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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I chose the full-tuition merit aid (many years ago) at a T75 university over an Ivy (with a little need-based aid). I was totally on my own to pay for college, so I couldn't see how I would be able to pay the difference. In retrospect I could have made it work. In terms of career and family life, I have done well, so it was a smart choice overall. I will confess (here) that I do sometimes get a chip on my shoulder when all the Ivy-degreed people around me make assumptions about me based on where I went to college. After all these years I should be way past that, but sometimes I am not.[/quote]

I've come to realize that it says so much more about them than me. Just had a dinner with a couple the other night and one of them attended Michigan Law. The dad graduated from an Ivy and he and another Ivy undergrad enrolled in the law program assumed that they would just smoke all their classmates from the Big 10 public universities. He said he realized after the humbling from his first test that the top students from public universities were as equally qualified if not more hungry than he and his fellow Ivy undergrad classmates.

I attended a small LAC for BA and went on to graduate near top of class at an Ivy for grad school. I don't bother to throw in the second point when folks respond with barely concealed derision about where I went to undergrad because it really is more about them cleaving onto a status due to lack of confidence or success in their subsequent lives. [/quote]

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