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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am not a troll. I’m the parent of a HS sophomore who is killing themselves excelling in school and participating in extracurriculars to be competitive for T20.

At the same time, I see parents on here posting how their kid went to Cornell and ended up in the same place as someone who went to Pitt or another similarly ranked school.

At the same time, in my job I work alongside people who have gone to ivies and schools I’ve never heard of. I went to Michigan, btw.

My sister did her undergraduate at Oxford, stayed in the UK and is now partner at a well respected consulting firm alongside other partners that went to no name schools from India.

So seeing the stress my kid goes through, I am honestly asking what is the point of a Yale or Princeton if they take you to the same place that a school like Rutgers and Radford can take you?! [/quote]

You premise is wrong.  An individual can absolutely end up in the same place.  But the average graduate does not and it is not even remotely close between Yale/Princeton and Rutgers/Radford.[/quote]

100% very important distinction, and it trickles down the line. Uchicago and BC are "closer" in rank than iv vs Rutgers, yet the average grad remains much different. That can matter for many students, they will be pushed by how ambitious the peers are. For other students they have their goals and stick to them even if the majority at their college are aiming a lot lower. Mine picked an ivy over a full ride to a T40 i part for that reason. 
And its been the right place for them: a large percentage are MD or md-phd bound, and through their 1 to 2 year older peers they have a network that has already been accepted to top med schools. It gives them on the ground insight from peers on what it takes, a different perspective than one gets from premed advising or profs. They had friends from high school go to the T40 and all they ever say is it is so hard, half drop after first year, almost no one makes it. Well almost everyone makes it into med school at the T10, and it is rare to drop for grade reasons because Cs are so rare. Med school is seen as almost inevitable as long as you work hard and listen to advice. Instead they push each other to try for the top Big Research Meds. ymmv. [/quote]

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