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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Harvard College was a life-changing experience for me.  Ended up in a different profession, married someone I wouldn’t otherwise have met, moved to a different part of the country, and have a much higher SES than my parents or sibs do.  Already seeing second gen effects as well.  True for DH as well. 
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Williams College was a life-changing experience for me.  Ended up in a different profession, married someone I wouldn’t otherwise have met, moved to a different part of the country, and have a much higher SES than my parents or sibs do.  Already seeing second gen effects as well.  True for DH as well.

See how that works.  Plug in any top 20 college.   [/quote]

Not necessarily — 3 of our sibs went to top 20 colleges and none of them were upwardly mobile.  One did marry a classmate.

That said, whether you’re going to be upwardly mobile depends on where you start out (held constant wrt sibs, which is why I mentioned those outcomes).  Harvard College wouldn’t be life-changing for our kid, for example.  I’m not Ivy-obsessed, but I do think that Harvard, Stanford, and MIT are game changers for many (especially non-UMC and/or URM) undergrads in a way that other schools are not.  So I get why some parents covet them.  [/quote]

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