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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Lets not forget that any mediocre college is good enough to get you in some medical school. However, lots of college students change majors and tracks, which makes an overall good college a necessity. What if he decides he loves computers or law or business. For those, [b]mediocre colleges are rather limiting[/b].[/quote]

Not necessarily--most evidence shows that it's the students that make the school not the school that makes the student.  So a good student can still thrive as a big fish in a small pond at a "mediocre college" if they happen to change their minds.  The caliber of different colleges is not as diverse as people think--it's not like the best professors are at the best schools--it's competitive to get a tenured position anywhere and people go where the opening is in their field when they graduate and tend to stay there a long time.  If you control for 'student quality' at admissions, there are very few differences in outcomes based on college/school as long as you stay within the top 100-150 of national universities or top 100 national liberal arts colleges.

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