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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I do care because I equate top schools with better opportunities. I know that my child wants a lifestyle that is at least the same as how they grew up (UMC) and a top school will make that more likely. Do you not care because you don’t care about those sorts of outcomes? [/quote]

How do you know a top school will make that outcome more likely? Your child could go to a less prestigious school and continue their UMC existence. [/quote]

It’s more likely because the kind of employers that pay really well routinely hire from top schools. While it’s certainly not impossible to achieve a UMC existence without a top school (and if that weren’t possible for my kid for whatever reason, I wouldn’t think that it couldn’t be achieved) , I don’t think anyone can reasonably argue that it’s not more likely. I understand that a top school is not dispositive of success but it’s one more thing that helps. [/quote]
 It's less about the school and more about the major they have there, if you are concerned about salary after graduation and you don't expect them to want to go to grad school. A math major, or stem major will have vastly more opportunities to make money after graduation from a state school or lesser known school than a social sciences major from an ivy league school.[/quote]

All “stem” majors are not created equally.  I think most folks equate stem with CS.  Bio, Chem, geology, etc.  do not pay as well as CS.[/quote]
 good point. So my point of major choice being most important (if not going to grad school and focused on income post graduation) is correct.[/quote]

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