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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]https://www.natesilver.net/p/go-to-a-state-school

I don't always agree with Nate Silver but I think he is spot on. I have interviewed several Ivy League grads that came across as entitled and coddled. I have to wonder if other hiring managers are seeing a similar trend.[/quote]

First, it is one opinion.

Second, he lists reasons that he thinks it makes sense, one of which is:
"I’d also tell them to go with the elite private college if (i) they had a high degree of confidence in what they wanted to do with their degree and (ii) it was in a field like law that regards the credential as particularly valuable."

Ivies and other T25 privates and also top publics do feed into pHDs and top Law and top Med schools (which feed to top cutting-edge medicine residencies) more than the schools ranked tiers below. Never mind careers. For kids who have the academic chops, want to be with a large group of similarly intelligent peers, and have big dreams/ goals of being a top researcher or big law or wall street dreams, a top school dramatically increases their chances.

Is Ivy better than UCB/UCLA? Yes but not by a margin that makes much of a difference. Is Ivy/elite private better than a state school ranked below T75? Yes. By a large margin. The peer groups and opportunities do not even compare. 
The splitting hairs over different Ivies and Hopkins vs Georgetown this thread does is ridiculous, but to pretend there is no difference and once can just go to any state school and all will end up the same is also ridiculous[/quote]

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