullshit spewed on DCUM)…which also create unrealistic expectations.[/quote]

The reasons those 20 richest are so successful is likely due to their wealthy upbringing---they would succeed no matter where they went.  And it's easier to be an entrepreneur when you know you have a safety net (rich family) supporting you.  You are often brought up to take more risks, so it's a part of life from young age.

So it's not really correlation to the school they got into, but to their entire upbringing. 
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