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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think you can widen your perspective as to what is a "good" college. I think if you are a parent who went to a highly ranked school (which you probably wouldn't have gotten into today) it can be harder to accept that lots of colleges can lead to a solid career and a happy life but that is the reality. Give yourself some credit that your success was not about you than your specific college.

DH and I both went to regional public universities and have done well. I had to turn down big name schools because of the cost. Now I see that HS classmates who went to those seem to be doing about the same. I also see that my work peers went to a wide range of colleges. My kids will be fine.[/quote]

Totally agree with this.  I went to an ivy league, but followed my passions into a city government job where I've been since 2007.  I love it.  I'm surrounded by colleagues with a variety of educational paths, including other "top" colleges, city and state schools, etc.  We have a passion for the work in common and there is probably a correlation between the top college graduates and success within the bureaucracy of city gov, but I wouldn't credit the college on their resume, per se, with that correlation.  I think I would have ended up at the same place with the same salary if I'd gone to any number of lower tier and less expensive schools.  I want to make that clear to my kids![/quote]

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