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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP you have fallen for the falsehood that going to an "elite" school somehow means you got a different education and should be walking a different road than everyone else.

The reason certain schools have an elite reputation has nothing to do with the education one receives there, nor with the future accomplishments of the majority of the graduates. Most are sitting in the cubicle next to the state school grad taking orders from the small regional college grad.[/quote]

This could not be further from the truth.  It is not a falsehood.  That does not mean every grad but for the overwhelming number they did get a different education.  Don’t fool or lie to yourself.  Most are on a different road.  No most do not do the same things.  [/quote]

No, you’re 100% wrong. Where you go to college has ZERO bearing on your long-term earnings. The Dale and Kruger study proved it. So yes, actually, the Ivy grads do indeed do the same things as state school grads. [/quote]

DP: No, YOU’RE wrong.  The part you seem to be missing is that there are other aspects to education besides “long term earnings”.  It’s fine, of course, if that’s your goal, and that’s how you choose to measure the value of your education.  There are, however, other possible metrics.

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That’s what people say who want to equate value to something subjective.

If you went to an Ivy there is no way to possibly measure whatever it is that you feel you got out of that against the scenario that you’d have gone to a different school. There are too many factors to consider to measure it even against people with similar backgrounds and occupations who did or did not go to those schools. There are multiple Ivy League schools. People don’t rank them all the same way and their ranks are changed over time so we’d have to consider when someone graduated and whixh degree they obtained.

There is subjective value placed on various degrees and colleges. There are schools, well known and not well known, held in high regard, that aren’t in that group of schools simply because they’re not located there and/or are not as old. There are schools that few people consider with very well regarded programs for their field (think of Webb for Naval Architecture).

I’m sorry, Ivy League, aside from perhaps some networking and your own egos, there is little to measure that you can prove on a format such as this one. We can’t measure the feeling you have when you say you went there.

Whatever you learned there, I hope it was not data analysis.

Also, this thread is PACKED with comments about how people who went to these schools aren’t living the life they were promised in their own head. This argument of other measures only appears when that other argument is clearly lost. 
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