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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Undergrad prestige does NOT matter. At all. It’s been empirically proven. Smart kids do well anywhere, whether they’re at UMD or Stanford.

Dale and Kruger. Dale and Kruger. Dale and Kruger!!![/quote]

Where did Dale and Kruger go to school, choose to teach and then send their kids?[/quote]

Irrelevant to the outcome of their empirically demonstrated, reproduced, peer-reviewed research.[/quote]

The authors didn't even believe what they published. That seems relevant to me.[/quote]

First, the decisions they made for themselves were made before the research was done.

Second, you have no idea why they chose to teach where they did.

And finally, you don't understand the research. Nothing in it implied or stated that elite colleges are harmful to outcomes. I don't know where their kids went, but if it was to elite schools, I'm confident they would have been just as happy if their kids didn't get in because they knew that the opportunities they had would have been the same.[/quote]

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