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[quote=Anonymous]If your kid is killing themselves, it may not be worth it. Why torture yourself through high school and college?

On the other hand, if they love the academic challenge and aspire to be with others of a similar intellect and those who are also highly ambitious, the college environment and classes of Yale or Princeton will be significantly more stimulating than at an average school. The classes will be more rigorous and interesting. The goals of those around you and the access to opportunities will be different. Your access to top-tier graduate schools will be different. Your immediate access to prestige-conscious jobs will be different.

But, there are ways it won’t be different. For whatever job you land, your salary will be the same as others in that role. If you return to a hometown with few high-level, high-compensation opportunities, you may not experience career results better than local graduates. If you don’t care about prestige careers or graduate school, much of the cache of top schools will be wasted. In this case, you’ve primarily gained an amazing, eye-opening life experience that will last a lifetime, but will also make you feel a bit odd in an average town.

In sum, you’ll always have the experience, but most who attend such schools are smart AND ambitious. For the ambitious, the school credentials fast-track them to better career and graduate schools opportunities. It’s not that kids from other schools can’t get to the same place as kids from prestigious colleges, but it may take longer (smart and ambitious kids go to a variety of schools). [/quote]

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