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[quote=Anonymous]The advantages to a top college are many.  First there is the education.  Is an Ivy so much better or different that UVA?  Maybe not.  But it is so much better than other schools.  The course work is not the same at Yale and Towson -- and Towson is a good school.  More in depth, more thinking.  Second, it is the connections and relationships you can make.  Third it is what a PP said -- understanding what jobs or paths are out there.  You many never know at your local state school.  Next is the school's network.  Next is the cache you get from the school that continues far into your career.

Does that mean a Yale kid will have a better outcome than someone else?  No.  There are more pathways open to the Yale kid.  Yale kid may not take the right one or any of them.  Yale kid might not have taken advantage of any of the above and is has the same number of potential paths that a State U kid does.  Yale kid could just be a screw up or lazy.

And this is still America.  State U kid can do anything.  Kid can take paths open and be whatever.

But what cannot be denied is that the potential for the experience is better and the number of pathways open is greater coming from Yale and the like.[/quote]

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