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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I did. I think ultimately it doesn’t make that much of a difference in most fields, if you’re at a school that is on some level “too easy” for your intellectual gifts you should end up doing super well there, which positions you pretty well for the next step.  In my case, I got a lot of attention from professors who enjoyed working with a student that was way more talented than usual for them, so my education didn’t suffer that much other than that my inherent laziness meant i could mail it in in classes that I wasn’t interested in.  Grad school can clean up any prestige deficit, in fields where that matters.  You can push yourself arbitrarily hard in the extracurriculars you have extra time for because the classes are easier.  You take a bit of a networking hit because you aren’t surrounded by a bunch of high fliers, but there are smart and capable people even at lower tier schools, and you end up finding them. And if you are a bit of a late bloomer, being a large fish in a small pond can have some benefits from a developmental perspective.[/quote]

The above is wise and true based on what I have seen.

You can also be a mediocre student and do very well if you have charisma.

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