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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ivies have always been primarily for the wealthy,  athletes and nepos.  If you are not one of those with a ivy degree, it's just a degree same as from State U. [/quote]

Posts like this are using assumptions based on the Ivies from 30 years ago when the typical student was a nicely UMC kid from a nice UMC family living in a nice UMC suburb, who probably represented 60% of the student body, with 20% very connected, whether rich families or super connected quasi famous professional parents, and 20% on full financial aid first Gen/URM. Outcomes from those years skew the middle as the input, so to speak, came out from the middle. The outcome from that bottom 20% is really all over the place, some went on to do incredibly well, using the Ivy degree as a ticket. Others did not.

These days the Ivies are closer to an bimorphoc model, you are either rich/connected full tuition or first gen/URM.  I do think this implies the average outcome going forward will dip somewhat as the trajectory of the bottom 50% is more unpredictable. [/quote]

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