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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I do care because I equate top schools with better opportunities. I know that my child wants a lifestyle that is at least the same as how they grew up (UMC) and a top school will make that more likely. Do you not care because you don’t care about those sorts of outcomes? [/quote]

How do you know a top school will make that outcome more likely? Your child could go to a less prestigious school and continue their UMC existence. [/quote]

It’s more likely because the kind of employers that pay really well routinely hire from top schools. While it’s certainly not impossible to achieve a UMC existence without a top school (and if that weren’t possible for my kid for whatever reason, I wouldn’t think that it couldn’t be achieved) , I don’t think anyone can reasonably argue that it’s not more likely. I understand that a top school is not dispositive of success but it’s one more thing that helps. [/quote]
This is simply not true. Some of the most successful people I know went to no-name state schools. And I also know Ivy grads who have done nothing with their lives. It’s not the school that counts. It’s the ambition, drive, perseverance and grit of the student that makes the difference. [/quote]

+100

The Dale and Kruger study already shows that IT DOESN’T MATTER. All the hand-wringing on DCUM over the Ivies is useless. [/quote]

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