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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Me and bro both went to UMD out of W high school. Both got into Ivies like Penn, Cornell, Columbia. Bro got into MIT and wait listed at Harvard. We both chose UMD for scholarships, he got a full ride. Afterwards we both went to top 10 law schools so don't knock it until you try it.[/quote]

I read in a recentish ny times article that when you look at the outcomes of people who got into highly competitive colleges (like Harvard/Yale/Princeton/Stanford) who did not matriculate for financial reasons for the most part statistically had the same life success as people who did attend an ivy--that is a good portion of the "success" that comes from attending an ivy is because it is a very self-selected pool of applicants who are very driven, and those people would do well wherever they attend.  However there was a caveat to this story--this trend did not hold up for racial minorities from poor backgrounds; when poor racial minorities, primarily black and hispanic applicants attended elite universities, the impact on their career was greater than less selective universities.[/quote]

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