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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Maybe my experience is dated, but I am very surprised at how little credit people give to "brand name" schools, especially if you are studying something not specifically job oriented.  I was a liberal arts major at Brown in the 80's, and went to Yale Law in the early 90's, and those names alone have opened many doors for me.

Obviously it does you no good if you go to Penn undergrad, spend all that money, and then jerk around for four years.  But if you do well, you are way ahead of the game.[/quote]

Honestly I think these days people don't want to admit it -- because it is so hard to get in and to pay for it, so you get a lot more "oh it doesn't matter where you go to school; no one asks after a yr or two anyway -- it's all about work experience." I frankly have heard this from adults who separately when talking about their own careers have said how having Wharton or MIT or wherever has gotten them an interview or an offer they otherwise wouldn't have had -- and I don't mean a first offer, I mean one when they're 40 or 50 and switching gears on their career. I think it's just about not building up expectations for parents or kids -- and not wanting to feel "obligated" to spend 60k+/yr when there's a much cheaper in state option.[/quote]

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