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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have no doubt Ivy League degrees help people get MBB and similar jobs. We all know who those "prestigious firms" hire and why.

The notion though that Ivy League schools actually confer abilities that other environments cannot, however, is pure conjecture. In my workplace being competitive is not a desirable trait.[/quote]

I don’t understand that comment.

Literally all the people at the top of their area are competitive.  Professors, medical labs/researchers, doctors, musicians, actors, NPO founders…literally everything …you read or watch interviews and they talk about their competitive drive.[/quote]

None of those fields are well suited to work life balance especially with young kids[/quote]

Total BS from someone who has no idea how these fields work. As a professor-doctor couple and a sibling who went to a different ivy+ who is an engineering professor-tech industry VP couple, along with the majority of my friends from ivy+ who have one of the careers you mention yet also have kids, we are happy, make plenty of  money to have had flexibility in hours when kids were young and/or retire early. And can be full pay at ivy types. We knew we could “have it all” in part because we had professors and mentors along the way who made top careers plus family work. The late 90s in college had plenty of work life balance—are some of you from the 1960s pre feminist era of college?

My kids go to different schools in the ivy+ list. They have even more mentors with balanced lives than I did. It is a normal perspective at these places to be confident that you can become a researcher or lawyer or whatever else you want to do and find a spouse who shares the desire for family as well as chasing dreams. 
Maybe that is what my ivy undergrad and top grad/med school gave my spouse and I. The tools to see what was possible, be able to compete and make it happen. 
It was never about the money but the money has been a nice side effect.[/quote]

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