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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The answer is “yes,” but 99 percent of posters want it to be “no.”[/quote]

You’ve got it reversed.  The college obsessed parents here want assurances that their kids will remain at the top of the pecking order in a country that is shifting in many ways toward greater equality.  Thus, they need to believe that a stamp from a top school will be the magic item to assure that.  It is weird.[/quote]

Nah. If you observe patterns over the last decade and even in the last couple of years, it is students and young people themselves who are placing ever higher premiums on the value of a T20. The amount of hype is unbelievable. Look at the rise of reaction videos, the flaunting of school names on social media (something that would have been considered gauche in my time), the explosion of popularity of student-run communities like A2C, and that's just what you see online. You're just projecting your own insecurities.[/quote]

How could that be when I graduated from such a place?  I’m just not a cheerleader for the status quo.[/quote]

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