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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I love reading NYT comments:

“A few years back while working at a Wall Street firm, we had summer interns from Columbia, Amherst, Princeton and the University of Florida all vying for one offer. The kid from the U of F got the job and it wasn’t close. So much better prepared, so much less entitled, and just as smart.

As for the notion that there are schools that give out golden tickets, rest assured that is utter baloney, but it persists. The best of the best don’t need the school (Gates, Zuckerberg, Jobs) anyway. It is merely a heuristic for our lazy minds.

With college applications/demand and costs soaring as well as certain cohorts being given priority at the most “elite” schools while supply has not changed, great candidates are cascading down to the supposed next tier of university. The net result will over time be a much wider array of top schools - and that is a good thing. Go and look at the reputation change at BC, Northeastern and so many others over the past 30 years, cause it is jaw dropping. This trend will persist.

Tim Cook went to Auburn, Michael Dell went to Texas, Mark Cuban went to Indiana, etc and there are tons of other non Ivy, MIT, Stanford success stories”[/quote]

Cook has an MBA from Duke. These three examples are outliers. It's like saying that Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg dropped out of college so why get a degree?[/quote]

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