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[quote=Anonymous]Because people tie a prestigious diploma to better quality of life, which doesn't necessarily mean more money, OP, but more stability and protection from downward mobility. It means an easier time getting, and keeping, jobs, and more choice in jobs. My friends with Ivy League degrees or the foreign equivalent (who all know they might not have gotten in today), have had a much easier time getting job interviews than the ones without fancy degrees. Their careers have by and large been more "prestigious" in their chosen fields, even when those fields are not money-making. My husband and I are research scientists, which is not a profession you go into to become rich. If you graduate from an Ivy or similar, you get your pick of post-docs and access to the most interesting labs; and you ever want to switch labs, you can more easily get a new job at another successful lab. [/quote]
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