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[quote=Anonymous][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]

Well “literally everything” means everything else as well.  I don’t know any field where being competitive is undesirable.

What does this discussion have to do with work life balance?[/quote]

DP. It’s deflection. 
It’s a recycle of the same DCUM mantra: ivy students must not have any fun, ivy/elites filled with strivers, my janey would never go to one and is picking a relaxed school with sports etc. Thus when articles come out discussing the (small, at the margins) boost ivy+ provides in getting to the top fields the response is a predictable lament on how those fields have no work-life balance anyway thus who wants them.

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