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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP doesn't know what the word "prestige" means.

An electrical lineman might make $250k a year, and it's a cool job. But it is not "prestigious".[/quote]

+1  Salary doesn't equal prestige.

A professor teaching your kid may make 150K a year.  A government employee influencing US health policy at NIH may make 175K a year.  A Pulitzer prize winning journalist may make 80k a year.  A person running an NGO saving lives may make 60K a year.  These are prestigious jobs that get the most talented thinkers, in my opinion. You're more likely to get them coming out of an Ivy than Rice (although Rice is also a good school).   But if you equate prestige only to $, enjoy your life choices.  You can make even more money selling drugs, and even though that's illegal, that's "prestigious" by the OP's definition.[/quote]
This is moving the goal posts these grads are all getting similar types of jobs. Most go into finance or consulting of some sort. This is a Deloitte vs BCG type of difference. [/quote]

It's not moving the goal posts. You're looking at average data, and you've decided that because Rice grads make more on average than some Ivy grads that they have jobs of greater prestige.

I did not look at the data, but I would take an educated guess that a higher share of Ivy grads are pursuing doctorates than Vanderbilt grads.  So when you conflate income with success or prestige, because the Harvard grads are being a post-doc somewhere for 50K a year and bringing down the income average, you're missing the fact that the post-doc may one day win a Nobel Prize finding a cure for cancer, which is a lot more prestigious than working for Deloitte.[/quote]

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