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[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]

OP, what you and others seem to be upset about is that the rules of the game have changed. Our kids compete in a global market place. A few decades ago, no way or very unlikely someone with a degree from a no name Indian university would be in the same room with an Oxbridge or Ivy grad because there were barriers in place - immigration laws, pedigree mattered more and, of course, racism played a part. Today, a lot of these barriers are down. Companies can bring in foreign employees relatively easily, companies recruit more widely and pedigree is not as important, etc. as a result, many more Indian/Pakistani/whatever kids end up in the same room with American kids from top colleges. I say this as the executive of a global professional services firm. I have seen the shift and it’s a pronounced one. And you know what companies like mine have found out? That often the Indian kid from the no name school is just as smart as the Stanford kid but is hungrier and willing to work harder. So it’s not just that top talent is not concentrated at top schools, top talent is everywhere and companies face few barriers in sourcing it. As I said, today our kids are competing in a global labour market. [/quote]

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