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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Nobody would ever claim there aren't successful alums from gigantic 10,000-40,000 student universities.

But it's like, great, you know one person from Indiana University who is a multi-millionaire? Good for him. Really. That's awesome. But that's one person. On average, from which school (Harvard or Indiana) would you say their respective graduates are enjoying better relative success? Since that data is readily available, let's take a look:

Kelley: https://kelley.iu.edu/recruiters-companies/graduate/_files/GCSEmploymentReport17-18.pdf
Harvard: http://ocs.fas.harvard.edu/files/ocs/files/final_20152016_annual_report.pdf

It's clearly Harvard. [b]To say that "it doesn't matter where you go to school" is objectively idiotic.[/b] So, brush up on those logical reasoning skills, too. Ever hear of a small sample size? An anecdote doesn't combat hard data.

Sharp parents pay big bucks to live in the tippy top public districts or claw their way into expensive premier privates to get a shot at the creme de la creme colleges. [b]The "only grad school matters" and "we're not into the rat race" memes are what parents tell themselves after they've raised merely average children. You're just trying to rationalize your underachieving kids.[/b][/quote]

God you really suck at this human being thing.  Really really suck.[/quote]

I love you. 
You win the Internet. [/quote]

When you have to work for someone else, I guess where you went to school matters.  I went to a third-tier state school in the Midwest.  DH comes from a developing country and went to graduate school at the same school, where we met.  He picked whichever school would give him the biggest scholarship that would get him to the US.  He's a serial tech entrepreneur who has founded and  sold three companies and is now a VC, making seven figures a year.  I'm also an entrepreneur in a different field who is slowing growing my profitable company.  I come from working-class immigrants who were also small business-owners.

Immigrants - we get the job done!  And like to work for ourselves.

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