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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Shrugs.

I always take these with a grain of salt.

I went to an Ivy undergrad and an Ivy grad (my grad program was one of the top ranked in its field).

In my field I have met many very accomplished people who did not go to top colleges. And have met many more very successful people who also didn't go to top colleges.

Despite my undergrad's reputation I've never felt there was much of a networking benefit. Everyone already expected you to go to grad/professional schools, and even if you joined the workforce after graduation you were still expected to get a MBA or MPP down the road.

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Does it bother you to know that there are many more people who did not go to "top colleges" that are being underpaid simply due to the back luck of the draw. Like google just realized University of California graduates and Harvard graduates are equally good computer programmers, but for years they refused to recruit from UofC and complained about lack of a workforce in the US. [/quote]

How is not getting into a top college "luck of the draw"?[/quote]

Ask all the 4.5 kids with perfect SATs that did not get in.

Let me explain it to you this way.

There are X amount of spaces in Tier 1 colleges, there are 100*X students who are qualified. You don't know that the X kids have a whole lot of luck on their side? or are you of the false notion that the X kids "worked harder" than the other kids?[/quote]

I don't agree that notion is false. The admissions committee may have made some very fine distinctions between the 95 kids who did not get in and the 5 who did, but nonetheless those 5 had some merit that the 95 lacked. They did not just put 100 names in a jar and draw 5.[/quote]

Based on this former Harvard admissions interviewer, it is close to just that.  The interviewers have far more qualified candidates than they have spaces, so they do almost put the names in and pick.  They have some indistinct guidelines, but what they are looking for are not just the intelligent eggheads, but the kids most likely to succeed and that is a very subjective description to be distilled from a one hour interview.  This is a good read, especially if you have a teen just about to start applying and interviewing for a premier college/university soon.
[url]http://gawker.com/ivy-league-admissions-are-a-sham-confessions-of-a-harv-1690402410[/url][/quote]

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