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[quote=Anonymous][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?
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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. [/b]

[b]You can’t win the anecdote fight…so don’t play it. [/b] 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]

+1 
studies have been done showing ivy+ and/or T10 schools overrepresented at top levels of many careers.

My law partners are 1/5 from T10s, 3/5 from T30/T5LACs, 1/5 from T30-75/lesser LAC, for undergrad. Law all but 2 are T14. 
DH's medical partners/owners of the specialist group are 2/3 T10/ivy or Williams, 1/3 are Uva, WM. The med schools they went to are 1/2 Top50 research med schools.

We are sending all 3 of ours to ivy, T10 or T5LAC: if they were not that level of student or had gotten shut out we would do the next closest thing, T25 private or William and Mary in state which functions like a private mid-size and has T25 quality students.[/quote]

They are overrepresented but there is still wide variation in success. There was a study in Nature last year that looked at 34 of the top schools and found how heavily overrepresented they were across over 26,000 high achievers in 30 different domains. But, there were two big caveats. One, people from the 34 were more likely to have attended for grad school than undergrad, and two, in the professional fields (versus the academic ones) they were overrepresented but usually a minority of the total. In other words, a majority of the high achievers in the professional fields didn’t attend one of the 34 schools, despite them still being overrepresented.[/quote]

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