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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Maybe it's too early to tell or maybe she just didn't capitalize on all the opportunities (I suspect very few do) but it most certainly has not [i]changed her life[/i]. The thing I do notice is overall a higher percentage of deeply committed pre-med students than my son's peers at the state flagship. Other than that there's this laughable idea that an elite college is a golden ticket to a $150,000 job offer and a rich spouse and that's just not accurate. The plum six-figure job offers are scarce and go to the connected and elbowy overachievers with perfect grades. And generally the rich socialize with the rich. If you want your child in that orbit they need to be in that orbit by 9th grade at some ritzy prep or boarding school.

I have a niece at Cornell who is close with my daughter and she has had a similar experience. At Cornell the rich are in the rich kid sororities and fraternities.

A few years back we were caught up in the admissions frenzy but in retrospect it seems so nutty. I'm [now] far more impressed with a parent who tells me their kid is at a less selective school but just got into medical school than some Ivy League parent who tells me their ubiquitous kid is going into "consulting" for $60,000 a year or some second rate grad program.[/quote]

Showy parents will brag about the prestigious college acceptance, they'll brag about move-in, they might even brag about a sophomore year study abroad trip. But then the bragging stops because there's nothing to brag about. Their kid was quickly humbled and will end up in the same 9 to 5 hybrid workplace gig any state schooler can get.[/quote]

I have noticed this! [/quote]

The most popular landing places for UPenn grads are nursing positions and vague analyst and consulting roles. These outcomes look like any state flagship.
https://careerservices.upenn.edu/post-graduate-outcomes/undergraduate-first-destinations/[/quote]

These “vague analyst and consulting roles” disproportionately hire from Ivies. [/quote]

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