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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DCUM loafers above are already showing their better than thou attitudes.

No, fit is not overrated - just wait till one of your kids is miserable and depressed at the wrong school.

Yes, super smart kids often attend the most party heavy schools. [/quote]

People focus on fit when their kid can't get into a top 20 school.  Sorry.  Poor people say money can't buy you happiness.  Of course it does.  Vacations, nice restaurants, etc.  It buys experiences which has been shown to be linked to happiness.  I don't have enough money so I am not happy as I could be.  I have some but not enough. [/quote]

People focus on rankings more than fit when the care about their own egos more than their kids' well-being.[/quote]

Or maybe when they care about career opportunities ?[/quote]

If you take full advantage of what's offered, career opportunities are the same regardless of whether you attend a school ranked in the top 10 or one ranked 50-100.[/quote]

really? top 50-100 will offer same opportunity as top 10? you believe that?

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Yes. Choose almost any profession and look at where the leadership attended college. Read Where You Go is not Who You'll Be. Look at the study by Krueger and Dale regarding lifetime earnings.

Of course I'm not saying the AVERAGE graduate of a top 50-100 college will have the same opportunities, but that has nothing to do with the college they attend--it's because they're not as capable on average. But people with the same ability and ambition achieve at the same level from a huge variety of colleges. Joe Biden went to Delaware. Kamala Harris went to Howard. Tim Cook (Apple) went to Auburn. It's not because the went to these schools that they've achieved so highly, it's because of who they are as a person. The same is true for George W. Bush, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg. 
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